Re: Demonizing Denning

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

I agree with Tim and Phil very strongly. Ad hominem attacks are never
justified. I find there is very little point in wasting time on them.

Perry

Timothy C. May says:
> Phil Karn wrote:
> 
> > Dorothy Denning may be a naive pawn of the government. She may
> > hold beliefs that appall the rest of us. She may have lost
> > whatever credibility she had in the crypto community by her
> > position. But I still prefer to attack that position and the
> > (il)logic behind it rather than to resort to attacking the person
> > expressing it.

> I agree with Phil. I don't have much respect for Dorothy Denning's
> views, feeling she has sold out to the Beltway mentality, but I can't
> see the point of demonizing her, any more than I can see the point of
> demonizing Jim Bidzos or Mitch Kapor, or lionizing Phil Zimmermann.