Resentment? I'm not resentful. I'm engulfed in a melange of shock, horror, and hillarity. The insanity of man against man, and the hoops they'll jump through to get satisfaction. After all, it's not entertainment but satisfaction that is what drives mankind. What consensus might that be? The 'crypto-anarchy' good-old-boy consensus? The Freidman'esk "making money justifies all wrongs" contingent? The "It's wrong they regulate any of my actions, but I'm going to regulate yours."? team. Or perhaps "I'm too damn lazy to start my own node and take the heat but I'll sure bitch and whine when others don't do as I say" clan? There is no authority on 'the' list because there are 8 lists that share a common backbone (by consensus of the operators, not users, I might add). The only parties who have authority to impose any sort of list behaviour regulations are the specific operators of those mail reflectors. We have several that limit what goes out to their subscribers, I don't believe we have any that limit what their subscribers may submit. However, that is clearly within the scope of the current agreement. Start a list and filter both ends. A 2-way list if you will ;) I would think that a group so sophisticated as you claim to be, and as motivated by money would recognize the simple dicta "Money speaks". What you boys are pissed off 'bout is that it's my money doin' the speakin' and it ain't what ya expected. The majority of subscribers don't ever post, they sit there and get the occassional techie item and sit about laughing their asses off. I'm glad they find joy and humor in this. It is after all hilarious at times. Do what you will, start your own list, filter me, start another node, keep bitching. Whatever. If I have something to say I'm going to say it. I'll do my best to keep it short and too the point. I don't make any promise it will be related to any point you might have however. After all, how serious can you take somebody who is more concerned about the word 'whore' and 'police' in the same sentence than the fact that the sentence is even being considered at all? Pull your head out of your ass. If western civilization is going to tumble down because of my .sig then it's already dead. Duh. On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
Jim is unusual in that his resentment is also directed towards the consensus position on how people should behave on the list (the closest thing to a 'authority' which exists in cypherpunks).
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