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Re: Trust?
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Edwin Kammerer <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Wed, 2 Sep 1998 03:19:25 -0400
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So said:

 > At 02:34 PM 9/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
 >
   >> "People came to think that bits -- the 'information' in information
theory --
   >> are the same thing as the 'information' that the term ordinarily
describes.
   >> But they're not."

So there is no uncertainty on this point:  That quote is of Charles C. Mann,
from his article on copyrights in the Sept. 98 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

He wrote it, I saluted it.


EK

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