From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 23:37:46 PST
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: "You aren't following the _rules_!"
In-Reply-To: <199411290628.WAA22841@netcom13.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199411290736.XAA17767@netcom6.netcom.com>
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Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> Eric wrote:
> >I am still considering the "sign-or-delay" proposal for the toad.com
> >server, that is, sign your articles to the list or they'll be delayed
> >and eventually rejected.
> 
> Do it. Either it will work or it will kill the list. If it works, geat. If
> it  kills the list, we would have failed in our mission anyway.
> 

Yes, do it! Do it now! Do it tonight! I spend too much time reading
this list as it is, so this new requirement will actually mean *less*
time spent in e-mail, as I'd have to leave the list. Go for it!

You see, I'm reading with elm (on-line) or Eudora (off-line). And not
always both. It depends on what I'm doing.

(Standard request: Please don't send me advice on how _you_ are happy
with Slackware Linux v.3.845 running pine 3.4 on your Pinto-um box. Or
how you run PGP on your campus machines. Etc. I'm happy that you're
happy, which ought to be enough.)

I have little means of solving the Netcom-Macintosh-elm-Eudora issues,
and I don't see others solving them especially cleanly or usably, so I
expect that the "sign your messages or else" dictum would have a
predictable result, for me.

And isn't it up to the _readers_ to decide if they don't want to read
my messages because they think I'm not being diligent enought, or
because my messages appear to be forged?

Isn't end-user choice the core of the Cypherpunk ethos?

"You can't be an anarchist....your messages aren't formatted
according to the rules."

Can we get back to reality?

--Tim May


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