From: nate@VIS.ColoState.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 16:46:34 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: saturation tactics?
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George A. Gleason coersed the electrons into symbolizing:
>yeah, here's a cheaper version.  Write to the arms excport license people
>and pester them with questions: I'm a BBS operator, what should I do?; I'm a
>businessperson travelling overseas and need my crypto to comm with the home
>office what should I do?; all this kind of thing.  Swamp them with letters.
>Every person and every circumstance which even remotely fits.  
>
>An alternative version which would require more guts and perhaps a serious
>conscientious decision about whether it's worth making this an act of civil
>disobedience, is to write to them and say, "I'm a BBS operator, not an arms
>merchant, and on the strength of my 1st-A rights I'm not going to censor my
>board or get a license..."  or  "I'm a businessperson who travels & takes my
>cryupto out of the country on my laptop to comm with the home office; I'm
>not an arms dealer either and I don't intend to get a license..."  And
>again, there is strength in numbers here.   
>
>And of course, a good steganographic program or two would be a very nice
>development indeed, Just In Case.  
>
>-gg
>

I would favor this oprion, since each person could write several letters,
each addressing a separate topic/gripe/question.

BTW, what is the snail-mail address to send these letters to?

-nate

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