Y'all: I received the following fan mail today, in regards to my announcement of the WinSock Remailer. In my announcement, I noted that I have blocked the Church of Scientology discussion groups alt.religion.scientology and alt.clearing.technology. The author shall remain anonymous:

Please make your blocking configurable in a text file that the remailer reads at startup time. Other people who install your remailer may not feel the need to surrender to the Church of Scientology's legal terrorism the way you have.

Anyone who has checked my webpage (http://www.c2.net/~winsock/) knows that the blocking lists are entirely up to the user. Let me state clearly that I'm just not interested in the Church of Scientology, its supporters or detractors. My interest is in writing remailers and seeing that the remailers are widely distributed. If I involve myself in this COS mess, then I'm distracting myself from my mission, which is writing remailers. Fighting "wars" is for the young and strong. Think of me as a weapons designer. I build the weapons, someone else fights the wars. Freedom needs weapons designers and warriors. That is my version of "Cypherpunk Patriotism". I offered my detractor a copy of the remailer so that he can run his own remailer and fight his war with COS. Let's see if he puts up or shuts up. My guess is the latter. Regards, -- Joey Grasty jgrasty@gate.net [home -- encryption, privacy, RKBA and other hopeless causes] jgrasty@pts.mot.com [work -- designing pagers] "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann PGP = A7 CC 31 E4 7E A3 36 13 93 F4 C9 06 89 51 F5 A7