VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS

David S. Touretzky, Ph.D
Computer Science Department
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15213

     Re:  The NOTs Scholars Home Page

Dear Mr. Touretzky:

          I write to you on behalf of Religious Technology
Center ("RTC").  This firm is representing RTC in its
actions against Dennis Erlich, Keith Henson, Arnaldo Lerma
and Grady Ward, cases pending in U.S. federal courts before
either Judges Whyte (N.D. Cal.) or Brinkema (Lerma, E.D.
Va.).  I believe you are familiar with these cases.

          RTC is the licensee of the copyrights and owner of
other intellectual property of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder
of the Scientology religion, in the confidential,
unpublished Scientology scriptures known as the "Advanced
Technology."  RTC's copyright claims have led Judges
Brinkema and Whyte to rule that each of the above-listed
defendant's Internet postings violated RTC's copyrights.
Such conduct has been enjoined.  Judge Whyte also denied
Netcom's request to have RTC's copyright claims against it,
as an Internet access "provider," dismissed.  Subsequently,
RTC and Netcom settled their dispute; Netcom has
considerably tightened its rules to avoid lending provider
auspices to infringers and misappropriators.


          Although Judge Brinkema denied RTC's motion for a
preliminary injunction on trade secret grounds, reasoning
that Internet posting of certain, defined issues had ended
their trade secret status, that ruling did not involve any
of the NOTs issues which you are now threatening to acquire
or post.  Moreover, Judge Whyte (in Erlich) has, as of now,
declined to rule that the trade secrets in various NOTs
issues were impaired as a result of Internet postings and
has undertaken further hearings on this very point.  Even
more recently, Judge Whyte declined to modify the trade
secret injunctions against Ward and Henson, based on the
latters' claim that the Internet posting of these issues
vitiated their trade secret status.  Judge Whyte indicated
that he would soon be ruling on the impact of Internet
postings on the trade secret status of these works.  That
ruling has not yet been issued.

          We write to you because of your recent opening of
a Web-site at Carnegie Mellon soliciting RTC's NOTs
materials and expressing the seeming intention to post them.
Your past history, as the first person to post the so-called
Fishman declaration to a Web-site (like conduct has been
unequivocally determined to be a copyright violation, as to
which the poster and a provider on notice would have
liability), gave impetus to others to make echo postings
that, at the very least, infringe RTC's copyrights.

          RTC is confident that you are aware that RTC
objects to any infringement of its copyright in this
material and that the genesis of unpublished materials
outside any Church of Scientology is notorious thefts in
Denmark and England, to which an article on your Web page
refers.

          RTC does not desire to engage in litigation with
you.  Nor does it wish to impinge on your legitimate First
Amendment rights.  It does, however, insist that you respect
its intellectual property rights.  Toward that end, on its
behalf we request that you now:

          1.    Cease soliciting copies of the NOTs materials
and retract your solicitations (as to which there are two
judicial actions, both of which enjoined individuals from
soliciting or acquiring NOTs materials).


          2.    Turn over to this firm for safekeeping any
and all copies of NOTs or portions of it that you have or
control.

          3.    Make no disclosure, in whole or in part, of
the NOTs materials in any media.

          4.    Remove the summaries of the NOTs works from
your Web page and turn over to this firm for safekeeping all
copies of those summaries that you have or control.

          5.    Cease posting, or accepting for posting on
your Web page, any further materials that reproduce, in
whole or in part, any of the contents of the NOTs materials.

          This letter is not intended as a complete
statement of facts or RTC's claims of rights.  It is
intended to assure that in exercising your legitimate First
Amendment rights you do not further infringe upon RTC's
intellectual property.

                         Very truly yours,
                         
                         [signed]
                         
                         Roger M. Milgrim

RMM/ia

cc:  General Counsel,
     Carnegie Mellon University