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Wow.
Well, in the week or two since resubscribing to Cypherpunks, I've seen a
trickle of postings about cryptography, security, and privacy, and a flood
of insults, harangues, fighting words, and so on. Some of this reads more
like a script from a Jerry Falwell TV spot than anything I recognize as
"Cypherpunk" traffic.
I don't care who's offended whom. I'm not interested in participating in a
forum where the supposed topic is submerged underneath a lot of adolescent
alpha primate chest-beating.
I'm off to look for a mailing list where people are ACTUALLY DISCUSSING
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND IMPLEMENTING CRYPTOSYSTEMS. This list may still be
called "cypherpunks", but it doesn't have much cypherpunk left in it, as
far as I can tell.
Disgusted,
Amanda Walker
Senior Software Engineer
InterCon Systems Corporation