From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:25:37 -0800 (PST)
To: Bill Campbell <wcampbel@peganet.com>
Subject: Re: Dr. Vulis' social engineering "experiment"
Message-ID: <199701221225.EAA23457@toad.com>
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Bill Campbell wrote:
> Sean Roach <roach_s@alph.swosu.edu> wrote:
> > At 02:22 AM 1/21/97 -0800, Toto wrote:
> > >Bill Campbell wrote:

> > I believe he is referring to silencing the list, not Vulis.  As long as the
> > members of this list are argueing over semantics, the government has one
> > less challenger in the fight over our rights.
> > Remember, one of the oldest tactics of war is to turn the enemy against itself.

> I fear that many have now left the list, since it now seems to resemble,
> in many ways, a list consisting of high school age "wannabes" who think
> it's really cool to attack people just because they can. The downward
> spiral into inconsequential meaningless postings began with posts
> containing the word "fart".  So cool, dudes.

The list only suffers when you guys stop posting crypto/political
info.  For example, if tomorrow there are 100 new posts, and 10 of
them are crypto/political relevant, and 10 more are like this one
(I'm ignoring the other 80 for this example), then the list is only
10% relevant.  Take away these 10, and it's 11.1%, but 10 less posts
to read.  Turn these 10 into something relevant, and voila(!), the
list is now 20% relevant.

You see, it's up to you, Bill.