-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ANNOUNCING: THE SECOND QUASI-MONTHLY PORTLAND CYPHERPUNKS SOIREE AND KEY-SIGNING Yes, it's that time again. When: Saturday, February 26, 1996 come 4:30-5 pm to join those of us watching the new episode of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, or come 7:30-8 pm to avoid it Where: my apartment, in SE Portland e-mail me for directions This meeting is about to be announced in a bunch of local and regional newsgroups; I hope to get a crop of novices as well as the more experienced folks. A keysigning will take place, with instructions for it mailed out later in the week. I have a PC running Windows 95, and it'll be available for use in key verification and the like. If anyone has a portable computer with another OS to bring, please do. Proposed topics: 1) Alan Olsen is working on an e-mail client with PGP integration. Let's talk interface. 2) I'm working on a guide for crypto newbies. Come and tell me what works or doesn't. 3) So, just how lame is the Communications Decency Act, anyway? :-) 4) Whatever of crypto relevance is on your mind. Since there was confusion last time about expectations, let me spell out of a few things up. 1) Since some participants have expressed the desire not to be photographed, no cameras. 2) Insofar as others have other concerns, e-mail me. No guarantees on what we can do or not, but I'd like as many people as possible to be as comfortable as possible. 3) What's discussed during the soiree _will_ be fair game for comment later. Interesting insights, dramatic news, stunning rhetoric, the whole deal, may all be continued on the net later. There are, alas, some restrictions on partying tools, imposed by my chronic immune problems. If you smoke, a) please hold off if possible or b) take it outside and away from my door. (I have a nice back patio suitable for this purpose, since I never use it for anything.) I will have quite a variety of drinks on hand, but please, leave the alcohol at home. Ditto for any scents or perfumes you might usually wear. This way I get to have fun, too. :-) I really hate to add this particular paragraph (and it isn't in the version that'll get posted to newsgroups), but...one person won't be welcome. Jim Bell's conduct at the last meeting and on the list are such as to make it quite clear that I don't want him in my home. I won't send him directions. I ask that nobody else do so. If he shows, he will not be allowed in. I have no interest in hosting a get-together dominated by the perpetuation of an increasingly dull flamewar. (And if he can stop grinding the usual axes in the next two weeks, I'd be delighted to drop this.) The time and energy I, and other participants, have are too valuable to waste that way. (And if he thinks I'm being unreasonable, he is of course free to organize his own gathering.) [Note: I will not pursue this matter further on Cypherpunks. I needed to announce it; I don't need to sustain the flame fest.] Regards, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEQAwUBMSAW8X3AXR8sjiylAQHECQfRAVlw1MzEpCceLzxM3LbwuLwmSpgacLFi 8eUNFGNHis1xwpOvYpY/u/6WQXScI00oq/44euY8N6bzUxV6djbhIPR1jX+J0KrQ 2Dl8gZgaRNdo69nBabIt3gBG4OZzWiqX2g7YLOcr4I7rcNvCPn0SbaIayb5trgjh AWSVnC1g8gy17XBpAZMrLurgQQx0ul5CS0RreO6/Tpqy3P2V2ly0+k3k9p29RJly Y/Ug7KSYxirXUt07eeI8HCXzEtJ8DvN133Nwbos7WZvXitR5fzf0eXbxGSe7WXay KB0olIiWEi/r0q7xP8GdE07WcBzbXCfH5Uf6VPr9F34rig8= =p6BW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Bruce Baugh bruce@aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce