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RE: Advisory Committee on the NII

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Jan 7 00:49:35 1994

Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 1994 00:19:13 EST
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: "The future Ross Stapleton-Gray" <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com

On Thu, 6 Jan 1994 20:33:29 -0700 (MST), "The future Ross Stapleton-Gray" <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Bill Updegraff <UpdegraffW@mac.ripon.edu> says:
> > I get a bit paranoid when I see the Advisory Committee apppointed without any
> > reference to Internet addresses or even snail-mail addresses. 
> > -Bill Updegraff
> > Ripon College

> But... your question is really, "and, so how am I going to get my views 
> across to these people, huh?"   And there's the rub.

This is the principle that Bill was expressing:

	If you don't know how to drive (the Internet), you shouldn't
	be designing the Information Superhighway.

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