Declan McCullagh writes:

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:33:58PM -0700, Tim May wrote:

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Every time I consent to an interview, I regret it. The most recent time was earlier this year for a French journalist doing a piece on Freenet,

Come, now. There are different grades of journalist: Some are reasonably clueful and write frequently about these topics, and others are dilettantes told by their editors to "find something new about P2P to write about."

If Tim is talking about A. Picard (sp?) from Trasfert, Paris his writngs are quite clueful and he has actually been thinking about Cryptoarnachy. Perhaps the french interview style is different then the US one. drt