Re: ISPs' information on users
At 2:43 PM 9/25/96, Phil Fraering wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
(There's a certain new ISP with tight links to a quasi-religious group much in the news lately, and some have speculated that this ISP may be monitoring certain users....)
--Tim May
Which ISP and religious group is this?
Just why do you think I was elliptical in my comments? To type three lines instead of just typing the name? Think about it. With Webcrawlers looking for names of organizations--and the Cypherpunks archives show up on such searches--and with some organizations being very quick to sue for perceived defamation.... --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
Just why do you think I was elliptical in my comments? To type three lines instead of just typing the name? Think about it.
Oh. That organization. I thought it was simply because the topic had been done to death. Speaking of topics being done to death, I'm probably going to cease my subscription to cypherpunks as soon as my subscription to the filtered list is confirmed. (Which is why I'm not following up to Vulis' messages any more... the conversation would probably stop anyway when I stopped seeing his half of the messages, and I probably wouldn't see mine on the filtered list anyway...)
With Webcrawlers looking for names of organizations--and the Cypherpunks archives show up on such searches--and with some organizations being very quick to sue for perceived defamation....
This brings up something else: the last time I tried to find the cypherpunks archives on a web search they didn't show up. The last time I accessed them was in March, and they were kind-of sick then... I guess things just got too bad for the archival scheme to handle? Phil Fraering The above is the opinion of neither my internet pgf@acadian.net service provider nor my employer. 318/261-9649
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