Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:36:57 +0100
To: RTMark admin <admin@rtmark.com>
From: net_CALLBOY <hans@ubermorgen.com>
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>shit.. just saw that i typed 1970 and not 1790.. fax is through.. hehehe. shit..

oh, that's exactly the same as it turns out! andreas is an expert on both subjects.

hehehe.. i laughed my ass off when i saw.. sure andreas is specialized on both
periods.. the long one and the short onw HAHAHA..

>anyway..
>
>today, did a nice abc-radio interview, james was first, i was second.. i was drunk slightly and outside of bar.. in the wind blowing into the microphone of mobile.. a good one!

perfect!! abc the australian radio?

american ABC radio..
some nice talk host..

h_e
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:48:21 +0100
To: RTMark admin <admin@rtmark.com>, baumgj@rpi.edu From: net_CALLBOY <hans@ubermorgen.com>
Subject: Re: Press release 3: ray edit 2: hans comment Cc: frank guerrero <frank@rtmark.com>, ccutter@schwartz-pr.com, willworkforfood@hotmail.com Bcc:
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>It will be at least a couple of days before the database stuff is working so it wouldn't hurt to hold off until then.
>

thats good.. i think its not urgent to
bring out a press.release.. story is
still hot, and its good if its rolling
by itself.. better dynamic.. better
spread over time,, elections only coming in 2-3 months? man, the story will
burn if we can keep it up!!!

as soon as it gets a bit dry, we should push the release in there... maybe in a week, maybe in 2-3 weeks..

i would try to compress the text.. its a bit too much.. take out lotza unnecessary words, work out the juicy parts and cut
the not-so-important parts..

i would also make a remark about the german and UK market.. we want to go in there
because they are both big markets and they have pretty similar situations there.., with tons of money on campaigns [dont forget the kohl financing scandal running currently! its all about covered up private and corporate financing, he lost his whole reputation that he gained by reuniting germany.. he is a looser now because of this.. ---hehehe.---];

otherwise..

will see that i take some time to go intensly over it and give some feedback,

let me know about the time frame..

hans_e


>>
>>
>>Voteauction.com relaunches under new ownership with new added features. 
>>
>>----
>>Election industry leader, voteauction.com, the first website to cut out the middleman and bring campaign contributions directly to the public, is re-launching to better serve the voting public. 
>>
>>Voteauction.com was launched on August 1 with the simple idea of bringing the big money of campaign contributions directly to the voting public. "When I saw that I would have to choose between Bush and Gore this year, I felt like staying home on election day," said Voteauction.com founder, James Baumgartner. "Then I heard about the hundreds of millions of dollars that the candidates have raised for this election and I realized that my vote is worth a lot of money. There are millions of people like me, and voteauction.com will help us earn money from our voting power."
>>
>>After receiving a warning from the New York City Election Commission, Baumgartner decided to shut down the site. Not only is selling your vote illegal in New York, even offering your vote for sale is a felony. But even while voteauction.com was shut down, it was featured in the media, including wirednews.com, cnn.com, NY1 News, abcnews.com, and Minnesota Public Radio, among others.
>>
>
>I guess that's kind of an awkward sentence getting back to the stuff about the media. Perhaps some of the bigger media references should be put in a list at the top?

you mean totally separately? that would be unorthodox--i think it's ok as is, but keep only the important ones: maybe something like "it was being featured on television (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN) and in print (AP, USA Today, New York Times, etc.)."

>>
>>News about the site attracted the attention of Austrian entrepreneur Hans Bernhard, who made an offer to purchase voteauction.com. "As America continues to develop industries in new areas, this presents many opportunities for the foreign investor, " Bernhard said. "I believe that voteauction.com, as a technological pioneer in the elections industry, will be a great complement to other emerging American investment opportunities in the Corrections and Education industries." 
>
>Perhaps the "Genetic Information Industry" sounds a bit too fake. I am sure that it will come along in the next couple of years now that the Human Genome Project is wrapping up.

yeah, it doesn't ring a bell offhand

>>Bernard is an e-commerce innovator whose meteoric business successes have combined an ability to marry emergent technologies with social needs. "I look for areas where new technologies can capitalize on social needs arising from de-regulation and privitization while simultaneously providing a service to individuals disenfranchised by the privitization process," says Bernhard, 

privatization

>>"Voteauction.com represents a new paradigm in the election process where voters and campaign investors can come together directly." 
>
>Although I like using "win-win" I wonder if anyone really says that anymore. Instead, I like the other business buzzword favorite, "Paradigm." 
>
>
>>
>>
>>Now under new ownership, voteauction.com promises improved features. 
>
>>First there is the Voteauction Action Team (VAT.) VAT allows users to cash 

(VAT).

>>in on their voting capital while avoiding the volitility of the 

volatility

>>voteauction.com market. VAT members will be able to download promotional material and graphics from the voteauction.com website. They can then market their votes directly to the campaign investors in their area. This will allow them to market their vote not only for President, but for any number of local and state elections. It will also help the campaign investor avoid the usual 10-15% overhead charged by most political consultants. VAT membership and all downloads will be provided free of charge. 

you should explain why people would do this--actually, to tell the truth, i don't quite understand this VAT thing.... needs to be clearer i think. 

>>Secondly, there is the Voteauction.com message board. This public forum will allow voteauction.com supporters and detractors to post their views on the voteauction.com mission. Voteauction.com has received many email supporting what we are trying to accomplish. We feel that a public message board is the best way for people to express their support or their [what's a better word than disgust?] of voteauction.com
>
>that could use a little more fleshing out. 

yes--will re-look after it's fleshed out. 

ray

>yeah, the rest of it is junk as far as a press release goes. Most of it has a place on the website but not here
>
>>Until recently, the Election Industry was controlled by an exclusive group of political consultants. These consultants spend the campaign contributors' money on advertising while taking a 10-15% cut for .......
>
>James
>

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:01:43 +0100
To: Shane Mayer <shanemayer42@yahoo.com> From: net_CALLBOY <hans@ubermorgen.com>
Subject: Re: Database for voteauction.com Cc:
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Hans,

hi shane

no pro at all...

you have ssh access with
votauction as login and
the pwd you use for ftp/email, etc..
have to find out if you need
special mysql password..
check it out and we talk tomorrow..

time difference is +6 hours east-coast
and +9 hours west-coast, means
if you have lunch-time on the east
cost we have 6pm, lunchtime west coast
9pm

ciao
hans_e



Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I'm working on another project that consumes my daytime. Do you know what our time difference is (I think its 6 hours), I'll try calling you tomorrow in (my) morning.

Actually, cgi-bin isn't an issue any more. I modified the pages to use php instead, since you have it installed.

MySQL access would be great! If I could get ssh access and a database to work on it would my life alot easier. I can also send you table definitions if that would be easier.

Sorry about that returned email. That was me. I forgot to change an email address in a php script I uploaded.

I'll contact you tomorrow.

peace.
Shane


--- net_CALLBOY <hans@ubermorgen.com> wrote: 
>>Hans,
>
>hey shane
>
>good to meet you!
>
>>I am helping out James with VoteAuction.com and I 
>have
>>a few questions about the availability of cgi-bin 
>and
>>databases.
>
>kewl!
>
>>1. I saw that there is access to php3 on the site. Do we have access to a cgi-bin directory? Some of 
>the
>>pages are already designed to use CGI, it just 
>makes
>>my life easier.
>
>cgi directory is:
>/usr/lib/cgi-bin
>
>but you dont have permission to write there as user: voteauction.
>
>i think the best would be if you could call me right now.. i would give you the super- user password temporarily, you set it up and i change it back.
>
>its a bit critical because this is our
>most important server [front-end web-server]; but if you can do pretty fast.. no pro.. just be very carefull...
>
>call me and i give you su pass:
>+436769300061
>
>>2. Do you have a database I could access? All I 
>need
>>is a couple of tables to hold e-mail addresses and some demographic information. Again this would 
>make
>>managing the site easier.
>
>there is MySQL running.. sure, you can use it for this...
>
>ok, also.. it would be good to have icq comm when you work on it.. so you can ask me stuff. its a debian linux running, thats doesnt make it easier.. different filestrucutre, etc.. 
>
>icq 38302022
>
>ciao!
>hans_e
>
>
>>
>>
>>thanks,
>>Shane Mayer
>>
>>
>>--- James M Baumgartner <baumgj@rpi.edu> wrote: 
>>>Hans, meet Shane. Shane, Hans.
>>>
>>>Shane is going to help out with setting up a database for all of the
>>>online forms. He will email Hans with questions about the ubermorgen
>>>server.
>>>
>>>James
>>>
>>
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