>From: Jim Choate

   >Reply-To: cypherpunks@ssz.com

   >To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com

   >Subject: Re: The Culture of Secrecy, Disinformation, and ,
   Propaganda...

   >Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:27:22 -0500 (CDT)

   >

   >

   >

   >On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:

   >

   > > I don't know if Jim meant to send that reply about Usenet;

   > > the sentence was chopped off in the middle, just after the

   > > glaring incorrectness :-)

   >

   > > Jim Choate replied to Ray Dillinger:

   > >

   > > > > Usenet is an example of a system which is fully distributed.

   > > > Actually this has the same limitations as the 'Napster' model,

   > > > it requires a centralized

   >

   >Ah, not sure why that did that...

   >

   >But, more to the point - you shouldn't try to read minds and draw

   >conclusions from sentence fragments. You are not a good mind reader.

   >

   >.... a centralized group of servers to distributed not only content
   but

   >the indexes. The only real distinction between the two is where the

   >content resides, not a significant distiction since the system still
   has

   >centralized servers.

   >

   >But more importantly the original claim which you just jumped right
   over

   >about the intellectual property being somehow different between USENET
   and

   >Napster and that if Napster fell down it would take significantly
   longer

   >to recover than USENET is simply bogus.

   >

   >More 'let's give Jim shit because he keeps poking holes in our
   favorite

   >thoeries' than 'stick to the topic at hand'.

   >

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