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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: Nonlinear Amplification of Information
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.221553.4648@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan09.150910.8570@convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:15:53 GMT
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- I have watched and crossed swords with Mr. Sternlight before in other
- groups. One thing to know about him is that in whatever group or
- discussion in which he participates he manages to find the most
- extreme, unpopular and self serving position he can to draw the most
- flames, contoversy and attention. He seems to me to be primarily a
- net.masochist. He argued vociferously in a local netcom group that
- most of us there had no right to be on the internet because we had no
- "legitimate" academic or research purposes whereas he of course did.
- From the ammount of effort he puts in to it it seems that his area of
- resarch is the sociology of net.confrontation. This is just one
- example, there are others. Please consider this to reduce our noise
- level before responding to or otherwise engaging his egocentricity in
- the future.
-
- I have been watching this example of his nonsense in silence because I
- do not like engaging in personal or ad hominum attacks but he has
- finally pissed me off sufficiently that feel I have to speak out.
- While I too am a supporter and future licensee of RSA and PKP, with
- friends like him they need few enemies.
-
- On the subject of RSA and PKP, people should really find out for
- themselves the facts regarding the cost and availability of licenses
- from them before blindly attacking. In my experience they are more
- than reasonable. I was astonished when I finally quit buying the net
- legends and asked them.
-
- Your shot David, but don't expect a response.
-
- Bob
- --
- Bob Cain rcain@netcom.com 408-358-2007
-
- 'The meek shall inherit the earth--the rest of us will move on..'
- Sameer Parekh
-
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- PGP 1.0 or 2.0 public key available on request.
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