If you want to do something like Raph's remailer list, would you rather implement it on a pc running windows or with a perl script on a unix box?
Not to prolong this argument, which hopefully won't turn into a lengthy OS debate, but this argument boils down to the "users vs. developers" situation. Sure, remailers and remailer lists are better implemented under unix, and there may be as many as what, 50 people (developers) in the world interested in doing this? On the other hand, several times that number of users will access the information and actually give it value; they (users) don't need unix at all. Maybe I'm a market share bigot, but to me, if you want to spread crypto to the masses, you have to do it with tools that run on the platforms the masses use. Who knows, perhaps in the future we'll see that the tools, programs, and front ends run on more popular operating systems, and the relatively fewer servers and scripts run on unix. -- Karl L. Barrus <klbarrus@infocom.net>