On Sun, 15 Jan 1995 rishab@dxm.ernet.in wrote:
WIRED 3.02 (February) interviews Jude Milhon (St. Jude) who "is a charter member of the cypherpunks - a term that she coined." I didn't even know there _was_ a charter. The interview as such is mainly about why "girls _need_ modems."
WiReD. What a waste of pulp; worse, what a waste of potential. A magazine that could have held the hands of aol novices and led them into the real net.world, and promoted freenets, and demonstrated the need for cryptosystems, and challenged the minds of net citizens decided to take the low road and become "USA Today" (for cypherpunks abroad, "USA-T" is a `newspaper' that looks like a big comic book, and doesn't trouble its readers with many syllables ... rather like Prodigy ...). ==a.j.== -- "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits