From: merriman@metronet.com (David K. Merriman)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 13:19:44 PDT
To: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Subject: Re: Mailing list for cryptography
Message-ID: <199409132017.AA02968@metronet.com>
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>"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>:
>> I'm thinking (again) about setting up a specialized mailing list for
>> discussing cryptography...
>
>While I agree with Perry's implication that the CP list does tend to go off
>track rather often, it _was_ set up specifically to bring together the
>social and technical aspects of cryptography, and does generate useful 
>discussion on occasion ;-]
>
>If you want to discuss only cryptography, there's always sci.crypt...
>

Snicker, snicker.  What planet are *you* living on? :-)
The only reason it's sci._crypt_ is because that's what 90% of the
flame-fests get started on.  I'd guesstimate that only 1 posting in 100 is
actually about crypto, or some directly crypto-related matter.  The rest of
it is S*****light vs. The World name-calling and character assassinations.

Dave Merriman
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