At 2:04 PM 2/14/96, Robert Hettinga wrote:
Perry and Tim,
Why don't you two have sex already? The tension around here is getting unbearable...
And why don't you stop cluttering up the list with supposedly cute stuff like this? The couple of fairly short messages I've written in response to comments by Perry are *as nothing* compared to the tons of verbiage in the Jim Bell flame wars, the VZNUri/Detweiler flames, and even the Black Unicorn vs. Netscape battle. (If anyone can point to examples where I have engaged in protracted--more than a couple of short messages--flames, please send me pointers to these examples in private mail. I claim no especial morality, but I do think I've stayed out of ongoing flame wars. I haven't even commented on "assassination politics," even though it's just a watered-down and poorly-thought-out version of what I wrote about in 1988...easier to just delete the ramblings.) And yet people like Bob and Uni feel compelled to throw their two cents in about what a spectacle this is. Get real. --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."