From: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:10:49 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Is the public involved in the crypto policy debate?
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On Apr 26, 1996 02:05:40, 'tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)' wrote: 
 
> 
>(If we were leftist theoreticians, we could debate for years or even 
>decades whether our movement is truly a mass movement, or just a vanguard 
>movement, etc.) 
> 
>--Tim May 
> 
 
I do not mind being trolled from time to time. 
 
Based on my anthropological, political, and journalistic researches, I look
at cypherpunks as a heterogeneous, not homogenous, movement. By this, I
mean that it can be examined in a variety of ways based on significantly
different points. 
 
1) Development (more accurately spread) of public key crypto: definitely
vanguard. 
 
2) Development and spread of anon remailers: definitely vanguard. 
 
3) Opposition to CDA, etc.: Part of a smallish mass movement. Participation
in the movement definitely limited to a small number of issues involved.
E.G. good contributions to publicity; no contribution to issues of mass
sexual hysteria around "kiddie porn," etc. 
 
4) Other issues, like future role of e-cash, etc. Not vanguard, not mass
movement, a "bunch of loons." 
 
--tallpaul