We're clever people

[Daniel Ridge]

John,

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, John Brewer wrote:

> >inspectors. (And perhaps it will be illegal, I don't care)
> Not a very "clever" thing to say on an open line in this day-and-age.

I can personally assure you that I can write whatever I wish here and the
people who check my emissions still won't know me from a hole in the wall.

I seriously doubt that the powers that be have the free time to be
reading, the drive space to be storing, or the spare cycles to be later
sifting through my email.

It's like license plates. Despite the fact that we have to put them
prominently on our cars, we can still drive around and expect to remain
reasonably anonymous -- because there are so many of us. I have license
plates on all of my cars, and I don't feel like my privacy is being
invaded by The Man.

-Dan

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