From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:51:07 +0800
To: Carl Ellison <rsalz@osf.org
Subject: Re: The future will be easy to use
Message-ID: <199511301622.IAA08718@blob.best.net>
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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
> > There is, of course, no way to interpret the semantics of this
electronically.

At 10:11 AM 11/30/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
> Of course not.  In the end, a human needs to make the decision based on
> ASCII text.

For those ascii texts that belong to a small and commonly used set,
we can set our computers to automatically follow certain policies,
and to bring to our attention "special case" texts that lie outside
this set.



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