On Sat, 21 Jan 1995, Mike Duvos wrote:
hkhenson@cup.portal.com writes: [. . .]
AA BBS is up to about 25,000 files. There is a good chance that they will be available through the internet at some point.
It strikes me that this would be the perfect way to generate consumer interest in anonymous digital cash protocols [. . . .]
Actually, this strikes me as a worst case scenario as far as promoting cryptography goes. Don't get me wrong--I have no interest in telling people they can't look at whatever pictures they want, or prevent others from selling those pictures to them. But...to make such a close association between what Joe Public considers degenerate trash and cryptography.... The "cause" will do much better if the first major association is made with something much less controversial. Girl Scout cookies, say. b& -- Ben.Goren@asu.edu, Arizona State University School of Music Finger ben@tux.music.asu.edu for PGP public key ID 0xCFF23BD5.