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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: "Civil Disobedience" et al.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.233745.10400@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:37:45 GMT
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- In article <1ifjgtINN3sp@phakt.usc.edu> dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
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- > Why don't you just post some of the stuff out of alt.sex.stories?
- >It is about as relevant, and you should get some mail(If that is your
- >true measure of success).
-
- Wait a minute. You're saying Thoreau is no more relevant to people
- concerned about electronic freedoms than the postings to alt.sex.stories
- are? If so, you have given civil libertarians like me a very strong
- argument for subscribing to alt.sex.stories.
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- >If you are implying that he said that Thoreau was a 60's radical; I guess
- >you are totally wrong. There is a difference between '1960s nostalgia' and
- >"..nostalgia for 1960s radicals." The way you(plural) are jumping on
- >this guy shows a severe lack of tolerance.
-
- It seems ironic for someone to condemn a Thoreau reprint, then criticize
- others for a lack of tolerance.
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- --Mike
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