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Re: McVeigh
Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> writes:
> > >There is absolutely nothing that the anti-government ranters contribute
> > >to the pro-cryptography movement...
> >
> > Nothing except motivation. Anti-government ranters founded this list,
> > invented remailers, and did a lot of other good work.
>
> [first remailer ...]
>
> I'll accept that the ranting faction do some good work but I've
> not seen anything usefull out of either Bell or Vulis unless that
> is you are an FBI agent looking to get a promotion from Freeh.
Dimitri rights code sometimes. He wrote a cancel-bot. Very
constructive piece of work in an indirect way. See: having nice
freely available cancel-bots enables technically clueless, would
be-censors to censor more. They censor more, and cause a nuisance for
themselves sending out tons of cancel messages. This incentivizes
more and more people to ignore cancels (the trend in news
administration these days I understand is to ignore cancels entirely),
which means that you can't have your USENET posts censored nearly as
easily.
Adam
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