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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Phantom Access - EFF
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.185036.22561@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
- Keywords: Phantom Access, EFF, Privacy, Polls
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Jul17.190539.1621@polaris.async.vt.edu> <tbcm85=.blain@netcom.com> <dank.712258012@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:50:36 GMT
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- In article <dank.712258012@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes:
- >blain@netcom.com (Blain Strickel) writes:
- >>The EFF from the results I have received is an organization without a purpose
- >>and without a following. Only 52 people even had == opinions == about what
- >>the EFF is doing...
- >
- >Perhaps if you had chosen a more interesting subject than "Phantom Access",
- >more serious people would have read your original poll, i.e. it's not just
- >EFF that has trouble getting a coherent message to the masses :-)
- >I certainly support the EFF wholeheartedly.
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- Dan's point is precisely the one I would have made if I'd gotten here
- first. Blain Strickel's poll is a sampling of a highly unrepresentative
- fraction of the readership of this newsgroup: specifically, those who
- read the postings in the thread "Re: Phantom Access - EFF" *and* who were
- willing to take the time to respond to Strickel's poll.
-
- Blain's poll, and the conclusions he draws from it, demonstrate some of
- the hazards of unsystematic and unscientific opinion-gathering.
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- --Mike
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- Mike Godwin, |"Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a law-
- mnemonic@eff.org | breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every
- (617) 864-0665 | man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy."
- EFF, Cambridge | --Brandeis, J., dissenting in Olmstead v. U.S.
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