From: snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 05:36:54 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "The Virtual Hand": Free-market Internet guide
Message-ID: <199406171235.IAA18379@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
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At  2:30 AM 6/17/94 -0700, Tommy the Tourist wrote:
>> >[Please distribute this as widely as you see fit.  Thanks -- Sasha Volokh]
>> >
>> >The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce:
>> >
>> >                THE VIRTUAL HAND
>> >
>> >                CEI'S FREE-MARKET GUIDE TO THE
>> >                INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
>> >...
>   Didn't look like a spam to me. It looked like a very targeted ad
>to a receptive audience. Cypherpunks contains, after all, a high
>population of libertarians and free market types. All net advertising
>is not bad.

Cypherpunks also can contains, after all, a high population of computer
users.  Does that mean that Apple or Compaq sending ads to the list
wouldn't be bad?

If it's target was libertarians, it should have been sent to one of the
various libertarian lists/groups.

Bob

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