Overestimating your importance (Was: Re: CDR: Re: Underestimating long-term consequences of cryptoanarchy)

[Tyler Durden]

"I haven't added you next
to Choate and profv yet, as you sometimes have a point, but keep working
it, and the cost of your postings will outweigh the utility of reading
them. Will you then rant about Jamie's killfile?"

Well I had two reasons for saying this. First of all, May suggested I stop 
posting due to the fact that I had "nothing to say". Well, even if that's 
true, he seems to be exposed to only pieces of my posts that get quoted by 
others, and in this particular case out of context. So if he's going to 
suggest I have nothing to say while I am supposedly in his kill file, then 
it's fair game for me to point out that from his vantage point he can only 
be full of crap.

The next point has to do with him (again) telling me not to post. And from 
what I can tell, most of the people who've been around for a while and are 
regular posters have been 'plonked' by the King of the Anarchists, Mr May. 
That leaves only newer people who either don't have an opinion on anything, 
or who don't post, or who don't disagree with him. (OK, maybe there are 
exceptions...) So again I get the distinct impression that Mr May is 
verbally trying to suppress minds that have any opinion that he didn't 
already give them. And that's OK, as long as he doesn't try it on me.

-TD




>From: Jamie Lawrence <jal at jal.org>
>To: cypherpunks at minder.net
>Subject: Overestimating your importance (Was: Re: CDR: Re:  Underestimating 
>long-term consequences of cryptoanarchy)
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 13:12:49 -0500
>
>On Wed, 07 May 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
>
> > PS: How long, on average, after someone signs onto the list does it take
> > for you to 'plonk' them? I guess this means you need a constant supply 
>of
> > "fresh meat" in order for you to find out what's being discussed!
>
>
>OK, you're being a crank now.
>
>I've been on the list from one address or another since 1993, have had
>some fights with Tim, and (so far as I know) never been killfiled by
>him.
>
>I usually only post when I have something to say, which may have
>something to do with that.
>
>And if I were included, who cares? why are cranks so interested in the
>contents of Tim's killfile? I suppose I don't understand the desire to
>dance at the edge of a given poster's range of annoyance.
>
>I can't speak for Tim, but ranting about list politics is something that
>gets you into *my* procmailrc rather quickly. I haven't added you next
>to Choate and profv yet, as you sometimes have a point, but keep working
>it, and the cost of your postings will outweigh the utility of reading
>them. Will you then rant about Jamie's killfile?
>
>-j
>
>
>--
>Jamie Lawrence                                        jal at jal.org
>Computer Science is Applied Philosophy.

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