Re: nettime The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida(WSJ)

2012-04-02 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Erich M. wrote: On 03/30/2012 01:57 PM, John Young wrote: The postal system remains the most secure public communication system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and craven cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts. Servus John et al, Ack to all you wrote

Re: nettime The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida(WSJ)

2012-04-01 Thread Erich M.
On 03/30/2012 01:57 PM, John Young wrote: The postal system remains the most secure public communication system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and craven cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts. Servus John et al, Ack to all you wrote with a single

nettime The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida (WSJ)

2012-03-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Back in the late 90s I wrote a piece praising the then almost defunct (and by now dead and burried?) telegraph system (*). Looks like the letter post is headed the same way, as the digital empire is conquering the whole communication realm. The whole communication realm? No, in Florida a small