Well, in the week or two since resubscribing to Cypherpunks, I've seen a trickle of postings about cryptography, security, and privacy, and a flood of insults, harangues, fighting words, and so on. Some of this reads more like a script from a Jerry Falwell TV spot than anything I recognize as "Cypherpunk" traffic. I don't care who's offended whom. I'm not interested in participating in a forum where the supposed topic is submerged underneath a lot of adolescent alpha primate chest-beating. I'm off to look for a mailing list where people are ACTUALLY DISCUSSING CRYPTOGRAPHY AND IMPLEMENTING CRYPTOSYSTEMS. This list may still be called "cypherpunks", but it doesn't have much cypherpunk left in it, as far as I can tell. Disgusted, Amanda Walker Senior Software Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation