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: 
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>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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