"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com> writes:
That was very manipulative, and did not achieve much.
I wholely disagree. Tim's post to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children was a valuable exercise even given its limitations.
I agree.. what if he posted it as some silly program in one of the sources groups, encrypted and all, with a description as something almost no one would want? then the worst that would happen is people flaming him for encrypting it.. that would be a way to go for a real post to convey information.. we could always create an alt.too.many.secrets (obligatory documentary movie reference =]) to post things to where there is a large audience, but for an audience of people who care about such issues, as opposed to a normal post which joe random user could argue with everyone without knowing the difference between a pgp encrypted and uuencoded file. the other issue is that people will think what they want to think if they're uninformed, such as all of the people who flamed Tim for posting what's basically a worthless message, just that those people who flamed him didn't like the name of the group he posted it in.. for all we know, he could've posted his local /etc/hosts. -- Mike Sherwood internet: mike@EGFABT.ORG uucp: ...!sgiblab!egfabt!mike