Politics on the List?
Graham Toal
gtoal at an-teallach.com
Fri Nov 12 04:59:33 PST 1993
In article <199311120422.UAA28483 at mail.netcom.com> tcmay at netcom.com writes:
> Of course, I notice that very few of us are writing any code these
> days. Some of the remailer wizards are still revising their code, and
> a few C-punks are trying to implement DC-Nets in code. But the vast
> majority of the 500+ folks on this List are either not writing crypto
> code, or are keeping silent about it.
Just FYI, I'm working on integrating pgp to the mailer
that comes with 386bsd. I hacked it first a long time
ago, and never gave it out because it had a lot of loose
ends - now I'm tidying them up so that I can give it out
and people won't have to be careful what they type to avoid
some of the misfeatures...
> The intent of the "Cypherpunks write code" line, if I can venture a
> motivation (it was of course Eric's line), is that we are more
> interested in seeing the Brave New Crypto World happen than in just
> jawboning about export laws, the Zimmmermann case, and whether
> libertarians are right and socialists are wrong.
The intent of 'Cypherpunks write code' is that Perry can dump on
people talking about anything other than code ;-) (When we *do* talk
about practical stuff he tells us its impractical or been done
before or pointless, or that we should stop *talk*ing about it
and go away and do it...) I'm surprised we bother running a list
at all actually. We should all be locked away in our garrets
hacking I guess.
(What I'm really saying is that this list clearly serves a purpose,
and it is evolving into its own character, whatever that may be, despite
the efforts of the early founder members to keep it on some tightly
defined track that they once conceived it as. I don't see this
evolution as being a problem, and I'm slightly (though not to
Detweilerian proportions) annoyed whenever people like Tim or Perry
pull rank and try to limit the topics of discussion, when on closer
inspection they're just as bad as the rest of us at drifting 'off topic'.)
G
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