From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 17:04:03 +0800
To: "Declan B. McCullagh" <anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks, a political "newsgroup?"
Message-ID: <199605200308.UAA03514@newmail.pacifier.com>
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At 06:09 PM 5/19/96 -0400, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
>Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 19-May-96  by anonymous-remailer@shell 
>> Cypherpunks is not a political newsgroup.
>
>Hah! Most everything that's discussed here has political overtones. I,
>for one, appreciated in the info on the Burmese businessman and
>forwarded it to fight-censorship. I'll link it in to
>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/ when I get a chance.

I happen to agree.  Information privacy, security, and freedom are 
definitely "on-topic" around here.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com