The L.D. persona...

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Dave Womack asked,

>The other day, I noticed that MacPGP seemed
>to give credit to a person with the initials L. D.

In the MacPGP2.3 startup screen there appears
"... L. Detweiler....". He adapted John Norstad's
help routine for use in MacPGP. This was a vast
improvement over the documentation that came
with MacPGP2.2. You still need my "Here's How
to MacPGP!" guide though ;-).

He also wrote the "Privacy and Anonymity on
the Internet" FAQ, which is still regularly posted
to Usenet, and mentioned at the end of my Guide,
and is highly recommended reading.

Then he went koo-koo. Oh well.

I'm sure the old timers here know more about that
than I do.

 -=Xenon=-

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Xenon says:
> He also wrote the "Privacy and Anonymity on
> the Internet" FAQ, which is still regularly posted
> to Usenet, and mentioned at the end of my Guide,
> and is highly recommended reading.

Frankly, I think it sucks -- said so long before he went nuts. Its
full of factual errors (my favorite howler being that the US-Australia
link is "only" 500 megabytes a second in bandwidth), strange
constructions, and other junk. I also recall that I had several fights
with him early on because of his panic stricken howls of how "we" have
to do X and "we" have to do Y, as if there was a "we" here rather than
a mailing list. Can't say that I *ever* liked Mr. Detweiler.

Perry