"Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net> writes:
There are people on this mailing list who appear to have very little techni expertise (e.g., can't figure out how an anonymous remailer works), contrib nothing but silly puerile flames to the discussion, and whose harassment ha caused Fred to stop contributing. They've deprived Fred of his right to spr and readers like me of our right to listen. This is censorship by bullying.
Now there you are wrong. No one forced Fred to stop posting to the list (I noticed that I just got a posting from him just yesterday, so he may have stopped since then), but no one deprived Fred of his right to speak. I don't see Eric Hughes standing up and saying "Fed, stop posting to the list", and I certainly note that his postings are getting through to the list. So, your statements regarding people harassing Fred, causing him to stop posting, etc., are just eyewash and an attempt to emotionally manipulate your audience by calling it "censorship".
Ed, I've met Eric Hughes. You're no Eric Hughes. The crypto people on this mailing list have asked people repeatedly to curtail non-crypto-related postings (most recently, Tim May, who started this thread). This is not censorship. The sliencing of Fred Cohen by a lynch mob of non-technicals (who, e.g., send e-mail twice) is a disturbing example of censorship. --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps