From: i.am.not.a.number@best.com
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 11:44:50 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Wow.
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970119115857.006aeea4@best.com>
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i have no doubt that a certain amount of the noise on this list is
the work of agents provocateurs ... and we should just live with
it because its entire intent is a certain kind of denial-of-service
attack.

just ket used to taking extra time and using the delete function a lot.
there's still a lot on the list you don't get elsewhere.

ah..... if i only had my natural lang. agent running!

At 12:58 AM 1/19/97 -0500, Amanda Walker wrote:
>Well, in the week or two since resubscribing to Cypherpunks, I've seen a
>trickle of postings about cryptography, security, and privacy, and a flood
>of insults, harangues, fighting words, and so on.  Some of this reads more
>like a script from a Jerry Falwell TV spot than anything I recognize as
>"Cypherpunk" traffic.
>
>I don't care who's offended whom.  I'm not interested in participating in a
>forum where the supposed topic is submerged underneath a lot of adolescent
>alpha primate chest-beating.
>
>I'm off to look for a mailing list where people are ACTUALLY DISCUSSING
>CRYPTOGRAPHY AND IMPLEMENTING CRYPTOSYSTEMS.  This list may still be
>called "cypherpunks", but it doesn't have much cypherpunk left in it, as
>far as I can tell.
>
>Disgusted,
>
>Amanda Walker
>Senior Software Engineer
>InterCon Systems Corporation
>
>