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
>

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