From: "DrZaphod" <ncselxsi!drzaphod@ncselxsi.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 08:11:46 PDT
To: CypherPunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: HELP! Some nut is threatening to sue!
Message-ID: <2475.drzaphod@ncselxsi>
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In Message Wed, 28 Apr 93 21:31:10 MDT,
  Stanton McCandlish <hydra.unm.edu!anton@netcomsv.netcom.com> writes:

>Due to my posts to sci.crypt and elsewhere that I was distributing PGP,
>I recieved the following

>From: jim@RSA.COM (Jim Bidzos)
>To: anton@hydra.unm.edu
>Subject: pgp
>
>I don't think you're aware of our position on pgp. Unfortunately, you
>may leave us no choice but to take legal action, which we will unless
>you cease promotion adn distribution of pgp. The next message will
>state our position.

     For a guy who claims to want to help us Cypherpunks in the way of
personal encryption, scare tactics seem a little out of place.  I'm sure
we'd all like to use legal encryption methods [maybe]... but we ARE
Cypherpunks.. giving us the responsibility to use what's best and defend our
rights for privacy.  Using a package that hasn't been updated in 5 years
[MailSafe], we have diminished to politically correct yippies.  I;m not sure
quite what to do.. but I saw Jim Bidzos on a magazine once.. and he looks
like a fed.
By playing the game we are becoming part of it.  TTFN.
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