Congratulations LYCOS!

Lycos removes support for Envirolink Official, 8/15/98
Radical Animal Rights Entities Threaten Legal Action!

See Off-road.com's Official Policy Statement on the environment.
See the Threat of Libel Suite by the Animal, Liberation Frontline.
See the "Wired News" Article detailing the spin at Lycos and Envirolink. New, 8/15/98.
See C|Net's article "Lycos ends environment site alliance". New, 8/15/98.
See the Friends of Envirolink "What you can do" Page.
See Lycos and EnviroLink have a parting of the ways by Animal Rights Net.
See Envirolink's position on hosting web sites operated by convicted criminals.
Hate Group in action, Animal Liberation Frontline Services at "www.animal-liberation.net" which, is housed and supported by Envirolink [See Traceroute] are identified as authors of an anonymous message to USENET which contained personal contact information on the Presidents of both Off-Road.com and Lycos.
Off-Road.com has received a half dozen, or so email messages from various Envirolink supporters. The general comments are "Censorship" and damage to sensible environmental groups that may loose their free web site hosting service if Envirolink folds. We'd like to take a moment to answer such accusations and concerns.
Censorship:: Off-Road.com does not practice censorship. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913).
censorship n 1: counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy [syn: {censoring}, {security review}] 2: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances [syn: {censoring}]
Off-Road.com presented the content of Envirolink's server to the management of Lycos, and CMG Information Systems with cc to Mr. Josh Knauer, the President of Envirolink on July 10th, 1998.
Loss of free services to sensible Environmental Groups: There are numerous, non-profit and, "for profit" hosting services which offer free services to sensible causes. The largest is the Association for Progressive Communications. Certainly, the more generic free services abound at such sites as GEOCITIES and TRIPOD.
CLICK HERE to see the Original Off-road.com Article.
'Want to comment on the article or the threat of lawsuit against Off-Road.com?
CLICK HERE to post to a special, Interactive Bulletin Board on this subject.

FYI, the charter for the NC-Alerts mailing lists is as follows.
Welcome to NC-Alerts, the e-mail alert service operated by the volunteer staff of NO COMPROMISE: The Militant, Direct Action Magazine of Grassroots Animal Liberationists & Their Supporters. This list will NOT be used for discussion, organizing, debate or argument. Instead it will be used as a complement to existing lists which specialize in these areas. The purpose of NC-Alerts is to provide subscribers with up to date action alerts, with info on such things as the jailing of AR activists and what can be done to help support them. For more detailed information check out the No Compromise website at: http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/nocompromise/

The Post the the NC-Alert list is as follows:
Date: 13 Aug 1998 01:44:59 -0000 From: No Compromise Save Address Block Sender To: NC-Alerts@waste.org Subject: NC : Envirolink Action Alert! Forward from the administrator of Animal Rights Resource Site: Due to a recent article published on the web, http://www.off-road.com/media/lycos.html, Lycos has decided to drop its corporate sponsorship of Envirolink. What does this mean? Basically, Envirolink has funds for two months of operation. This will mean no more hosting of Animal Rights organizations, both national and grassroots (including No Compromise, the ALF Info Site and others), as well as e-mail lists. Individual donations would be helpful, but that is not what this is about. We are forming a network to support Envirolink. Envirolink needs: 1) Legal help and funding for a libel suit against OFF-ROAD.COM. 2) A letter writing campaign to Lycos, http://www.lycos.com/, asking them to reconsider their support for Envirolink. In return, individuals may promise to use the Lycos search engine over others as well as possible support of Lycos' sponsors. 3) Seek new corporate sponsorship of Envirolink should Lycos not 4) Support of Envirolink sponsors. This is a long range project and not as urgent as the others. Please begin considering how to help in this effort and whether you wish to lend support. Also, write envirolink a short note, supporting them and thanking them for hosting all the wonderful sites. The EnviroLink Network 4618 Henry Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-683-6400 Fax: 412-683-8460 E-MAIL: support@envirolink.org

Basis of Anonymous USENET Posting by "Animal Liberation Frontline".


Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:47:12 -0500
From: frontline@rocketmail.com
To: frontline-news@waste.org
Subject: Frontline: Off-road.com and Lycos Support Internet Censorship
The following post was recived anonymously, we urge all of our
readers to write Lycocos a letter today:
Off-road.com and Lycos Support Internet Cencorship
10 short days after Off-Road.com published a scathing slanderous attack
on the server Envirolink.org and several of its hosted environmental
and animal rights web sites, Lycos decided to drop its corporate
sponsorship of Envirolink.
The issue is NOT whether you care about the environment or animal
rights but about Internet cencorship and and free expression on the
Internet. What is next to be attacked?
Speak out for free speech on the Internet while you can, or it may be
gone one day.
For more information on this check out the Friends of Envirolink site
at http://www.waste.org/~oak/
 Help Fight Internet Censorship  Support Envirolink Today:
@ Write a letter to Lycos asking them to reconsider their support for
Envirolink and ask them to not support Internet censorship.
 Mr. Bob Davis, President Lycos, Inc.
 400-2 Totten Pond Road
 Waltham, MA 02154
 781 (Edited by ORC)
 rdavis@lycos.com
Other contacts at Lycos:
 CUSTOMER SERVICE: webmaster@lycos.com
 INVESTOR RELATIONS QUESTIONS: investor-relations@lycos.com
 PRESS INQUIRIES: press@lycos.com
For more contacts at lycos and sample letters visit the Friends of
Envirolink site http://www.waste.org/~oak/
@ Let off-road.com know what you think of their attempts to censor the
Internet.
 Patrick Chicas                Norm Lenhart
 President                     VP Operations, Managing Editor
 pjc@off-road.com              lenhart@off-road.com
 (Edited by ORC) St.,          lenhart@ctaz.com
 (Edited by ORC), HI   808 6(Edited by ORC)
 808 6(Edited by ORC)
Other contacts at off-road.com:
 estaff@off-road.com
 info@off-road.com
 sales@off-road.com
--
On the front lines,
Animal Liberation Frontline Information Service
http://www.animal-liberation.net/   <--- NOTE NEW URL
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Traceroute showing that www.animal-liberation.net is hosted by Envirolink.


orc ~/ traceroute www.animal-liberation.net
traceroute to animal-liberation.net (208.195.208.29), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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10  stargate-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.33.22)  248 ms *  157 ms
11  envirolink-gw.tcg.sgi.net (208.195.209.250)  167 ms  176 ms 177 ms
12  manatee.envirolink.org (208.195.208.7)  169 ms *  252 ms

AOL Message by Envirolink President, Joshua Knauer.


Date: Wed, Feb 11, 1998 19:33 EST
From: Envirolink
Message-id: <19980212003300.TAA25015@ladder03.news.aol.com>> You cannot even tell if these organizations are run by criminals.> You let our children be propagandized by felons and you have no idea.
Which organizations are you speaking of?  EnviroLink hosts hundreds
of non-profit organizations, and we don't care whether the people
that run them have criminal records or not.  EnviroLink is similar
to a library, we do not judge or have any control over the authors of
information that non-profit organization's put up on the web.  Whether
or not their info is true, false, or written by felons, this is the
United States of America, and the last time
I checked EVERYONE here has the right to express their opinions.
I checked EVERYONE here has the right to express their opinions.
If you now have a problem with the US Constitution, I encourage you
to join your local militia and do something about it.  I personally
love our Constitution and will ardently defend the rights guaranteed
in it while I still have a few breaths in my body.
-josh
----
Executive Director
The EnviroLink Network
http://www.envirolink.org

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