At 08:54 PM 3/28/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:

Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a node.

True so far Well, al-qaeda.net is a DNS record, and the list includes social issues related to crypto-related tech, but lets start off by giving you the point.

The subscribers to this list may or may not sympathize with the activites of the "Real" "al-qaeda".

Sorry, but the prefix "Real" is the intellectual property of an IRA (tm) spinoff in this context. Our lawyers will be contacting you. The name al-qaeda is, I suspect, more or less

tongue-in-cheek,

of the gripes that real organization has with the US government, and

Really? and at the least (or perhaps the most) a head-nod at some those

that continue to support it's activites abroad.

Getting pretty heavy there Tyler Ever consider that it might be a *reminder* that if isn't good enough for Osama, its not good enough for you? However, there does not

appear to be any regular posters to this list that are involved with al-qaeda the "terror" network. (Actually, if there are, it would be interesting to hear from them via the remailers.)

Everyone, search your wallet for official Al Q membership cards. (I suppose female members may have trouble telling if its themselves under the scarves on the ID.. except for the Florida branch of Al Q)

Cypherpunks is an extremely diverse group of indivduals,

and wanna-be individuals

that do not appear to agree on a great many number of things.

Really? What binds us together (if

anything) is the interest in cryptographic techniques that would appear to offer the capability of secure communications, with "communications" meaning any kind of transaction that can be transmitted by data over electronic or optoelectronic networks.

*Way* too specific dude. Also interested in opsec generally. (All your crypto is belong to us if I can get to your machine..) Communications can be smoke signals. (Would that be optical comms?) Or the positions of cards in a deck. Or the positions of hands in a shipment of watches. Another thing that seems to bind us (and again

"bind" is probably a poor choice of words) is an extreme tolerance to opinions very different from that of any one subscriber.

What the fuck are you ingesting tonight? "extreme tolerance to opinions"?? Its only because it would be self-parodying that accusations of nazihood don't fly. Even with Tim gone, praise be unto him. On the other hand, in our better moods we try to educate each other.

Therefore please get a fuckin' clue. If you want to discuss the role of

"Radical" Islam in contemporary world politics, I'm sure there are those that would be interested in doing so.

Not here.

Otherwise, please fuck off.

If you've been getting this kind of cameldung *personally*, this is yet another reward of using a 1-way pseudonym. ---- There is no god and Murphy is his prophet.