Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide

[Trei, Peter]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at minder.net
> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at minder.net]On Behalf Of Anonymous
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:01 PM
> To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: Re: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide
> 
> 
> R.A. Hettinga spoke thusly...
> > 
> <http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/printjj20050304.shtml>
> > 
> > Townhall.com
> > 
> > An inglorious suicide
> > Jeff Jacoby (back to web version) | Send
> > 
> > March 4, 2005
> > 
> > Hunter Thompson's suicide was an act of selfishness and 
> cruelty. But more
> > depraved by far has been the celebration of that suicide by 
> those who
> > supposedly loved or admired him.
> 
> What does this have to do with cypherpunks?  This is not your personal
> blog.  Most of the list traffic is forwarded or cross-posted news
> articles, but how is HST's suicide remotely on-topic?
> 


I absolutely agree. The value of Hettinga's posts to Cypherpunks and 
the Cryptography list has absolutely gone down the tubes, to the point
where I have had to write special filter rules to isolate his posts
from the actual content.

The dozen or so full-length article on HST have simply no relevance
to either list.

If he had any respect for others at all, he'd give the URL and
a couple lines of summary. Or even better is your suggestion that
he use his own blog, or set up his own mailing list instead of
spamming the lists with off-topic crap.

His behaviour has sunk his reputation well into the 
Choate/Matt Taylor range.

Peter Trei