-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:58:38 +0000 From: M. Drew Streib <dtype@dtype.org> To: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org>, linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] drew is so fuckin' l33t! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:02:04AM -0700, Don Marti wrote:

1. Make contact with one of the isolated tribes of GPG users who are not part of the strong set. All those people will then be connected, but far away from everyone except you, bwah ha ha.

Also, make contact with people far away from you _in_ the strong set, thus making a "bridge" between widely separated parts of set. This requires more people to "travel" over you for short paths. bwah ha ha.

2. Teach a class on GPG and get all your students to sign your key.

Vis a vis Peter Wan, #1 on the list, and a professor at GA Tech. Great spreader of the faith, this man... 4. Sell your house, clothes, and other belongings and become a prophet of cryptography. Normally, you would be faceless and noone would know who you _really_ were. But in this case, you'll have your GPG identity, which is better than any flesh-and-blood ID anyway.

Hey, wait a minute -- the ways to get more Drew juice are also the ways to expand the usefulness of the web of trust and get more people started using crypto. Way to use elitism for good.

"Drew juice". :) One of my friends is very into PS2 Gauntlet recently, and suggests I begin assigning levels. "Don Marti, you are now a level 27 keywhore." But yes, I'm doing my best to only encourage _good_ behavior from this ranking, which is why the main report is structured as it is.

(I've already written a puff piece on Drew for LJ.)

Heh, is this the wonderful email garden writeup, or am I to be expecting something different? You're quite the writer, my friend. BTW, I still have your server sitting in my bar. Maybe burnallmp3s.org becomes an Ogg Vorbis shrine. -drew -- M. Drew Streib <dtype@dtype.org> | http://dtype.org/ FSG <dtype@freestandards.org> | Linux International <dtype@li.org> freedb <dtype@freedb.org> | SourceForge <dtype@sourceforge.net>