Going Postal (Was: Boom!)

[James A. Donald]

(Regarding the one pound limit on anonymous parcels)

At 08:13 AM 8/9/96 -0700, David.K.Merriman at toad.com, wrote:
> Don't know that I'm a 'bomb expert', but it would appear reasonable that 6 
> just-under-a-pound bombs would do approximately as much damage as a 
> similarly sized larger device.

As was pointed out earlier in this thread, a one pound device containing 
high explosive can drop a plane out of the sky as if it was swatting a fly.

Note that any moron can make high explosive, though the average moron 
has a good chance of blowing himself up in the process.

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