Sandy Sandfort wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
In practice, a debit card must be tied to a bank account with a valid SS#. You try something suspicious and the IRS will debit the account $500 and/or freeze it.
Not if it's a foreign bank account.
Sandy, This is not intended as a flame, but I think one of us is crazy here (and I'm getting weekend passes from the 'home', so it can't be me). I am finding it hard to understand how the same people who seemed dedicated to silencing Dr. DV K on this list can then turn around and 'correct' him, or 'add to' his comments, or 'one-up' him in the insult department. It certainly lends fuel to his claim that moderation will be merely a one-way censorship process, as did the plethora of comments (from 'purported' adults), as the espoused date of the beginning of moderation drew near, whereupon various missives were launched by the 'righteous', taking 'parting shots' at those whom they assumed would be relegated to the CypherPunks Flame Camps. I have no quarrel with whatever is done in regard to this list, since it is essentially a private list, but I am rather mystified at the seemingly self-delusional aspects of instituting this nebulous moderation process. Toto