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Re: Does John Gilmore...
At 08:37 AM 11/16/96 -0800, Sandy Sandfort <[email protected]> wrote:
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>I have a suggestion for "Aga" and others who believe this sort of
>nonsense. Please do us all a favor and try to sue John. I'm sure
>that among all jack-leg and wannabe lawyers on this list that they
>can come up with a viable cause of action. And John has deep
>pockets; you could (literally) make out like bandits AND rescue
>"freedom of speech" on privately maintained mailing lists.
Such a case would obviously fail. John has the right to ban anyone he
wants from a list that he is hosting.
I do question, though, whether or not it was the best way to handle the
situation. As I have argued, the availability of end-user filtering made
banning Dimitri from the list unnecessary, IMHO. And the list owner giving
people the boot sure doesn't fit with the picture I have had of what
cypherpunks was about. YMMV.
I think that John is doing a lot of great things for crypto (his
participation in the Bernstein case, S/WAN, etc.) and I agree with at least
90% of the things I see him doing. I think he made the wrong call with
Dimitri, though.
>You
>could be heroes (or look ten times as foolish as you already do).
Actually, if John was trying to cut down on the noise by banning the Kook,
I think it's backfired. It seems like there is even more irrational
chatter now...
Rich
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Rich Burroughs
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