-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03007804af2160f848b5@[207.167.93.63]>, on 02/07/97 at 05:03 PM, "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> said:
I'm also neither stupid nor disingenuous. I realize full well that Vulis probably made the claim because he knows Sandy works for the seller of Stronghold. Be that as it may, it is not proper for a censor employed by the seller of a product to decide that criticisms of his product are flamish. Would the list have countenanced censorship of criticisms of an RSADSI product if the list were being censored by an employee of RSADSI? And by letting Vulis make such a claim, and then having it quickly rebutted by other employees of C2Net, for example, Vulis would be shown to be spreading disinformation and his reputation capital would decline still further.
I had posted to the list earlier about the problem of moderation & reputation capital. I beleive that the moderation of a group has a negitive affect on building a reputation based system within the group. If all the spam & flames are filtered out from the list and we only see the "good" side of the posters then they will tend to gain greater reputation capital then they deserve. I do find the accusation that Sandy blocked the posting of a message critizing the company he works for rather troubling. Though there are several possibilities: 1 - It is just more FUD. 2 - Snafu. As I am sure everyone here is aware of that this happend more often than not with computer system. 3 - It's true. This would be realy sad and probably do irreparable harm to Sandy's reputation. I hope that it is #1 or #2 if it is #3 I doubt that I will stay any longer on the cypherpunks list. :( - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: I smashed a Window and saw... OS/2. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Registered User E-Secure v1.1 0000000 iQCVAwUBMvvFdI9Co1n+aLhhAQFiMAP/ayWg1hO7tBJz/CgQriPcRcKuDSLwzv+4 zZ7qJ+tcx3ULoubEBfBZ1q1+PfJ41Ka4668I1n5d8sOVt9Xw2iBY3F+46cpwZDDh 1Uz3Ybyw3giOPNQzxpw44/LmOz9RxPYUPERUDAxSfmgs4SG3845AXUCjRWaoiHbN 5c1iYu96OwQ= =Gjv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Tag-O-Matic: Windows? WINDOWS?!? Hahahahahehehehehohohoho...