Bill Salisbury, “Minnesota ‘bit players’ enjoy the show; Democratic colleagues happy with their role at convention,” the _St. Paul Pioneer Press_, July 14, 1994, Page 1A. Footnote 6.53: West’s 6,000-word letter of February 22, 1995, was available on the World Wide Web at the following address in July 1995: http://www.startribune.com/westpub/perspectives/response.htm. Footnote 6.54: Jack B. Coffman and Thomas J. Collins, “Bankrolling the legislature part 6: Who has the clout,” the _St. Paul Pioneer Press_, April 17, 1992, Page 1A. Footnote 6.55: Margaret Engle, “Virtual money trail: The Center for Responsive Politics on the Internet,” _Capital Eye_, June 15, 1995, Page 2. Footnote 6.56: Martin Schram, _Speaking Freely: Former Members of Congress Talk about Money and Politics_ (Washington, D.C: Center for Responsive Politics, 1995), page 85. Chapter 7—The Electronic Matchmaker Footnote 7.1: The Goodin quotes appear in the paper “The Net and Netizens: The impact the Net has on people’s lives,” by Michael Hauben (hauben@columbia.edu). Footnote 7.2: The America Online example is from a personal interview, the CompuServe one from online messages, and the Prodigy example from _People_ magazine. Footnote 7.3: Although anonymous servers protect privacy in most cases, this could be happening only up to a certain point. Many on the Net take it for granted that national security agencies in the United States can monitor traffic to and from the servers and determine the identities of the senders. Footnote 7.4: I won’t even bother here with the term “Cyberpunk,” which nowadays can mean anyone from a rebellious hacker to a technophobic teenager who is trying to make a fashion statement. Footnote 7.5: Sue tells me her hair is shorter these days, “a little past my chin now.” I doubt the change will imperil Greg’s ardor. Footnote 7.6: A program for sending and receiving electronic mail over a network. Footnote 7.7: I look forward to an era of electronic books where librarians can function more as book reviewers and information hunters, and less as clerks. Index A