--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:02:48 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IP: Celebrating the Fourth Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Whitfield Diffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tuesday 3 July 2001 at 17h45 > > In 1994, I sent the following message to the Cypherpunks" > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Celebrating the 4th > Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 at 13h01 > > On the 4th of July 1993, I walked out of my house and saw my > neighbor's flag flying from the porch. I thought: ``I have no flag > to fly; how shall I celebrate Independence Day?'' I went back > inside and got Gunther's Casebook in Constitutional Law. At > breakfast, I re-read the Constitution. A practice I recommend to > all of you. > > I subsequently acquired online copies of the Constitution, and the > even more appropriate Declaration of Independence from Danny Weitzner > at EFF. Plain TeX copies are attached below, separated by a > --- cut here --- line. > (snip) > >(It seemed corny but I couldn't figure out how to improve on it since it >was true.) Today the Constitution and the Declaration are readily >available on the web and still worth reading once a year. > > Whit For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
