Waste and Internet

[Anonymous]

Christophe Freund writes:

  In COL49, Thomas Pynchon describes a form of parallel mail. <...>

  Compare now the evolution of WASTE and ARPANET. <...>

  In the last pages of COL49, a mother recommends to its girl to use WASTE
  in order that her correspondence not to be intercepted by the government.

  It seems paradoxical that a system originally instrument of war is apt to
  guarantee the anonymity.

shhhhhh...we wouldn't want Them to figure this out, would we?


        A ship I have got in the North Country
        And she goes by the name of the Golden Vanity,
        O, I fear she will be taken by a Spanish Gal-la-lee,
        As she sails by the Low-lands low...


Happy U.S. Independence Day from the gang in Amsterdam,

k-k-k-Katje <kborges at cforce.jamfnet.org>