From: bureau42 Anonymous Remailer <nobody@bureau42.ml.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 05:45:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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> Something that I have found irritating about the posts by
> non-persistent identities is that it isn't possible to support a
> meaningful discussion as previous statements can always be repudiated,
> or maybe even weren't made by the particular poster.  I compared this
> to sound bites.

And Tim do I know how you hate sound bites. Look at
it this way: no identity is persistent, signed or not.
All just varying degrees.

Maybe all we *ever* had was sound bites, but the
closer proximities and smaller networks of the past
made them seem more dynamic than they really were.