At 4:04 PM 7/22/96, Alan Horowitz wrote:

My own decision to not interlocute with Sternlight is premised as follows: His viewpoint is invariant and, by now, efficiently disseminated. Briefly, he is a Statist and he never heard of any degree of Statism that offends his sensibilities. I understand he's old enough to have been around when Stalin was still running things in the USSR. David probably was finding good things to say about Old Joe. And more importantly, about J Edgar Hoover.

Actually, David came out _against_ both Digital Telephony and mandatory key escrow, as I recall. For me, his process of conversion took entirely too long, as most of saw in the ostensibly voluntary Clipper program the seeds of a mandatory regimen. But he _did_ come out against these programs. I think this refutes the point that he's never heard of any degree of Statism that offends his sensibilities.

I pay by the minute for my internet access; many others do as well. If I decide to ignore Sternlight, it is a business decision, not a moral one.

Understandable. I find that _writing_ an article, even a short one like this, takes about as much time as adding 10 people to my filter file or hitting the "delete" key 50 times, so filtering out stuff I don't want to read has never been an issue. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."