At 5:13 AM 10/25/95, Raph Levien wrote:
I got the CJR back today, envelope unopened (although the corner was torn so you could see there were t-shirts inside). "Returned to sender", it said, "Refused___, Unclaimed___".
The address on the envelope reads:
ATTN: Samuel L. Capino - 15 day CJR Defense Trade Analyst U.S. Dept. of State Office of Defense Trade Controls PM/DTC SA-6 Room 200 1701 N. Fort Meyer Drive Arlington, CA 22209-3113
Did I do something wrong, or did the Dept. of State decide it didn't want to deal with this CJR?
Raph, I mean no offense, but if _any_ request is ever to be deemed "frivolous," surely submitting a CJR for t-shirts is such a request. I won't belabor the point that the t-shirt is _at best_ comparable to a book, which generally needs no CJR (*), and _at worst_ is an illegible, confusing "work of art." (I personally am miffed at the imprecision of the "This shirt has been declared to be a munition"--or whatever, as I don't have one handy to check--and the language of the sales advertisements.) So the little joke was returned unopened. Not surprising. No offense intended to all those who think a CJR for a t-shirt is a worthy cause, but I think it's a pointless diversion. (* Hal Abelson of MIT says there are possible export problems with the MIT Press book on PGP, and MIT dropped plans for a version in a special OCR font. So, I agree that _some_ books cross the line and look like pure software. However, I continue to maintain that a badly-printed barcode is just a joke, nothing more.) --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."