From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 01:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Cato forum on liquor advertising and electronic media
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At 04:59 PM 4/25/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>At 10:20 AM -0800 4/25/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>Attachment converted: APS 1GB Fireball:PYRBBROW.GIF (GIFf/JVWR) (0000F3F7)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I know I sound like a broken record, but these "attachments" are getting
>out of hand. I periodically look at my attachments folder and find several

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have, but it was small...

>(This GIF I opened...it appears to be a beer bottle with a star hanging
>around the neck. Self-ratings of beer?)

The context was the [some censorship group] initiative to ban alcohol and
tobacco advertising on the web.  Their big hangup is Joe Camel, of course,
but I didn't have a handy Joe Camel gif around at the time I was posting,
and good beer is a far more civilized thing anyway :-) - it's Pyramid's
Best Brown Ale.

#			Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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