I think a laser printed letter can carry itself just as well =] My handwriting hasn't been the same since I learned to use a word processor... Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Ade Talabi > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:1705] Re: Free Dmitry > > > 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 >
