From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:52:08 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks maiing list
In-Reply-To: <199701262312.PAA26813@toad.com>
Message-ID: <c0761D83w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org> writes:

> Regardless of which side you take on this matter, remember that the issue
> was forced by the actions of an extremely small segment of the list
> "population."

The list "population" (readers) is a couple of thousand people, almost
all of whom are lurkers. All posters are an extremely small segment of
the readership. It's true on most Internet forums.

> The decision of that small segment to excercise its rights "in extreme"
> passed the tolerance thresholds of increasing numbers of list members,
> and the end result was a "restriction" adopted/elected/forced-on (colour
> it however you chose) on the entire "population."
>
> "Rights" are derived from social responsibility; its either that, or the
> "law of the jungle."

V.I.Lenin said: "liberty is a recognized necessity".
(I'll let Igor correct my translation is it's wrong.)

---

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps