Tim May wrote:
I see a newcomer, Seth Finkelstein, harshly criticizing Declan and others. Easy to ignore someone who wasn't even here the day before yesterday.
Point of information: "nonconsentingly delurked" is more accurate than "newcomer". There's a few messages by me years ago in the archives, e.g. http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.95.12.13-95.12.19/msg00289.html http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.96.01.25-96.01.31/msg00432.html http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.96.02.22-96.02.28/msg00225.html http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.97.05.01-97.05.07/msg00107.html But I never was much into this list, and around 1997 I got extremely tired of endless Libertarianism mailing-list debates anywhere. I'm still happy to have you ignore me. And I did spend far more time on the issue than I should have. Declan's past conduct has played a significant role in my own thoughts about legal risk from free-speech activism. Ao my strong feelings led to me write more than perhaps was best. __ Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@mit.edu http://sethf.com