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Original Message Date: 11 Aug 92 01:38:03
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From: Dick Gladden on 1:381/5
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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Subj: Reply to "paper" letter
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^AINTL 1:125/111 1:381/5
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Last things first... Lisa Gronke. I think she'd be a good choice. Have <20>
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read some of her stuff and she seems to be level-headed. Downside: <20>
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Editorship has tangible benefits. About 4 weeks ago a certain editor <20>
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stated he was terribly handicapped by having to use an obsolete RS <20>
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computer. Presto... no more handicap. The pen is mightier than the sword <20>
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or maybe even dough-re-mi. :-)
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Fido docs: Scratch publishing 'em... just provide something on disk we can <20>
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dump to prn. Seems to me you'll still earn income from Fido as a shareware <20>
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project. I keep getting inquiries about 12u but can only offer handholding <20>
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without some paper.
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Support shareware users ONLY in FIDO echo. There's a ton of experience <20>
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available there. For those few Fido/FidoNet users lacking access to FIDO, <20>
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give 'em a mailing address/phone number (with permission) of someone like <20>
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Ken or Ray. I don't see a need for you to make regular appearances in FIDO <20>
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considering the depth of expertise available.
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Privacy act: Go get 'em. The Feds proposal to require data transmission <20>
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technology be restricted, just so they can eavesdrop without being <20>
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inconvenienced, is very disturbing. The hell with 'em. There's too much <20>
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snooping going on as it is without impairing future technological <20>
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development.
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I was watching Computer Chronicles demonstrate a new graphics <20>
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breakthrough.... gonna to have trouble describing it. Suffice to say <20>
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programmers are able to generate life-like images in real-time motion for <20>
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video. One would have sworn they were actually watching people in action.
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Afterwards the thought occured to me that the Feds pornographic review <20>
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board (wherever that is) would be hard pressed to make a case against <20>
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someone producing, mailing, transmitting, whatever, electronically created <20>
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images that, if containing real people, would otherwise be prohibited. <20>
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Should be interesting to see how lawmakers react. I think this is the same <20>
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technology used in the new Meyrl Streep film, critiqued recently on TV, in <20>
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which her head rotates completely around on her body... positively weird <20>
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realism.
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Speaking of privacy, I might be able to do something for you in the future <20>
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if only I knew your full name, incl middle initial, and SS number. I won't <20>
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promise anything except to keep such info confidential. You can tell me to <20>
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get lost, if you want, and I'll understand.
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P.S. FidoTerm. Are you going to release a new version before packing <20>
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everything away or is this a way-down-the-road project?
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