At 3:25 AM 8/14/96 Moscow Time, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTD wrote:
"Greg Kucharo" <sophi@best.com> writes:
While Tim may be right that nobility is lost when backing down to the authorities, the fact is that this game has little to do with noble purposes. ...
Nor was there any activity from the authorities.
A while back, when Vince first started advertizing his site, I asked him a few hypothetical questions, and he said roughly this: If client X posts something to Usenet from Vince's site, and if Y dislikes X's article so much that he mailbombs X, then Vince would pull X's plug. (I have the exact quote saved.) I lost interest right then. I'm not surprised that Vince acted dishonorably by pulling a client's plug with no warning for a very flimsy reason.
"Acted dishonorably"? Really, Dimitri, are all Russians this rude? (Seeing the battles on Usenet between the "Sovoks" and the "Gruborbots," I'm beginning to think so.) While I think the Anguilla situation is an interesting one to analyze, I avoid such loaded terms as "dishonorable." --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" 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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."