On 9/3/16 11:32 PM, juan wrote:



        Playing with the 92-98 archive...


From: [1]tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 10:48:20 PDT
To: [2]cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CYPHERPUNK considered harmful.


        "Similarly, there's the Libertarian Party, with similar themes
        to our own..."


        "Getting back to your suggestion that "we" change the name to
        something more respectable. How could "we" do this, given that
        "we" are an effective anarchy?"

   The group was "an effective anarchy".  So is hanging out with your
   friends.  Corporations (and families for that matter) are, classically,
   dictatorships.  Does that make the political and economic system they
   operate in dictatorships too?

        "Form your own group, your own mailing list, with a catchy
        name, something like "The Privacy Education Foundation," or
        "The American Civil Liberties Union" (whoops, taken), or "The
        Society for the Preservation of Cyberspatial Liberty."
"
        "Evolution in action. The market in action. A better approach
        than trying to get the name and the charter changed."

   A market in action...

ps: messages from the great philosopher Stephen D. Williams? 77 in
total, stopped posting in 1995 - messages are either content free or
nerdy, useless, technical stuff.


   And firewalls:
   [3]http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls/archive/firewalls.199502
   We were talking about crypographic and security related topics, like
   firewalls and protocols, time stamping services (which I implemented a
   couple times for widely used services), etc.  I even found time to
   correct Tim May, who cried uncle sort of. ;-)  I happened to have
   personal knowledge of that situation.
   I wasn't mature enough to philosophize much then.
   I lurked later, being extremely busy implementing things and other
   pursuits.
   sdw

References

   1. mailto:tcmay@got.net
   2. mailto:cypherpunks@toad.com
   3. http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls/archive/firewalls.199502