CyberWire Dispatch, officially launched in January of this year,
has rapidly gained recognition as a hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners
news service that concentrates on issues relevant to Cyberspace.

Dispatch now has its own mailing list:  CWD-L@CYBERWERKS.COM
 
Dispatch is written by Brock N. Meeks as a free service for the
Net community at large.  Dispatch offers commentary, investigations
and hard news relevant to issues of the day.  Meeks brings to
Dispatch his skills as a daily reporter with more than 10 of
experience on the Internet.  To produce Dispatch he uses the same
journalistic guidelines and ethics have brought him journalism
awards in 7 of the last 10 years, including a National Press Club
journalism prize awarded him last week.

Using his reporting and investigative skills to dig into the murky,
often confusing waters awash on the Internet today, Brock's Dispatch
articles often bring these stories to the Net well ahead of the
major daily newspapers.

A sampling of the stories Dispatch has broken this year:
 
 -- Investigation into the International Internet Association
 -- Renewed push by FBI for its Digital Wiretap bill
 -- Clinton Administration's support for "front loading" information
    superhighway with eavesdropping technologies
 -- Flaws in the FBI's confidential cost/analysis of its Wiretap bill
 -- FBI plans to install "easy access" wiretap software on telephone network
 -- Clinton Administration's Plan to back FBI wiretap bill
 -- National Security Agency withheld from public known flaws in Clipper
    Chip
 
Until now, however, Dispatch has had only limited distribution,
depending instead on its readers to circulate the articles throughout
the Net.  With today's announcement, Dispatch now has its own
mailing list, with back issues archived on gopher and World-Wide
Web servers at Liberty Hill Cyberwerks.  These are accessible by typing:

    gopher cyberwerks.com

and choosing "CyberWire Dispatch, by Brock N. Meeks" or by opening the URL

    http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire

from within your favorite Web browser.

The Dispatch mailing list is ONE WAY, receive ONLY.  That means
when you subscribe, you get only the news.  No noise.  No cross-talk,
no chatter.  You can send feedback directly to Brock at
"brock@well.sf.ca.us" for comments or questions.

Dispatch is distributed free of charge.  To subscribe, send a
message to

    majordomo@cyberwerks.com

with

    subscribe cwd-l

as the first line of your message.

Brock is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist working for _Communications
Daily_, a daily newsletter covering the telecommunications industry.
With more than 10 years of experience on the Net, Brock publishes
Dispatch as a service for the Net community at-large.  Brock is
solely responsible for CyberWire Dispatch.  His efforts are in no
way associated with _Communications Daily_ or its owner, Warren
Publishing, Inc.

Liberty Hill Cyberwerks is a San Francisco-based Internet education,
consulting, and storefront firm.  Its principal, Eric Theise, is
co-founder of Bay Area Internet Literacy, co-host of The WELL's
Internet and news conferences, and a frequent contributor to Wired,
Matrix News, and FringeWare Review.  Write him at verve@cyberwerks.com