ABSTRACT
In Colonial America, there were people known as pamphleteers who attempted to get their ideas across by distributing and posting notices. The most famous of these was Thomas Paine, a supporter of the American independence movement. His pamphlet, Common Sense, served to stir the heart of many a colonist. Martin Luther used a similar technique in 1517 when he posted his famous 95 Theses on the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany. At a less consequential level, just walk through a neighborhood on a spring day and count the posted notices of yard sales, meetings, and the like. The posting of notices is a time-honored means of communication.
