[lug] SSSCA to make all open source software illegal

[Nate Duehr]

Well, if one good thing comes of the Anthrax scare, perhaps e-mailed
correspondence to Congresscritters won't mean your opinion is read LAST
like you were some sort of second-class citizen for sending in an
e-mail. 

Also, perhaps folks will get serious about using the various security
key signature options for e-mail more seriously now that e-mail is
"safer" -- someone will spoof some important e-mail somewhere and then
digital signatures will become as important as they already should be.

Interesting times...

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:05:16AM -0600, Ken Weinert wrote:
> > > Let's see there are 405 subscribers to this list.  If we all wrote
> > > a letter to our congressmen there is a fairly decent chance that
> > > we'd be heard.  Let's see, the contact info people would need are:
> 
> > http://clerkweb.house.gov/107/olm107.php3#COLORADO
> > >    http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
> > >
> > http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
> > >    http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm
> 
> 	While I agree that this is a good idea, given the current
> situation in Washington how many of them will actually get read? And
> in what time frame?
> 
> 	I heard on NPR yesterday that they might just burn all the
> mail they have already had delivered because it would take too much
> time to go through each one and verify that it is clean. 
> 
> 	That obviously doesn't affect mail that hasn't been sent yet
> :) but in this climate would it be a good idea to use both e- and s-
> mail to ensure timely delivery?
> 
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