The mysterious mailing list (fwd)

There have been reports about a mailing list set-up at NIST that had a number of people on it including Mitch Kapor. The list is named "clipper" and it was through that list that part of the Wire Tap Chip announcement came. I asked Mitch directly, what is involvement with that list was; I asked him if he was involved with the development of the Wire Tap Chip. Below is is reply. I believe him. /harry a conscious being, Mitchell Kapor wrote:

From mkapor@eff.org Wed Apr 17 23:11:38 1993 Message-Id: <199304181111.AA05559@eff.org> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 07:11:38 -0800 To: habs@Panix.Com From: Mitchell Kapor Subject: The mysterious mailing list

I believe the list in the question is an informational list set up at NIST. My name was placed on it. I did not ask to be put on such a list. We were (obviously) not involved in the development of Clipper.

I was sent the Clipper announcement fact sheet, for instance.

There has been a small amount of traffic on it, none of it consequential.

I would appreciate it if you would make these facts known.

I have told Mitch I will put this info out and have asked that he make clipper list mail public at some FTP site. I have also asked him when he started getting traffic from this list. /harry -- Harry Shapiro habs@panix.com List Administrator of the Extropy Institute Mailing List Private Communication for the Extropian Community since 1991