Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 07:47:29 -0800 From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes) I desire the public forum. I desire anonymous speech. I desire pseudonymous persons. Usenet does not allow these simultaneously, therefore it is broken for me. Therefore I desire usenet as it is constituted now to die... I admire your honesty; a lot of cypherpunks weren't willing to say this the last time we had this flame war. I desire that Usenet live for now, because even though it does not provide simulatneously the features of public forum and anonymous speach, it does solve the public forum problem relatively well, and as such, is providing a certain amount of societal good to the world. If we want both, then we should design and implement a system that has both. It doesn't necessarily follow that it's all constructive to tear down an institution that does what it was designed to do well, and but unfortunately doesn't happen meet your new requirements. Build the new and better system first, before trying to tear down the old one. - Ted