At 11:00 AM -0700 8/24/00, Anonymous wrote:
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>Tim, what did you do lately ? I've been following this list
>for several years now, and apart from "needs killing" kind
>of rant I've never seen anything else from you.
And what I've seen from "Anonymous," at least your probable instance
of it, is this kind of "hide behind anonymity" attack. Your inclusion
of sexual innuendo means you are _probably_ either ML or GJ.
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>Got laid recently ?
>
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>To the interested parties, what should go to the giveaway CD ?
>
See what people were proposing in 1993-4 for the "giveaway CD-ROM."
Just do it. It's been talked about, and some CD-ROMs were even
pressed, back in the days when it cost a lot more. These days, 5th
graders can burn CD-ROMs for well under a buck apiece.
So, put your money where your mouth is. Collect a bunch of stuff that
is readily available from the Net (which ought to be a clue as to why
this is a pointless exercise), put it on a Windows CD-ROM, start
handing out these coasters in front of an As game, or at a Further
Festival concert. A hundred bucks for more than a hundred CD-ROMs.
(Then watch them sail across the parking lot as frisbees.)
Fact is, anyone with any awareness of issues knows how to get the
actual software. Is the software ideally set up for novices? Some is,
some isn't. Mixmaster requires a local client. Of course, this is now
a different kettle of fish: this is back to the standard issue of
"why aren't tools easier to use?" And "why don't we have usable
digital cash?"
Making the coasters and handing them out to the sheeple is the trivial part.
But, hey, knock yourself out.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
