Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 3-Apr-94 Re: Cyberspace, Crypto Ana.. by Hal@shell.portal.com
Suppose, as Tim implies, that the list someday evolved to be some kind of virtual list, hosted on a flexible network of machines around the globe. Who would the owners be then?
As you said, no one. It would be pretty much a park in cyberspace. If however, it remained in the hands of a small number of people, it would be controlled by them ("their house"). Jer darklord@cmu.edu | "it's not a matter of rights / it's just a matter of war finger me for my | don't have a reason to fight / they never had one before" Geek Code and | -Ministry, "Hero" PGP public key | http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr25/jbde/