From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:26:04 -0800 (PST)
To: blanc <blancw@cnw.com>
Subject: Re: Cyphernomicon by Tim May
Message-ID: <199702020326.TAA06430@toad.com>
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blanc wrote:
> From:   Toto, quoting the Cyphernomicon
> 3.5.1 Contrary to what people sometimes claim, there is no ruling
>        clique of Cypherpunks. Anybody is free to do nearly anything,
>        just not free to commit others to course of action, or claim
>        to speak for the "Cypherpunks" as a group (and this last
>        point is unenforceable except through reputation and social repercussions).

> Toto, I'm surprised at how seriously you take the underlying anarchist
> philosophy of the list; you identify so closely with it, and have responded
> to its moderation as though it really would be "the end of freedom", even
> though you seem to have appeared, or else come out of lurking, only
> recently.   Is this because you value anarchy, or free speech, or the
> existence of the Cypherpunks as a unique group of stray cats [ :>) ]?
> Side note: Since Tim isn't on the list and hasn't been for a month, I've been
> wondering if it had anything to do with the moderation experiment, although
> it is unlike him to have left without either an argument or at least some
> kind of statement about it.

Maybe Tim's Last Words got "lost", eh?  So far, several people have
stated that "it could happen".