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- Subject: Sympathy and praise for EFF
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- This came over PACS-L yesterday. --brad
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Subject: recent EFF announcement
-
- I'd like to add a note of sympathy and encouragement to the EFF's
- recent announcement of bloodletting, donning-of-neckties, and move-
- to-within-the-Beltway. One of the great hopes which Clinton's
- presidency carries for libraries and information networkers is the
- influence that Vice President Al Gore and CEA chair Laura Tyson now
- will have in hi-tech policy. EFF, and Mitch Kapor personally, have
- an opportunity -- an obligation, I think -- to represent all of us
- there now with their intelligent, articulate, and responsible views
- on telecommunications policy and the National Public Network.
-
- It is too bad that the legal end of EFF's previous concerns may get
- neglected for a bit. Policy is more important, though: Clinton-
- Gore-Tyson, and Kapor-EFF, have an opportunity now to write the
- laws which will govern the rest of us in telecommunications and
- networking for the next several decades. I personally welcome EFF's
- decision to focus its primary attention on that formidable job.
-
- Jack Kessler
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- kessler@well.sf.ca.us
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