Re: The Courtesies of Cypherpunks

["Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>]

Mike McNally says:
> We've all worried about various types of regulations on traffic which
> may be proposed or imposed as the net becomes more common.  What if
> this type of paranoia crops up more frequently?  (Indeed, it may have
> happened many times in the past; Mr. Detweiler is just very "loud"
> about it.)  Is it likely that there are a lot of people on shaky
> emotional footing who'll lose their grip when faced with the new
> sociological paradigms of electronic communities?

It will happen, but good filtering agents can stop it from becoming
annoying.

Perry