Re: Swan song...

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

>  dthorn@gte.net wrote to All:
>  d> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>  >> Well, folks, after four or five years here, I'm finally leaving.
>  d> I haven't been on the list more than 6-8 weeks...
> You might be expected to defer to those of us who have been here for
> years and have seen the list go terribly downhill.
>  d>  ...but in that time, it's
>  d>  been more interesting than I would have guessed for a non-technical
>  d>  forum, which isn't necessarily good...
> It's especially not "nesessarily good" when the list was _supposed_ to
> be a technical forum concerning cryptography and privacy technology,
> along with the few posts concerning pending legislation and the social
> effects of such tech.
> Now, the average day's traffic is about two-thirds pure noise.  What on
> earth is interesting about _that_?

     With the execption of those twits flaming Mr. May, there is noise,
and there is NOISE. The noise here is more valuable, insightful, and thoughtful
than the signal most places.

     I joined this list primarily to lurk, as I had been told that it was 
primarily techincal in nature, and I don't have much to add at that level. I
was pleasantly suprised to learn that the content was much more than just 
technical. There are many of us who _can't_ code, but "we" can think about 
the protocalls at a different level, and we MUST understand the implications
of the technology that "we" are assisting to deploy. "We" must understand what 
"we" are unleashing, to do less is irresponcible. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com