-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <9412021551.AA04657@snark.imsi.com>, Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com> wrote:
John Schofield says:
It is silly to talk of someone "owning" the list. The list is a community. The only possible owners are the people in the community. If we all left, Eric would still have control over the list--but the list would be worthless.
It is silly to talk of someone "owning" a restaurant. The restaurant is a community. The only possible owners are the people in the community. If the patrons all left, Chef Joey would still have control over the restaurant -- but the restaurant would be worthless.
You continue to confuse (deliberately?) a community with the place it meets. "List" is being used in two senses -- and you continue to interpret it only as the instance of majordomo on toad.com. That's a worthless interpretation as nobody disputes that Eric controls that agent. As far as I'm concerned, if a message has gone out to every address on the "cypherpunks" list, I don't give a shit whether or not it went through toad.com first: it went to cypherpunks. - -- Todd Masco | "Roam home to a dome, Where Georgian and Gothic once stood cactus@hks.net | Now chemical bonds alone guard our blond(e)s, cactus@bb.com | And even the plumbing looks good." - B Fuller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBFAwUBLt9v/CoZzwIn1bdtAQFY6gGA0EVd9/2BIoe5ORzfPePZxxoA7WJs/jkm PEMkdRGJNpih+x6xLOnlv2+BoBTdEXgj =Qrv2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address belonging to the signature and forwarded.]