Some of you may think this is a trivial correction, but I think it important, albeit bizarre: At 2:41 AM 11/5/95, Rich Graves wrote:
On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
Rich's (or Chris') points are admirable, but getting more and more irrelevant by the day. The notion of unlinking identity and authorization by separate pieces of identification is another form of "security through obscurity."
No, that is NOT what I wrote. It has been changed, with no indication that it is not what I wrote. If you check my original you'll find that what I wrote was: --- Chris's (or Chris') points are admirable, but getting more and more irrelevant by the day. The notion of unlinking identity and authorization by separate pieces of identification is another form of "security through obscurity." --- I can guess why Rich "corrected" my post, but he was in error for at least two reasons. First, because he didn't indicate that he'd corrected me. Second, because my item did not need correction. I originally wrote "Chris's," referring to Chris Hibbert, and then thought about the grammatical rules about forming possessives out of words ending in "s," and so I added the alternative "(or Chris')". Perhaps a minor point, and not one I'll lose sleep over, but I think it a bad thing to _ever_ correct the words of another in quoted material without indicating so. Editors who worry about typos and misspellings in quoted material usually put a "[sic]" in the text, mainly, I think, to let themselves off the hook for letting an error through. (Though I think another reason is to show graphically the igorance [sic] of the quoted author.) This point about Rich's post should not distract from his good comments that I responded to (or the points in the post that contained this correction, points I have not yet read). --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."