At 1:00 AM 2/4/96, lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:
Meanwhile, I think I can safely say that from this point on I need to dot all my i's and cross all my t's until I graduate from UMass. Suppose it turned out that no-one wanted to sit on my thesis committee ? I'm sure anyone who's been through grad school can imagine other disturbing hypothetical scenarios.
James Donald may characterize me as gutless. I think he would probably be correct to some extent.
I think Lewis McCarthy was very brave to put up the Zundelsite mirror. (Maybe unwise, too.) It's certainly not something most of the rest of us are doing on our sites at universities, corporations, and even private sites. (Many ISPs will drop a customer who creates any trouble.) And it's sad that the couple of days of the UMass Zundelsite's effect, even now being lost in the "spin" coming from the German press about how UMass forced the removal of the site, will perhaps result in a much lower public presence by Lewis. (From what I've seen at California universities, the folks with the long knives will still be trying to "get him." Unfortunately, with search tools like Alta Vista they can keep tabs on him semi-automatically and report any further evidence of his racist, mysogynistic, and anti-democratic views to the Dean of Students.) (I could add a smiley here, but it's really not very funny.) --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."