Tim expounds:
I haven't been posting here a lot for various reasons.
First, the quality of the responses has not been good. It seems repartee and tired Nazi vs. Stalinist debate is the norm, with Choatian physics and Choatian history filling in the gaps.
It's been a slow politics and cryptography year. The list is full of spam, and vandals keep subscribing it to other mailing lists. Perhaps next year will be better. I'm almost begining to feel that Cryptology has achieved the status of a "Mature Science."
Second, and perhaps related to the first point, a lot of folks have retreated to the safety of filtered lists, where Lewis and Perry can screen messages for them.
I'm currently amusing myself on DetweilerPunks. Also known as Theory-Edge, moderated by Vladimir Z. Nuri. http://www.egroups.com/group/theory-edge, if anyone wants to visit.
Fourth, as with my new .sig, the election has caused me to "move on," at least until the direction of things is determined.
Yes, a tasteful .sig designed not to cause public alarm, until the Shrub Administration's interpretation of our Constitution is clarified. I suspect we are entering an era in which even vague hints concerning a sticky end for tyrants can get one arrested.
He speaks of liquidating middlemen, I speak of liquidating tens of millions of welfare varmints, useless eaters, and politicians.
And for this they call him a visionary and me a Nazi. Go figure.
You need to moderate your views on non-producing eaters in the same way you moderated your .sig file. A new Tim for a new decade. So, when's the next Jim Bell trial? Anyone know? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"