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Monday, January 11, 1999

The Cyber-Pamphleteer

The movie Doctor Zhivago begins with " crazy " Pasha - the

    future Red Guard general - distributing seemingly pathetic

    leaflets in Moscow Square. The Czarist secret police are unamused :

    they confiscate his leaflets. But when the " pigs " are out of

    sight, he finds more leaflets hidden in his winter coat.

         " They'll sing in tune after the revolution ! " a sinister

    character jokes .

            Most Americans will at least admire Pasha's FREE SPEECH

    effort -if not its future consequences.

            Pasha would have loved to have what I have for

    FREE - The Ocean State Free Net and ubiquitous  public library

    computers.

           I am working on the concept of the " Cyber- Pamphleteer ".

     I  do electronically what Pasha attempted to do in the heroic,

    but old fashioned. And I do it with a thousand times more

    efficiency.

           When I wish to communicate  a brief opinion - which

    guarantees reading - I select HUNDREDS of OSFN e-mail addresses

    at random. It takes only minutes to MASS MAIL !


         Often I get immediate feedback : " Don't bother me today.

    I'm too busy !  "  Or " Viva La Revolucion !  "

        I 'm not exactly The New York Times in credibility. But

    nothing to sniff at either. I think !

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