Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
Quotes about mails (10 Quotes)
A modern computer is an electronic wonder that performs complex mathematical calculations and intricate accounting tabulations in one ten-thousandth of a second -- and then mails out statements ten days late.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
My voice mails are crazy. I'm not even going to check that out right now.
Never did I imagine the mania. I've gotten about 500 phone calls a day, just from Israel, ever since we won. It's a bit overwhelming at times. I just want to eat a peaceful dinner, or I go to sleep and I'll wake up with 17 voice mails. It's tough, because you want to please a lot of people... but I'd rather be there than not be there
Open access is the biggest issue. The other one, we think, is interoperability for instant messenger and ICQ. The ability for other ISPs to have instant messaging with, and that is technologically resolvable at some point in the not too distant future and AOL has pledged that they will move towards making that happen. If these two completely different services can link together and interoperate without any security problems, junk mails bombarding the chat sessions, then it would be very easy to invite other ISP customers into what would be a global and complete instant messaging system for all Internet users,
I think it's just another effort at secrecy. E-mails and voice mails are often the only source of information today.
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the Communications Decency Act would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
I did check however many voice mails I have now, and one of them is Andy, ... I'm sure it's a message first congratulating me and then making fun of me for something I'm sure I did wrong on the court. I'll get back at him and I'm sure it will be a similar message where I make fun of him.