Bryce <bryce@digicash.com> writes:
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Rule 2: Don't forward articles from other forums to cypherpunks. We can find it ourselves the same place you did
This is not universally true. Everyone doesn't have access to a functional News server or even to the Web, and some interesting stuff could come from closed commercial sites etc.
Yeah, my "rules" are mainly to intimidate newbies into holding still long enough to be properly socialized. Only the Meta-Rule is inviolate.
Thank you, Bryce, for an excellent quote. Indeed "cypher punks" control freaks are into indimidation and power games. No wonder there's so much intersection between the "cypher punks" and the Usenet news.* Cabal! "Cypher punks" have degenerated into an inbred cybermob whose goal in life is to "enforce" the "rules" that apply to "newbies" (more Cabal-speak) but not to the "in-crowd". Paul Bradley, the vitriolic flamer, is a good example of a "cypher punk". Paul doesn't know much about cryptography, but he's been harrassing Don Wood because Don Wood dared propose a cryprosystem. I haven't examined Don's proposal and don't know how good it is. Paul apparently FTP's Don's files but lacked the technical knowledge to understand the proposal. Paul first posted nonsensical attacks on Don's proposal (discussing a brute-force attack on one-time pad). When several people, including myself, pointed out that Paul was writing nonsense, Paul claimed that he mistyped "one-time pad" for "stream cypher". Although it's an entirely different animal, Paul's writings were still nonsense, even if one substituted "stream cypher" for "one-time pad". After being exposed as ignoramus, Paul abandoned attempts at technical discussion and turned to baiting Don with ad hominem attacks, calling him "master of bullshit", and putting "(spit)" after his name. Don reacted to Paul's provocation exactly once and rather mildly - calling Paul "fatbrain" in reference to his e-mail host. That was the last we heard from Don. Has the content-based censor John Gilmore pulled Don's plug as punishment for "inappropriate content"? Inquiring minds want to know. For the logorrhetics' reading pleasure, I reproduce another quote from Paul: ]From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk ]To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> ]Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:18:16 +0000 ]Subject: Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant. ]Message-Id: <843149202.18173.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk> ] ]> Yeah!!! And I'll bounce each mailbomb to everyone who tries it. Won't ]> that be fun. Too ba your netcom account won't last long. ] ]`Fraid not loser, I`ll just mailbomb your ass so bad you won`t know ]what hit you, and my account is on demon, who can handle my incoming ]mail (about 300 a day) without a problem, go ahead punk, make my ]day.. <sig> (Paul tried mailbombing me and was warned that his mailbombs will be bounced back to him.) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps