[44252] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Nov 30 11:29:36 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:20:46 -0800
To: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>, rsalz@osf.org
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
> > There is, of course, no way to interpret the semantics of this
electronically.
At 10:11 AM 11/30/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
> Of course not. In the end, a human needs to make the decision based on
> ASCII text.
For those ascii texts that belong to a small and commonly used set,
we can set our computers to automatically follow certain policies,
and to bring to our attention "special case" texts that lie outside
this set.
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