From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 94 11:15:32 PDT
To: snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
Subject: Re: Voluntary Governments?
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Bob Snyder writes:

> I think there is a balance that can be struck between code-only talk and
> politics.  The list seems to be heavily tilted towards politics, probably
> because a good portion of the subscribers may not have the math/computer
> science background to follow all the code/protocol discussion.  I know that
> I have a hard time following it some times.  But I think opening the list
> up to generic, non-cryptological debate is a bad idea.
> 

"Opening the list up"? I've been on the list since the beginning, and
anarcho-capitalist, politico-cryptologic themes have _always_ been
with us. The role and nature of government in the presence of strong
cryptography is a recurring, and important, theme.

Those who want to discuss the mathematics and engineering of
cryptology are certainly encouraged to do so, but not to stop other
threads.

--Tim May


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