The latest LD rant talks about the great cypherpunk cause, to which he has lent his time, and how it has been "contaminated", "tainted", and "poisoned" by EVIL TREACHEROUS individuals on this group. These individuals have misrepresented "basic cypherpunk goals" Finally, he demands reparation for his "mental anguish" from Tim May to be posted to talk.politics.crypto. I have a sudden urge to say "Get a Life" for some reason. I think Detweiler was operating under some kind of delusion when he joined this list which is responsible for his anguish. From my analysis, it seems LD was under the impression that he was joining some great social activist movement similar to all the other fringe groups out there, and that the cypherpunks had some noble cause of liberation/crypto-ethics. However, when I first subscribed to the list (roughly a few weeks after it was set up), I was told the purpose of this group was to simply discuss crypto, implications of it, and coordination of crypto-projects like remailers, digicash systems, pgp, etc. Could it be that Lance is looking for ethics on a mailing list whose motto is "cypherpunks write code" (with no limitations on what kind of code that will be, including even pseudospoofing software) [ All of LD's points are technically incorrect anyway because crypto can be used for both authenication and privacy. (e.g. digital signatures being "accoutable" legally to the authority which certified/signed them. Contrary to his rants, digi-sig nyms can be as tracable as real signatures, even more so depending on how strict you are on your trust model)] We've been accused of being conspirators, evil traitors, exploiters, abusers, and who knows what else, and I'm getting annoyed by it. So I'm making a proposal. Let's implement Detweiler's philosophy of having everyone accountable. Using the Extropian's list software, this list could prevent anyone who isn't voice validated from posting to the list. And as a first step to improving S/N ratio, I recommend we use the list software's filtering features to outright censor Detweiler, and any other idiot ranters (plus all anonymous posters) from the list. I also recommend a list justice code similar to the Extropian's list where anyone can be PUNISHED for not obeying the Great and Holy Cypherpunk's cause. As a requirement of the NEW ORDER (under the new software), all new subscribers will be required to take a pledge of denouncing pseudospoofing in talk.politics.crypto before their posting priveleges are turned on. Sam Will The Cypherpunks Pledge: "I hereby proclaim that pseudospoofers are the most vile and disgusting criminals on the face of the earth. As a cypherpunk, I pledge to fight for a world where children go to sleep at night secure in the knowledge that anyone they meet will be who they claim they are."