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- Path: sparky!uunet!infoserv!lila!dorsey
- From: dorsey@lila.com (Bill Dorsey)
- Subject: Re: RIPEM and RSAREF available by anonymous ftp !!!
- Message-ID: <C0J4FJ.1v9@lila.com>
- Organization: Information Systems Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
- References: <1993Jan7.230942.12698@netcom.com> <a_rubin.726451742@dn66> <1993Jan8.013726.3503@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:45:18 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1993Jan8.013726.3503@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >Arthur Rubin posts a factually incorrect message echoing Perry
- >Metzger's assertion that I'm the only one with my position on
- >ITAR.
- >
- >I have the e-mail to prove otherwise.
- >
- Your views are clearly in the minority -- at least in this group. Not
- only that, I think everyone is sick and tired of hearing them over and
- over like a broken record.
-
- >It's a common propaganda technique to try to squelch those with whom
- >one disagrees by pretending they are somehow alone in their views,
- >with the implication that "normal" people wouldn't have such views.
- >
- It's a common propoganda technique to try to squelch those with whom
- one disagrees by claiming that their attacks on you are common propoganda.
-
- >Though Metzger's oft-announced extreme political views makes his
- >post unsurprising, from what I know of Rubin he should know better.
- >
- You're the one with the extreme political views -- at least in relation
- to the readership of this group. And you're generating an awful lot of
- hostility by asserting the validity of your own views over those of
- others. You are so effective at doing this that you have almost single-
- handedly managed to lower the signal-to-noise ratio here to the point
- that a lot of people are unsubscribing.
-
- In the last 20 days, David Sternlight has managed to post 71 articles
- to sci.crypt. That's more than 3 1/2 per day. It wasn't long ago when
- sci.crypt only contained about 3-4 messages per day. In comparison,
- Perry Metzger and Arthur Rubin have posted 10 and 25 messages in the
- last 20 days respectively. I doubt I could find another poster to
- sci.crypt that has posted even half as many articles as David Sternlight
- has in the past 20 days. And I doubt I could find more than a couple of
- instances of an article posted by David Sternlight in the past 20 days
- that contains anything other than political and ethical ramblings which
- I assert the vast majority of the readers of this group would prefer not
- to read.
-
- --
- Bill Dorsey "Most people mistake law for justice and authority for
- dorsey@lila.com liberty. You will hear them talk of 'liberty under law,'
- PGP 2.x public and they are content to see it so deep under the law that
- key on request it is completely obliterated." -- Herbert Spencer
-