On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
Exactly so. This list, like so many other lists, is gradually moving toward "public politics" and "the law" as the focus of many members.
The "public politics" part is obvious: discussions of boycotts of Adobe, letter-writing campaigns to Washington, complaining about Ashcroft and Feinstein and all of the other vermin, and hand-wringing about the need for different laws.
The "law" part is about the above, and exhortations by the lawyers here (5, by my count) about what one mustn't do, how courts will react, the need to be scrupulously legal in all of one's actions, etc.
"Laws of mathematics, not men."
We risk becoming just a pale--a very, very pale!--imitation of the Cyberia-L list.
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