On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
Importantly, I'm including my own words, explicitly. Sorry to burst _our_ bubbles, but I just don't think the lawmakers and burrowcrats are being driven by loose talk by us.
Perhaps not the lawmakers, but... There was this moment last summer, on a Friday, when loose talk on the cp-list (and, explicitly, some comments from TC May) made me 99% sure that selling Netscape stock (short) would be a great idea. Still next Monday it sold for something like $145. Next Wednesday it fell to around $120. I know for sure that if I had been in a position then to conveniently (and immediately) act on the NY Stock Exchange (which I was not) I would have risked something like $5,000 on such a deal - I'm not rich but so strong was the cypherpunkish momentum towards this development. Asgaard