On 13 Sep 97 at 20:53, iang@systemics.com wrote:

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Any comments about why we should *not* put most emphasis on the financial aspect of crypto?

You answered it yourself. There are more palefaces than bright-eyed injuns.

Sun Tsu (from memory): select the battleground where you are strongest and the enemy is weakest.

A battle on the field of taxation is a wipeout. At least, on the field of privacy, 4th amendment and so forth provides a few weapons for the Freedom Fighters.

Sorry to say, but I don't completely get you idiosyncratic language. My perception of it is that when you explain thoses things to productive individuals, i.e. individuals that get a lot of their money confiscated, most of them get quite interested while if you talk about the capability of talking dirty to your lover without your mother in law being able to know, they yawn faster than you can say "bit". Thus, IMO, brigning the discussion on the ground of taxation would be an attention getter. At least concerning the "guerilla" spreading of crypto, as Tim mentionned. Ciao jfa -- Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C