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From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Nov 9 09:15:40 1993 Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks@toad.com> Received: from relay2.UU.NET by mail.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id JAA12727; Tue, 9 Nov 1993 09:15:36 -0800 Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04858; Tue, 9 Nov 93 12:13:54 -0500 Received: by toad.com id AA17446; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:39 PST Received: by toad.com id AA17443; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:11 PST Received: from lehman.com ([192.147.66.1]) by toad.com id AA17438; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:06 PST "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com> said: Since Mr. Merritt has insisted, I will take a foray into this issue. I would suggest, however, that this is not the forum for this discussion.

Ok...I'll desist after a brief comment: I actually don't disagree with any of the major points you make when you put it that way -- although some of the other things I call minor points you might call major points :-) I think I do have some quibbles which would probably turn *into* serious disagreement, but even I would say that raising those things would take us far afield, so I'll leave it at that. P.S. This is ad hominem...tsk, tsk:

Mr. Merritt, this discussion is much like that of a Catholic peasant in 1500 trying to understand an atheist, with me in the role of the atheist. Doug