attila@primenet.com wrote:
In <9611300437.AA05806@adsl-122.cais.com>, on 11/29/96 at 11:37 PM, Tim Scanlon <tfs@adsl-122.cais.com> said: ::(with apoligies to attila, who all this was NOT directed at) Tim Scanlon no, I didn't read it that way, Tim. thanx for the tag though!
[snip] I hope a lot of people read this - an excellent post in spite of the paranoia. However, there's a suggestion below (and perhaps in the [snip]) that government would use the rants by "aga" and the famous "Doctor" to cut back on freedom, that somehow it would prove that cypherpunks are inherently or latently "crazy" or whatever. It's never been my impression that those kinds of rants had anything to do with govt. clampdowns, in fact, the clamping down would more likely follow the cypherpunks' heavy-handed responses to said rants. Seems to me that teaching how to filter would be the universal solution.
None of us are above a little sarcasm --but let's get the vituperative effluent out of the system. do whatever you wish in private mail, but keep the profane rantings off the list. this goes for you, Dimitri; and "aga" too.