At 08:45 AM 10/17/96 -0700, you wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
It is a great honor to meet a net.legent in person.
I hope Dimitri will stop hidding behind his computer and "honor" us with his presence at an SF Bay area Cypherpunks meeting. I've got pledges for nearly $1200 to bring him out here to speak. All we need now is a serious response from Dimitri. I guess when the going gets tough, the "net legends" get yellow. What are you afraid of Dimitri?
I can understand what he has to be afraid of. It is one thing to be a harassing bastard on the net. It is another to have to defend your actions to those people face to face. Dimitri has made insulting remarks about myself and good friends. He has been abusive and obnoxious all over the face of the net. I can see how some people might take that personally. (I would not do him personal harm. Ask him why he feels he needs to be a flaming asshole maybe...) I killfiled Dimitri because there was no use talking to him and no use listening to him. Currently he has taken the tact of posting news when his reputation capitol reaches into the heavy negative numbers. (And I still filter them all into the trash because I cannot trust him to not forge the posts into something containing something the author did not write or intend.) There are others I do not argue with for other, similar, reasons. It is pointless to debate with the closed minded and the compulsive flamers. (If I wanted to listen to compulsive juvenile flame I would go hang out on WWIV BBSes. It least there you know the people are probably fourteen, not just acting like it...) The only purpose such debate will ever serve is to influence the onlookers. The point is probably moot anyways. I doubt if I will get to any of the California meetings any time in the near future. (Work is hell, but at least it pays something. Unlike the regular brand of hell.) --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano@teleport.com |