At 12:41 PM 9/10/96, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:

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As to what I presume is an insult to the folks on this list ("I'm personally not interested in conjuring up the latest utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati"), you know where the exit is.

Triple cheers for free speech. Calling for expulsion of those who don't share your opinion seems to me the clearest sign of will to remain an enlightened minority. Then, why do you take it as an insult?

I didn't call for your "expulsion." No one has been expelled in four years of the list's existence. However, when people complain about not being interested in the list topics, and refers to some of the main list topics as "conjuring up the latest utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati," then, yes, I would say this is insulting, or, at least, dismissive. As with a restaurant, if people complain loudly about the food, they ought to leave and not come back. This is not the restaurant expelling them, this is just them acting on their opinions. --Tim May, Member of the Minoritarian Illuminati 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."