I have been informed that Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> wrote:

[...] Tim's off-topic spews have driven Eric Hughes, John Gilmore, Rich Salz, and many other former valuable contributors off the mailing list [...]

As for me, I stopped having time to read cypherpunks a year and a half ago. Tim had nothing to do with it. The cypherpunks list has changed and I have changed; so be it. Eric