From: owner-cypherpunks@hks.net
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 11:02:17 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The thread that would not die. (Mandating signatures)
Message-ID: <199412021907.OAA16118@bb.hks.net>
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In article <9412021551.AA04657@snark.imsi.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com> wrote:
>
>John Schofield says:
>>     It is silly to talk of someone "owning" the list.  The list is a
>> community.  The only possible owners are the people in the community.  If we
>> all left, Eric would still have control over the list--but the list would be
>> worthless.
>
>It is silly to talk of someone "owning" a restaurant. The restaurant
>is a community. The only possible owners are the people in the
>community. If the patrons all left, Chef Joey would still have control
>over the restaurant -- but the restaurant would be worthless.

You continue to confuse (deliberately?) a community with the place it meets.
"List" is being used in two senses -- and you continue to interpret it only
as the instance of majordomo on toad.com.  That's a worthless interpretation
as nobody disputes that Eric controls that agent.

As far as I'm concerned, if a message has gone out to every address on
the "cypherpunks" list, I don't give a shit whether or not it went through
toad.com first: it went to cypherpunks.
- -- 
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cactus@hks.net |  Now chemical bonds alone guard our blond(e)s,
cactus@bb.com  |  And even the plumbing looks good."  - B Fuller

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