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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Nonlinear Amplification of Information
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.224335.14204@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan09.150910.8570@convex.com> <1993Jan9.221553.4648@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:43:35 GMT
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- Robert Cain posts another of the distortions I've grown used to from him:
-
- In article <1993Jan9.221553.4648@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- >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.
-
- Since I have no interest in ripem vs. pgp, or in RSA, and as I've
- said to some I actually like the PGP interface much more, my
- messages can hardly be called self-serving.
-
- >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.
-
- This is another of Cain's falsehoods. The issue was playing games,
- MUDs, etc. at public expense, and I argued that one might question
- this based on the NSF guidelines. Very few users, not "most of us"
- were involved in doing that. Cain didn't much like that suggestion,
- and responded with personal invective of the sort his current message
- is a comparatively restrained example.
-
- The rest of Cain's message consists mostly of personal attacks, and
- i won't dignify them with a reply.
-
- I will point out that he's one who seems to be deliberately violating
- RSA's patents by offering to correspond in both PGP 1.0 and 2.0
- from a site actually quite near to RSA's offices in Northern
- California, and that perhaps reveals more about Cain than anything
- I can say.
-
- David
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