[1019] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Thank you for your comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Tue Jul 16 11:15:47 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 11:22:35 EDT
From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
To: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu, shane@vm.utdallas.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, nren-discuss@uu.psi.com
Shane Davis <shane@vm.utdallas.edu> says:
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+ Sorry I'm not replying to the original note here...
+
+ >.... it's a waste of taxpayer's money to be shipping
+ >erotic stories and images around over the Internet.
+
+ Pardon me for straying further from com-priv and NREN issues, but this
+ argument does not hold water [...] Perhaps if you rephrase you statement
+ to be, "... it's a waste of my tax dollars," it would be slightly more
+ compelling and appropriately diminishes you to one voice in 200 million.
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Had you been replying to the original note, you would have seen the quote
in it's proper context, which was something along the lines of me saying,
"Joe Abarnathy thinks it's a waste of taxpayer's money to be shipping
erotic stories and images around over the Internet, and I agree". I did
not state it as fact, but simply was espousing my opinion.
