what is all this @#$%^&* about MANDATORY SIGNATURES ON THE CYPHERPUNKS LIST? who is Eric Hughes, DOROTHY DENNING??? who is going to force ME how to use cryptography??? a CYPHERPUNK??? this is BULLSHIT. eric hughes is a TRAITOR TO THE CYPHERPUNK CAUSE. it's so transparently obvious, this is nothing but a big ego ploy. "Look at me!!! I am cool!!! I have accomplished virtually nothing substantial in any cypherpunk area for a long time, all my major recent projects are failures that have gone nowhere, I don't follow my own rules of 'code, code, code', not 'blather, blather, blather', and this is one way I can stroke my ego and show off my utter brilliance in the lack of anything useful!!!" has he written one smidgeon of code to back up his ideas? NO!!! he has philosophized and pontificated about his IDEAS that he is PLANNING to put into code. frankly, I see absolutely NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER of the perseverence required to build a solid foundation in this noisy bozo. he flames away against the people who are REALLY doing something. what is this about "founding" the cypherpunks? no one is my leader, I am not a part of a movement that takes credit for MY hardworking accomplishments as glory for "founders". why don't someone ask him why he went to go work with Chaum a long time ago and CAME BACK. I'll give you a hint: HE DIDN'T CUT THE MUSTARD. ask him why he hasn't graduated from college!! hint: HE DIDN'T CUT THE MUSTARD. he is paralyzed by his own perfectionism straightjacket, rather than building SOMETHING that works haphazardly he builds NOTHING that works AT ALL. oh, so he built a remailer. BIG DEAL. what kind of brains does it take to call sendmail with a message? to cut off headers on a file? good lord, how many commands in SED is this? so he wrote it in PERL??? *wow*, I am *really* impressed now!!! this is BS!!!! let's find a NEW LIST. a list is a COMMUNITY PROPERTY. anyone who pulls this kind of prickery, insinuating they are in the "bully pulpit", deserves CYPERSPATIAL EXCOMMUNICATION for HIGH TREASON TO THE CYPHERPUNK CAUSE of TOTAL AUTONOMY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL.