Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak 
   
  Marty Rimm's response to the Hoffman & Novak critique of the Time cover
  article
  
   
   
   Rimm has prepared a response to the Hoffman and Novak critique of the
   Time "Cyberporn" cover article. Since posting the "Cyberporn Debate"
   page on the Project 2000 Web server, thousands of individuals have
   accessed the critiques. We urge all interested readers to now study
   Rimm's response. Below are our reactions.
   
       
     * Mr. Rimm does not address the Hoffman and Novak critique of the
       Rimm study (only the critique of the Time cover article), nor the
       other statements being made by political officials who have read
       the Time cover story based upon Rimm's article. Our underlying
       goal is to promote electronic commerce on the many-to-many
       environment of the World Wide Web and its successors, and it is
       our fervent belief that a hysterical rush toward needless
       legislation of the Internet will hinder commercial investment and
       community and educational interests.
       
     * Mr. Rimm continues to refer to his research as the "Carnegie
       Mellon study." Yet the study, and his response to the Hoffman and
       Novak Time critique, is single authored.
       
     * Mr. Rimm attempts, throughout his remarks, to discredit Hoffman
       and
       
   Novak's credentials in an offensive and demeaning manner.
   
   Mr. Rimm attributes many of the statments made in the critique to
   Donna Hoffman alone, yet the critique is dual-authored by Hoffman and
   Novak.
   
   The text of Mr. Rimm's study was not posted until July 11, 1995, 15
   days after the appearance of the exclusive Time article.
   
   note: Our reactions apply to the original version of Rimm's response,
   downloaded at 1pm, CST, July 5, 1995.