Those who are so quick to act as apologists for the C2Nut blitzkreig on the anarchistic freedom of the CypherPunks list forget that by the end of the 'moderation experiment,' the mailing list had lost an estimated 6 million Jewish subscribers. It is likely that we would have lost even more, had it not been for the valiant efforts of Dimitri Vulis to warn us about murdering Armenian bastards in our midst. When the Johnboot of Fascism descended on the CypherPunks mailing list, the evil Dr. Sandfort was given free reign to do bizarre experiments with twin mailing lists, severing parts of toad.com's electronic brain into seperate sections, and producing a mutant clone which was passed off as the original entity. Unfortunately, the Electronic DNA of the mutant strain of the list was not stable, and began to disintegrate, resulting in a denigration of the mutant list body to the point where parts of its electronic body began to become corrupted, even falling completely off, at times. After the nuking of toad.com and Nagasaki, the list CypherSpace was divided up among the winners, with the Eastern Block under control of Comrade Chewd-Off, the Western Block was apparently liberated under the flag of InfoNex (although their ties to the C2Nut secret government remain in place), and Texas, as always, remained a seperate CypherPunk nation just south of Intel, with Commander in Chief Choate launching a bandwidth race to keep ahead of the Eastern Block. Currently there are calls for crypto disarmament coming from the peace-loving folks in DC, in the interests of making the world a safer place, but they are meeting resistance from crypto-guerillas who refuse to recognize that the war is over and it is time for us to ask, "Why can't we all just get along (a long toilet plunger and shove it up somebody's ass)." DigiCash remained neutral during the moderation experiment and denies that they are in possession of large sums of eca$h left with them for safekeeping by the missing Jewish members of the mailing list. There have been rumors that many of the leaders of the attack on the CypherPunks list escaped to Anguilla, a small island in the Caribbean, where they plotted an even greater conspiracy to take over all of cryptography by seizing control of the financial cryptography arena, but Herr Hettinga claims that it was simply a meeting of the Bavarian Illuminati. He denies any claim that there were closed meetings in which a secret alliance was formed with the Japanese, but recent activity by Jochi Ito has led many to suspect that this is indeed the case. In my private meetings with the remaining members of the CypherPunks mailing lists, each of them confirmed that they are members of one three-letter organization or another, although most of them continue to deny it in public. Kent Crispin and Phillip Hallam-Baker asked me to please not blow their 'covers,' so I will not comment on them directly. I hope that this clears things up for everybody. Now just try to forget all about it. RevisionMonger