>From: Jim Choate
>Reply-To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
>To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
>Subject: Re: The Culture of Secrecy, Disinformation, and , Propaganda...
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:27:22 -0500 (CDT)
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>On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> > I don't know if Jim meant to send that reply about Usenet;
> > the sentence was chopped off in the middle, just after the
> > glaring incorrectness :-)
>
> > Jim Choate replied to Ray Dillinger:
> >
> > > > Usenet is an example of a system which is fully distributed.
> > > Actually this has the same limitations as the 'Napster' model,
> > > it requires a centralized
>
>Ah, not sure why that did that...
>
>But, more to the point - you shouldn't try to read minds and draw
>conclusions from sentence fragments. You are not a good mind reader.
>
>.... a centralized group of servers to distributed not only content but
>the indexes. The only real distinction between the two is where the
>content resides, not a significant distiction since the system still has
>centralized servers.
>
>But more importantly the original claim which you just jumped right over
>about the intellectual property being somehow different between USENET and
>Napster and that if Napster fell down it would take significantly longer
>to recover than USENET is simply bogus.
>
>More 'let's give Jim shit because he keeps poking holes in our favorite
>thoeries' than 'stick to the topic at hand'.
>
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