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Libertarian Internet Presence Felt

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Wed Jun 29 15:03:39 1994

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 14:57:30 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU


To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU

in a context that just barely qualifies for posting here, but what
the heck.  Note we're only one step away from being #1!

TOP TEN REASONS WHY THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF LIKE THE INTERNET

This list provided by Tom Kalil, the David Letterman of the
Clinton/Gore administration.  Kalil gave the closing keynote at INET'94/JENC5
in Prague on Friday, June 17, and included this list in his talk about
NII efforts in the United States.

10. Surfing the Web is more fun than going to meetings.

9. Even reading old RFCs is more fun than going to meetings.

8. On the Internet, no one knows you're a bureaucrat.

7. It's how we get our daily marching orders from Vint Cerf, Tony
   Rutkowski, and Dave Farber.

6. It's hard to write your X.400 address on a cocktail napkin.

5. We get all that great electronic fan mail on the Clipper Chip.

4. We have access to the Top Secret Air Force server with cool gifs of
   UFOs and little green men.

3. We're still hoping to get on Carl Malamud's "Geek of the Week."

2. We love getting flamed by rabid libertarians on "com-priv."

1. We can send e-mail FROM president@whitehouse.gov.



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