William H. Geiger III writes:
Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!
William Reinsch is a lying bastard. Fucking politions!! Fucking goverment!! They all deserve a long rope!!
It is perhaps a point in Dr. Denning's favor that her most vitriolic detractors can spell neither "Dorothy" nor "fascist". I must admit that I am at a loss to understand the heat which Dorothy Denning generates on the Cypherpunks list, which seems to be second only to the heat generated by posting recipes for roast feline in rec.pets.cats. All of the people I know who have met her find her to be a pleasant person, and the occasional Email messages we have exchanged have certainly been positive and friendly. While she tends to view the Four Horsemen of the Infocolypse as a bit more threatening than the typical Cypherpunk, I don't think her views are so extreme as to justify the continuous screams of "crypto toady", "government suckup", and "wicked witch" which seem to pop up in response to her every utterance. I would even go so far as to say that this list would be a lot more entertaining if she were contributing to it, and sci.crypt is certainly a less interesting place now than it was in bygone days when she was posting there. Perhaps Tim can add his own thoughts to this thread. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $