Because Matt Taylor won't keep a single email address, and thus making filtering him impractical, and because the cypherpunks list does not seem to encourage limits on communication I suggest returning every single message to him, whether manually, or via a procmail recipe.
He stores information on cypherpunks archives, let us store a few large binaries in his inbox. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, matt taylor wrote: > from:http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ > <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/";>The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe > - ------ > VP Gore Strong-Arms Crypto Company, then Demands Donation > > > Between 1995 and 1996 Al Gore called 44 people from the White house to > solicit money for his re-election. Those calls netted the DNC over $2 > million dollars. The Vice President placed these calls from the White > House on his DNC credit card. One person Mr. Gore called was Sandford > Robertson, part owner of the San Francisco investment banking firm > Robertson, Stephens and Co. The Vice President's call obtained $142,000 > from "Sandy" Robertson for the DNC. Yet, Sandy was already well known in > the DNC camp. Between 1993 and 1997, Sandy Robertson or his wife donated > over $700,000 to various campaigns, including $100,000 for Clinton's > 1993 inauguration. > > Robertson, Stephens and Co. are also major financial backers of Security > Dynamics, the present owners of RSA Inc. It was Robertson, Stephens and > Co. that filed the agreement documents with the SEC (Security and > Exchange Commission) for the merger of RSA and Security Dynamics in > April of 1996. Of course, Robertson, Stephens and Co. were well paid to > sponsor the RSA/SDI merger deal. Robertson and Stephens not only wrote > the merger agreement between RSA and SDI they also underwrote the first > two public offerings of SDI stock. > > "Robertson, Stephens & Company has provided certain investment banking > services to Security Dynamics from time to time, including acting as an > underwriter for each of the two public offerings of shares of the common > stock of Security Dynamics. In addition, Robertson, Stephens & Company > maintains a market in shares of the common stock of Security Dynamics. > Furthermore, Robertson, Stephens & Company has acted as financial > advisor to Security Dynamics in connection with the Merger for which a > portion of our fees is due and payable upon delivery of this opinion and > the remaining portion of our fees is due and payable contingent upon the > closing of the Merger." > > SEC Merger Document April, 1996 ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC Edwin > David Hertz > > > Jim Bidzos, RSA chairman, stated that Al Gore personally lobbied him to > sell the RSA crypto patents to the US Government. It is reported that Al > failed and Bidzos walked out. Al Gore has never denied nor confirmed Mr. > Bidzos's remarks about his effort on behalf of the US government. Yet, > Jim Bidzos also took a trip to Beijing in late 1995. The result of that > trip was second trip to Beijing in February of 1996 and a deal with the > Academy of Science to sell encryption technology directly to the PRC > government. The Clinton administration, quick to prosecute anyone who > sold encryption outside the US, did nothing to stop the RSA deal with > China. > Al Gore tried to buy the rights to encryption technology from RSA for > the US government. That was an official act performed by the Vice > President. Al Gore has also played a major role in the Clinton > Administration's Crypto policy. He was fully briefed early on about > Clipper and later would lobby hard to push the draconian controls sought > by the government. > > Yet, despite the obvious conflict of interest, Al Gore did not hesitate > to solicit donations from the very same company he had just tried to > strong-arm. Al dialed for money from the same company that needed the > administration's approval for export. > > In the end... Money was exchanged and services were rendered. China now > has the RSA crypto technology, Al Gore got the donation money and > "Sandy" Robertson stands to become even richer. > > 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 > -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3
