From: Wesley Felter <wesf@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:13:14 +0800
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Layoffs at PGP
Message-ID: <199705020303.XAA10083@relay1.smtp.psi.net>
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On 5/1/97 6:41 PM, Martin Janzen said:

>Well, PGP spokesman Mike Nelson wins the award for the Freudian slip of
>the day:
>
>    "Internet Fast-Forward is not as closely related to the tools we
>    develop for individuals for privacy," he said. And the fact that
>    Fast-Forward filters ads which are an "inimical part of some of the
>                                           ^^^^^^^^
>    emerging Web commerce models ... we don't want to hinder this
>    development."

Unless you take it to mean that banner ads are important for "emerging 
Web commerce models" which is what PGP doesn't want to hinder the 
development of, in which case I'd say that IFF is inimical indeed. Both 
ways, they lose.

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