-----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Anonymous Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:01 PM To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide

R.A. Hettinga spoke thusly...

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<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/printjj20050304.shtml>

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An inglorious suicide Jeff Jacoby (back to web version) | Send

March 4, 2005

Hunter Thompson's suicide was an act of selfishness and

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depraved by far has been the celebration of that suicide by

cruelty. But more those who

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supposedly loved or admired him.

What does this have to do with cypherpunks? This is not your personal blog. Most of the list traffic is forwarded or cross-posted news articles, but how is HST's suicide remotely on-topic?

I absolutely agree. The value of Hettinga's posts to Cypherpunks and the Cryptography list has absolutely gone down the tubes, to the point where I have had to write special filter rules to isolate his posts from the actual content. The dozen or so full-length article on HST have simply no relevance to either list. If he had any respect for others at all, he'd give the URL and a couple lines of summary. Or even better is your suggestion that he use his own blog, or set up his own mailing list instead of spamming the lists with off-topic crap. His behaviour has sunk his reputation well into the Choate/Matt Taylor range. Peter Trei