From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:59:18 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypher-PUNKS...
In-Reply-To: <009AC690.10DDC280.3@SPRUCE.HSU.EDU>
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At 11:54 PM -0500 12/5/96, jc105558@spruce.hsu.edu wrote:
>I am writing this post to inform subcsribers of this list of the problems I
>have seen in this service.  The number one problem being off subject
>discussion
>I understand that the name of this is cypherpunks, but why not put a little
>more cypher and a lot less punk.  I can understand how it can all get started
>One person posts some intelligent information.  Then another replys
>dissagreeing
>with the original sender.  Then the sender takes it personally, and feels
>a need
>to flame the other.  There is nothing wrong with flaming a bit, but for the
>name-sake of this mailer, please post more realevent (or at least interesting)
>information.  Logos take a chill pill.  You aren't a policeman.   Tim May, do
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>you have anything on subject to discuss?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I've initiated more threads on crypto-related and politico-crypto topics
than nearly anyone else. If you haven't seen them, you've been on the list
too short a time to be making such pronouncements as you've just made.

--Tim May

>p.s. Logos, Tim May nothing personal, I hope.

And don't take it personally that "jc105558@spruce.hsu.edu" is now in my
kill file.


Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside"
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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