At 04:50 PM 6/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
And so this was very probably what Duncan meant when he said some of the ranting faction were the inventors of remailers.
(Both Eric and Hugh are known to rant, or at least have done so at various times. Eric had some memorable rants at the 1995 CFP when he loudly declared to the National Research Council fact-finding committee, "I am a crypto anarchist.") ... I'm satisfied with my contributions, even if you think the ranters are doing nothing to help the causes you apparently support.
For an almost totally off-topic followup, there was a religious sect in England in the mid-1600s called the "Ranters"; one of the books by Quaker writer Robert Barclay is called "Anarchy of the Ranters" (he was against them ...) Here on Cypherpunks, we've got the "Ranting of the Anarchists" :-) Another writer on the Net, who's more pro-Ranter, says that
No evidence suggests that any Ranter ever took an interest in Islam. However, there exists some reason to believe in connections between Ranterism and piracy. A "Ranter's Bay" in Madagascar sheltered a pirate utopia later in the 17th century, and a number of Ranters were exiled to the Caribbean during the "Golden Age of Piracy" there.
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