Tim Howe, For reasons, I can not explain, hand-written letters now give me a scare. At least, you know what you are getting, with one that is typed up. For one to hand write me a letter in this day and age, can only be trouble. Or heartbreakening... Tim Howe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [19/07/01 at 17:04]: > I have read time and time again that email just doesn't have the same power > as a written and stamped letter. I say write your feelings out, then print > it, stuff an envelope, and mail that sucker off. Perhaps a letter writing > campain is in order... Hell, it got Star Trek back on the air... People > are used to dealing with large quantaties of email that all say the same > thing; it's called SPAM. A letter has wieght and needs to be opened and can > look or smell or feel any way you want it to. I get tons of email a day but > a letter from a friend will sit on my desk LONG after my trash folder has > been empty. > > Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > larry a price > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:36 PM > > To: Patrick R. Wade > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:1666] Re: Free Dmitry Sklyarov - Fight DMCA > > > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Patrick R. Wade wrote: > > > > > I gather at least one of the "encrypted ebooks" he cracked > > was ROT-13'd. > > > Under the DMCA, the encryptor's intent to obscure the > > plaintext is all it > > > takes to make evading the cryptography an illegal tampering > > with a copyright > > > protection mechanism. > > > > > Yeah, rot-13 that's SOOO!! high-tech! I guess that just shows that the > > DMCA is all about legislating reality rather than dealing with it. > > > > Let this be a lesson to us all: > > This is the sort of thing that happens when legislation is > > written by the > > lobbyists for the clients and of the client's interests. > > > > > > Paper mail is worth a thousand emails; > > > > > How true that is. Of course enough emails... hmm.. i've been thinking > > about looking into httplib, just generate random valid > > addresses in eugene > > area and send them at irregular intervals...(wouldn't really honest) > > > > > > > > >http://www.senate.gov/~gsmith/webform.htm <<<Gordon Smith > > > > > > Washington, DC Office > > > 404 Russell Senate Office Building > > > Washington, DC 20510 > > > Phone: (202) 224-3753 > > > Fax: (202) 228-3997 > > > > > > > > > > >http://wyden.senate.gov/mail.htm <<<Ron Wyden > > > > > > WASHINGTON, DC > > > 516 Hart Senate Office Building > > > Washington, DC 20510 > > > (202) 224-5244 > > > EUGENE > > > 151 West 7th Ave. Suite 435 > > > Eugene, OR 97401 > > > (541) 431-0229 > > > -- > > > A full height 19" rack with a glass door looks very out of place > > > when it's all alone. Sort of like a perverted shrine to the > > > God of Blinkenlights. > > > - Pim van Riezen, in the Monastery > > > > > > > " No try not, Do or do not, There is no try!" --- Yoda to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars
