Re: Good Bye Cypherpunks!

[Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>]

Vin McLellan wrote:
>         My understanding of Sandy's effort, for instance, was that he was to
> filter out the sludge of spam and contentless name-calling with which some
> idiots were flooding the list.  My impression was that he was passing along
> any posts with content (ideas, pro or con, on almost anything) but filtering
> out the empty obscene name-calling and slurs (many of which seemed anon or
> forged, with varied and misleading titles, to duck my kill-file filters.)

Tim May writes that the disruptors "won".  I say they didn't "win"
anything.  Truth is, the old, feeble, senile, stupid, and generally
ignorant Gilmore/Sandfort team just gave up, because they're too
much in bed with the establishment now to rock any more boats.