At 1:03 AM -0500 2/11/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 09:49 PM 2/10/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Nevertheless, I came across as abrasive and offended members of this forum. _Ladies_ & Gentlemen, you have my apologies for both my breach of decorum and disrespect. Such was certainly not my intention.
We should kill it before it multiplies. No human being speaks in such a stilted, phony way. [...] This chick can be for real. It must be another troll.
Hmm. I just responded to Aimee's message, and so I may have just been trolled. But I rise to the defense of human sentience here: I don't think an AI would have bothered to ask us about such an inane sociological tract...
Another theory is that Aimee actually thinks that all cypherpunks subscribers are pleasant, decent, and reasonable people who should be treated politely. I'm sure folks -- is Choate around? -- will disabuse her of this notion straightaway.
On my planet, people talk to each other in a pleasant, decent, and reasonable way by actually _talking_ to them. That is, by listening, responding, making points, etc. In particular, when the arrive on new lists they spend a few days determining who is who and what is what. They don't spew stilted jargon to lists which they are new to. I still vote that we find our where it lives and kill it before it multiplies. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns