is metzger himself the little king by divine right of the 'cryptography' mailing list?
And your ideas as to the validity and value of well curated strictly on topic lists / charters? Particularly when... unless of course already in a censored environment / network regime, say China GFW, where it's harder to internet... anyone can still more or less freely as in free speech start and run their own list anywhere, ranging from open to closed..
Anyone could tear that article apart, but you would censor it, so what's your point of even approving it here for comment?
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014824.html Krugman... not a single cryptography tech protocol thing in it... pure money politics. Mods approving such threads / posts that are said to be against rules, while censoring rebuttals thusly solicited by same approvals... lol. Apparently that was becoming hard to sustain under the sunlight.