Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide
Trei, Peter
ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Fri Mar 4 13:09:02 PST 2005
> -----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
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