At 4:29 PM -0800 3/1/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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>At 11:43 AM -0800 on 3/1/00, Tim May wrote:
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>> I thought you (R.A. Hettinga) agreed not to forward my articles to your
>> stable of lists?
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>Actually, I may be wrong, but I'm not sure I agreed to that at all. What
>I *did* agree to do, something I'm sure you remember, now, Tim, was not
>to forward stuff from *other* lists -- particularly articles published
>elsewhere mostly unrelated to cryptography -- to the cypherpunks list
>anymore. Something which I haven't really done much of since, and,
Perhaps you are right. I am asking you, then, to not do it. Not because I
"own" my words here, but because readers on other lists lack context. (Few
of our articles are self-contained articles in the way magazine articles
are meant to be.)
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>I do agree that, in the act of filtering stuff from one place to another
>on the net, things are lost in the compression, as it were. However, I
>expect, upon reflection, that you yourself would acknowlege that "you own
>your own words" is a fairly difficult doctrine to assert, especially on
>cypherpunks, and especially in a world of multiple filtered variants of
>same, not to mention the various archives, including, most particularly,
>those at places like deja.com.
I did not claim this. Read more carefully.
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>Who suspects that Tim might have nothing better to do with his time, and
>is just trolling for a fight, to bring something this trivial up again
>for a rehash. Something, I, for one, am not going to give much notice to,
>however unfortunate that may turn out, either for my own reputation, or
>his. Life is too short for this kind of thing anymore, I think. At least
>it is for me, anyway...
No, I am not itching for a fight.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
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