At 09:26 AM 1/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Michael M. Butler wrote:
>>
>> Interesting if it is what it purports to be...
>
>I see nothing interesting about this page.
Very well. A chacun a son gout, and all that.
>These and other files have
>always been available through the Freedom of Information Act.
"Always"? Rethink your rhetoric, please. Hint: were they available
through FOIA before FOIA existed?
>What is
>new or different now,
Beg pardon? I really don't understand this subquestion.
>and why are Extropians directed to this particular
>list of files?
I guess you didn't read it all the way through. Quoting:
The index is a listing of some cases thought to be of historical,
social, or journalistic interest.
As I said, interesting <TO ME is of course assumed> if it is what it
purports to be.
(po) If you are not interested in history or society you won't be
interested.
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