One of the biggest offendors in getting into long flamewars has always been Sandfort himself. Why am I not surprised that most of his recent posts have had nothing to do with crypto but a lot to do with his own flames about others? And at such length, oh vey! He said: "First, I did not use it as a legal term of art, so a legal dictionary is not appropriate. Second, I see no sustantive difference between "forejudgment" and my shorthand version (pre-judge). Third, I wrote "literal." Examine the etimology of the word for it's literal meaning. It's pretty obvious AND specific [ME.; OFr, /prejudice/ (Fr. /prejudice/); L praejudicium/, from /prae/, before, and /judicium/, a judgment, from /judex/, /judicgis/, a judge.] In other words, to pre-judge. Get it?" Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda yadda yo momma wears army boots yadda yadda blah blah This longwinded flame is from a longwinded windbag. He proposes to screen the posts of others for "suitability" but flames others ("dont be such an ass" in another of this afternoon's posts from him) and resorts to long and boring dissections like this one. "I have no intention nor duty to satisfy everyone. That is not possible. I will use a "reasonable person" test. (I am, by the way, using this in the legal term of art sense.)" Who will moderate this "windbag"? He thinks the list is his. It may run on Gilmour's machine, but the "Cypherpunks" are not owned by Gilmour and Sandfort. "P.S. I talked to Gilmore about the holdup in getting started. He has been too busy to get the tech side going, but when he does, (a) everyone will be notifed as to the start date, and the test will still run for an entire month. Until then, it is (sadly) business as usual." Why was this new dictatoriul policy (especially making the moderated list the default, instead of offering the moderated list as a new option) announced to begin on January 11th, then? Gilmour is probly having second thoughts (a good thing) and is just dragging his feet. Disgusted.