The IRC news service is available on the #news channel of irc, as a continuously cycling repeat. These reports were edited by "freeside" (mengwong@POBOX.UPENN.EDU) from media and wire reports, as well as the eyewitness acounts found on the #report channel. Kirill Tchashchin ("Tacci") provided up to date information from the Postfactum news service in Moscow. (jem: this is somehow connected to Tass) "ginster" (rlg1@CRUX3.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Linton Ginn)) contributed to the briefs. The biases of the reports are not necessarily those of anybody in particular, but take their terminology and selective attention from news as it came in. For more information on #report as an IRC phenomenon, ftp cs.bu.edu:irc