cats

[Morlock Elloi]

Well, cats *do* have a quite strict hierarchy which is far from ad-hoc
establishment of the pecking order. So the analogy dosn't hold with cat
behavioral experts.

However, if cats could perform anonymized hissing, biting and scratching, then
I'm sure that cypherpunk maillist would be a good analogy for cat behavior.



> Second, if you examine the context of the original post, the statement
> was a metaphor about leaderless ("anarchic") assemblies such
> as this list.  In particular, the Feds (dogs) haven't historically
> understood that this list is the equivalent of a grad lounge or spontaneous
> beach party:
> there are multiple conversations, no one is moderating or otherwise
> choreographing
> squat.  When cats encounter each other by chance, they may assert
> dominance,
> (linguistic pissing contests are not unheard of here :-)
> but their lives are not structured around following, or smelling the
> higher-up's ass.




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