Re: [Pan-users] Signatures?

[Duncan]

On Fri 24 Jan 2003 05:18, Tim Kynerd posted as excerpted below:
> Thanks, Duncan! I'd never even looked at that dialog before.

This list is good for bringing things like that out, I've found.  I consider 
myself pretty thorough at going thru menus, etc, and getting the most out of 
a product, but the list has surprised me by pointing things out I'd missed, 
too.  That's a GOOD thing, tho!  (Of course, one excuse for having missed the 
features is that PAN doesn't have a good instruction README, or help file, as 
I always read pretty much all of those, if available, for an app I use as 
much as I use PAN.)

> PS I like your E-mail sig.

Yes..  After 9/11, I found myself disturbed by the developing loss of liberty, 
supposedly to more effectively fight the war against terrorism.  Having lived 
in Africa growing up, and having traveled between there and the US, I've 
actually seen places without many of the freedoms we take for granted, and 
possibly treasure them more than most.  I must be left to wonder, if we 
surrender the very thing we were attacked for having, in the attempt to win 
the war, even if we do "win", who has actually won in the end?  IMO, that's 
unfortunately what we've done, to some extent, as freedom has been rolled 
back more in the last year and a half like never before.  I'd seen the quote, 
but had to googlize for it, to get it right.  Another of my favorites is one 
I believe by Jefferson, about how a nation long at war cannot maintain its 
freedom.  Think about how long we've been fighting the "war on drugs", and 
how long we are likely to be fighting the "war on terrorism", and extend the 
cost to freedom not even mentioning the human cost, and the $$ cost, of the 
war on drugs, to the now second war on terrorism, and things don't look so 
good.

-- 
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin