From: Bryce <bryce@digicash.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:57:49 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "cypherpunks is dead..."
Message-ID: <199702201657.IAA16261@toad.com>
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 A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym 
 "Tim May <tcmay@got.net>" typed:
>
> (Getting PGP integrated into mailers
> is stil bogged down, for reasons I have to believe have to do with
> pressures from somewhere, else why would e-mail packages not make PGP
> support painless?)


Because PGP's user interface is yucky and its programmer
interface is even worse.


Amazing how people don't realize how much certain important 
things depend on such a (deceptively) simple concept as having
a nice user interface and a nice programmer interface.  In 
contradiction of certain cypherpunk urban legends, I suspect
that such pedestrian details are far, far more important to 
the course of history than the clumsy and feckless 
machinations of government agencies.


But for the good news, see the quote from Jim Bidzos in my
".plan".


Regards,

Zooko, Journeyman Interface Designer

NOT speaking for any organizations or persons whose names 
might appear in the headers of this message, or who might 
occasionally toss me some spare change in return for my 
brilliant software design work.

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