Time: Sun Nov 10 15:38:38 1996 To: Erin Donelle <donelle@snowcrest.net> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: INTERNET THOUGHT Cc: Dean Hines Bcc: Erin, If the pen is mighter than the sword, then how powerful can 275,000 mainframe computers be, once they are all speaking to each other at 25 megabits per second, and serving files to one billion people, on the average, at any given moment? /s/ Paul Mitchell attaching NOOSPHER.DOC written by MS-WORD for DOS, Version 5.0B and encoded with BinHex (MIME and Uuencode are also available at my end) At 12:17 PM 11/10/96 -0800, you wrote: >At 01:07 PM 11/10/96 -0700, you wrote: >>Erin, >> >>The Internet is not an "Arm" >>in the sense in which that >>term is utilized in the Second >>Amendment. >> >>I appreciate the metaphor, but >>we are talking Law here, with >>poetry thrown in on the side, >>and only on the side. >> >>/s/ Paul Mitchell >> >> > > >Paul, > >Point taken and noted. >That was not the intent; >metaphor was, and not for >legal purposes. > >The firearm of thought. > >Perhaps I should have >clarified that, but didn't >think it necessary. > >Just for the non-legal-use >of getting people to use >their own heads about >everything. > >Thanks, > >Erin. > >donelle@snowcrest.net > >
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