Nice editorial on the back page of the June Dr. Dobb's: "Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, Dorothy" I won't quote the whole thing, but the first paragraph reads: "The debate on digital-telephony legislation in the March 1993 issue of *Communications of the ACM* was a fraud and a dissappointment." It's by Michael Swaine. More serious than "Swaine's Flames" sometimes are. Cypherpunks reminds me of the very first issues of "Dr. Dobb's Journal of TINY BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia: Running Light without Overbyte." Those days, when it seemed we all had a chance to steer the future, were over fast. -fnerd