Time: Sun Nov 10 16:02:47 1996
To: roc@xmission.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: computers and the Constitution
Cc: 
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Dear Harry,

If the pen is mightier than the
sword, then computers just might
be instrumental in restoring
our Constitution.  Do you agree,
or not?  I agree that, sometimes,
the technical jargon gets difficult
if not impossible to understand.
I submit to you that the field of
law has become no less technical,
and quite a bit more difficult to
fathom, particularly when our 
vaulted Congress has repeatedly
resorted to duplicitous language.
Huge text databases may be just
what the doctor ordered to recover
our lost wisdom, and restore order.
Just my opinion, mind you.  It sounds
as if we might have to disagree here.
What do you say about these points?

/s/ Paul Mitchell


At 12:20 PM 11/10/96 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:
>
>> It certainly sounds to me as 
>> if Windows 95 with FAT32 is
>> well within his talents, and
>> I for one would like to hear
>> more from him.
>
>Then you, for one, tell him that.  Don't tell me.
>
>> When I read
>> his statement about "the lay
>> of the land", I took that to
>> be a rhetorical statement about
>> not joining or "crashing" the
>> list until he got a feel for
>> what was going here.  I admire
>> the sentiment, but I would never
>> want to hold anyone to their
>> promise to remain silent when
>> there is so much to say about
>> America today, as it does the
>> slow death reserved for all
>> democracies ever since time began.
>> 
>> /s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>You, of course, are free to do whatever you please, including
>encouraging boorishness, or behaving boorishly, if that fits your
>pistol.
>
>Invading a forum having as its charter the discussion of "Restore Our
>Constitution" with 5K worth of technical discussion involving disk
>directory structures, for which there couldn't be more than several
>hundred more appropriate forums, fits the category of "boorish", IMO.
>
>-----
>Harry Barnett <harryb@eskimo.com>
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