Simon Spero writes:
Ever since most of the hard crypto content moved to coderpunks, there have been a lot of totally non-crypto political postings that make my skin crawl. [...] I kinda miss the Perrygrams :)
Well, there aren't going to be any more of them. Lots of people complained. "You're a fascist" they said. "We can post whatever we want, and you can't stop us. Nya Nya Nya." The intellectual level of of the counterarguments was more or less that possessed by six year olds, but it didn't matter -- they not only claimed their right to piss in the communal coffee pot if they wanted to, but they went on to exercise this right. Well, now they all get to drink it. Some of the people who couldn't help but take a leak in the well whenever they passed it by got upset that coderpunks drew off all the crypto talk. Well, actually, there was no crypto talk left. It would have been nice to keep one list, but some people insisted on exercising their right to be stupid in public over and over again and it got to be too much. It used to be that I turned to cypherpunks first to get news of breaking cryptography policy interest and breaking cryptography information. Now there doesn't seem to be anyone left here who gives a damn about cryptography -- even big news like MD5 getting nuked doesn't make it above the noise levels. I'm expecting that I'll unsubscribe from this thalidimide parody of a cryptography mailing list within a few weeks. Perhaps I'll start an alternative place to discuss cryptography policy that explicitly has the policy of tossing off people who want to post irrelevancies. I suppose then the rest of the crowd can just turn the filters up or whatever it is claimed one is supposed to do to find something worth reading in the cesspit. Perry