Mr. Barnes, obviously deeply upset, emotionally objects to my simple questions, but not ever directly, but implicitly buried and obscured in the most spectacular set of ad hominem attacks I have ever been privileged to find in my mailbox, outside of His Royal Eminence. Mr. Barnes, I would be interested in your own responses to that set of questions, or your reasons for why you should not have to answer them. Do you think they represent a `witchhunt'? perhaps an `inquisition'? Would you like me to show you my own responses, to help you figure out how to understand them? are they too complicated for you? are they an invasion of your privacy? would you be embarassed by the answers? would you have to lie to evade incrimination? do you wish to deceive others of your pseudospoofing?
I used to think you were kind of funny. This stopped about the time you (quite seriously, and in some detail) compared me to Darth Vader... I convinced you I wasn't the "Hydra", so I was just a seducing minion.
Mr. Barnes, you tried to convince me of the Joy of Pseudospoofing, for which I suggested you were trying to convert me to the Dark Side (actually, I am indebtedly grateful for that beautiful inspiration for my essay). You told me that E.Hughes' lectures on the subject of pseudospoofing were what drew you to it in the first place! But this is buried very deep in my comprehensive archives, from many weeks ago. (I encourage all other cypherpunks to keep very good archives, because some day we will be able to separate all the pseudospoofed identities from real ones, and it will be quite shocking, I assure you. Some prominent cypherpunks are extremely terrified and staunchly opposed to archives, for obvious reasons.)
you have done more than anyone else to disrupt this list and make it next to impossible for real work to get done on it (including work that would help mitigate problems of the kind you believe your "enemies" are perpetrating on you.)
No one is interested in preventing pseudospoofing here, quite to the contrary they are interested in secretly pursing it at the expense of others, including their own associates in this group,it is the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, and I am quite repulsed by your baldfaced lie in the face of reality and my oceans of fanatic hate mail (which yours is only the latest on the pile). I asked many weeks ago that E.Hughes and T.C.May condemn pseudospoofing. They had problems doing so, for obvious reasons! I asked that they prohibit it from this list, or ask promises to refrain from it. Again, an outrageous demand, apparently, based on the response. I asked that they reveal their own practice! I have been continually whittling down my demands, and have every time been rebuffed. Honest cypherpunks, why is that? do you care if other people are systematically deceiving you? When will you be free of the jaws of this delusion? I am even offering to GO AWAY COMPLETELY if some SIMPLE QUESTIONS are ANSWERED HONESTLY. As for disruptions in the list, it is a fantasy that *I* have caused any over its lifetime. It is the evasions and the stonewalling that have caused all the *recent* commotion! it is the rampant pseudospoofing that has poisoned `real work', and you make me your scapegoat and martyr for its evils and your own depravity and perversions.
You persist in baiting the less-restrained members of the list with your antaigonistic, paranoid, policial/social rants, which have accomplished nothing producive, except to sap the energy of people who would otherwise be writing code, engaging in PR for our cause, educating one another, and working towards a consensus or at least an honest delineation of where we disagree as mature individuals (rather than characterizing folks as evil spawn of darkness).
Nothing but stark and utter lies. You blame the `movements' shortcomings on myself, one person who has had the audacity to challenge those who wish to promote their secret conspiracies of pseudospoofing. PSEUDOSPOOFING IS THE ONLY ISSUE. I have done everything productive to sap the energy of those writing code solely to promote their pseudospoofing, engaging in false PR for the cause of `Privacy for the Masses' or the `Cryptographic Revolution' when in fact it is all nothing but deception and lies in favor of pseudospoofing, and conspiring between one another--And I have been flamed into oblivion by snakes and tentacles who urinate on Democracy and Consensus and anything Egalitarian, so do not assault me with your hypocrisies about `working towards a consensus' or `an honest delineation of where we disagree as mature individuals', because there is nothing here but PUERILE PSEUDOSPOOFING FANTASIES.
Note that your postmaster, when I contacted him, made it clear that he had instructed you to stop doing whatever it was you were doing that was upsetting people so much.
I wonder how your postmaster would feel about pseudospoofing. Or are you your own postmaster? Or does E.Hughes help maintain your site? Those who mail my postmaster are nothing but vile and shameful cowards with machine gun arsenals assaulting a man who has attempted to expose frauds, poseurs, and hypocrites with nothing but his bare hands and the Truth. You are such a slimy hypocrite, to have never have even used the word `pseudospoofing' once in your little rant, only to say that I am `upsetting people so much'.
you have turned this thing into a nonsensical, paranoid, one-man jihad against cypherpunks on a variety of *other* lists, while continuing your activities on this one.
`jihad'? well, yes, I would call your pseudoreligion precisely that. very curious how many lists they have invaded and infiltrated and littered with their eloquent prose for Glorious Privacy, True Anonymity, Liberating Cash, and No Oppresive Identification, yourself included. Perhaps you would like to indicate what lists that other cypherpunks are on, and what they have said there? (Reminds me of my essay in RISKS -- have you seen that, by chance?) What is your own knowledge on the the subject, hm? Can I ask without you going into seizures or convulsions?
I intend to go beyond your postmaster on the next try, to various former classmates and old friends of mine who are computation center employees, faculty, and administration members at CSU now.
Anyone I respect will not ask me to compromise my ethics. Unfortunately, you do not meet this criteria.
Unless, of course, you cut this shit out and leave us alone, or at least go back on whatever medication you were taking before you went from a mildly annoying over- eager wannabe to a full-fledged psychopath.
it is the pseudospoofing psychopunks who are the full-fledged psychopaths. I will leave when the so-called `leadership' answers some simple questions truthfully. Look, honest cypherpunks, OPEN YOUR EYES, see to what extreme lengths that they have gone to, to deceive you of their pseudospoofing, and EVADE AND STONEWALL. Reminds me of someone talking about `betrayal, treachery, and high treason'! You can have your secret conspiracies, xor your public credibility, for the moment. some day, you will have neither. I suppose you could censor me, too. Maybe E.Hughes could conduct a little poll, and state that the majority decided to censor me. Oh, wait, you guys don't believe in polls and voting and the majority. The Majority is Always Wrong. Well, let's see, I guess Mr. Hughes could decide to unilaterally censor me. But that wouldn't seem to be compatible with the cypherpunk charter. I was looking at it recently! (soda.berkeley.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/brainwashing). it said that `cypherpunks do not seek to prevent others from speaking' or something like that. Maybe E.Hughes will change the charter and throw me out. You guys in California could do that at your next monthly `conspiracy'. BTW, when is it? What do you do at those great meetings, anyway, Mr. Barnes? I asked that someone provide minutes, so that everyone on the list may share in the lovely `movement', but there was a lot of hostility to that idea. Why could that be? Mr. Barnes, please let me know how the CA group decides to persecute me further, beyond all the depravities I have been subject to so far. I do appreciate your indicating that you are going to attempt to blackmail me through close associates, it's a fair warning. Clearly, `they' are desperate. The facade is crumbling. Imagine, all this fantastic hostility directed solely at me, for asking some wholly innocuous questions. Cypherpunks, why is everyone so upset? It makes me wonder if there is a core group hiding something or covering something up. a `conspiracy'? (hee, hee, love that word). Maybe I would have to move to CA to find out, eh? Once again, I volunteer to leave if they are answered truthfully and publicly revealed!