From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:04:21 +0800
To: Kent Crispin <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: May's Banal Rant
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At 4:28 PM -0700 6/3/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 02, 1997 at 01:21:54PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
>[...]
>> Suffice it to say for now that many people have been on the list, and then
>> dropped off. For lots of reasons. And their reasons are not something I
>> feel I need to worry about. They'll do what they want to do. Some graduated
>> from school, some got crypto jobs, some decided they'd had enough, some
>> agreed with the basic views but were ready to move on, some despised our
>> basic outlook, some were told by their employers their subversive
>> activities were a career impediment, some disliked the yahoos and lunatics,
>> some wanted censorship and left when they didn't get it, some never
>> bothered to resubscribe after being dropped for one reason or another, and
>> so on.
>
>Some grew up.  Some, like Peter Pan, want to remain children forever.
>

At least we can expect to see Kent Crispin soon leaving the list.

Historically speaking, when writers stoop to one line insultings of the
list they leave soon thereafter.

(Vulis excepted, of course.)

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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