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--- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:12:27 -0400 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus@well.com> Subject: Caesar's wife alleged in link to porn sites... It's worth noting here the bizarre little tiff between Virginia gubernatorial candidates Mark Earley and Mark Warner. Earley returned a campaign donation from Bruce Waldack; he's urging Warner to return a donation from Bill Melton. Earley returned the Waldack donation because Waldack's current company, Thruport Technologies, has sold ad management software to a porn site; Waldack made his big money as the founder of digitalNation... Thruport's products are pretty catholic, as everyone from porn to county government sites use ad management software. Melton, of course, was the founder of CyberCash... Earley apparently has it on good authority that CyberCash's electronic payment services have been used by (brace yourself) porn sites! Most recent Washington Post coverage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38931-2001Jun7.html It's only fair to note that many of us here in the DC-area may have attended netpreneur-related events sponsored by either of the two ruffians (not Earley and Warner: Waldack and Melton) cited above; if you're a regular NPR listener, you've probably been tainted by Waldack's sponsorial largesse in that department as well. You might wish to make a note of these possible controversial entanglements, for disclosure as warranted by future political ambitions. Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------