This illustrates what a liability the poster has become to the cypherpunks. The group is becoming just another militia front, identified with racism and white supremacy, applauding violent murder of government agents, one step from applauding the Oklahoma killings. Its original purpose all but forgotten, the list has died, poisoned by the hatred flowing from its leader.
At the risk of responding to a post which has a good probability of being a troll I will at least say that the above opinion may be that of several members, but the fact is the list has evolved, it never had an original defined purpose, at least not one easily put into words, and applauding murder of government agents is a part of the whole strong crypto privacy and liberty ethic. As for white supremacy, look elsewhere, I think you`ll find Tim`s post an example of what the developed world knows as humour, not a serious attack on any ethnic group. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"