Time: Sun Nov 10 16:03:18 1996 To: Harry Barnett <harryb@eskimo.com> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: INTERNET THOUGHT Cc: Bcc: >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:38:40 >To: Erin Donelle <donelle@snowcrest.net> >From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] >Subject: INTERNET THOUGHT >Cc: Dean Hines > >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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