From: jktaber@netcom.com (John K. Taber)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 11:35:51 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: 6/6 New Yorker anti-crypto propaganda
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> From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Mon Jun  6 03:51:24 1994
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 01:10:22 -0500
> From: Anthony Garcia <agarcia@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
> Message-Id: <199406060610.AA10841@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Cc: agarcia@sugar.NeoSoft.COM
> In-Reply-To: "Bradley W. Dolan"'s message of 05 Jun 94 21:00:47 EDT <940606010046_71431.2564_FHA46-1@CompuServe.COM>
> Subject: Re: 6/6 New Yorker anti-crypto propaganda
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> 
> New Yorker writer says:
>    [Many clueless things, including:]
>    The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority
>    of the government, but to all authority, because it permits
>    people to organize, think, and influence one another without
>    any institutional supervision whatsoever. 
> 
> Oh, Dear.  We Certainly Can't Let That Happen.
> 
> Sigh.  This gentleman obviously needs to be regrooved.  Does anyone
> have his net address?
> 
> -Anthony Garcia
> agarcia@sugar.neosoft.com
> "Wacos In Cyberspace:  Hear, hear!"
> 

Well, as I read that sentence in isolation, it is true, and a Good Thing.
I will be concerned if the author is urging "institutional" supervision.
Guess I gotta go read the New Yorker now.  Sheesh, you guys, you get me
to read the Atlantic Monthly, now the New Yorker.  I hope they have 
gotten away from their dilatory style, and that the cartoons are still
good, if I gotta waste my money this way.