New MacPGP2.3a has arrived.

I know you guys like to talk instead of act, but outside of your
little debate club are real programmers building the future. One
work has been completed, a debugged and AE aware MacPGP. Please
release it, as it's source code is available. FTP to ftp.netcom.com
and cd to /pub/mpj and read README to get the name of the directory.
It's amazing that I've been at this a week and the rest of the
world is playing with it already, but whenever I get news of your
list, I hear there has been no action taken on this new release.

BTW, the author in Germany will be updating this soon, and has finally
decided to release source as well.

catalyst-remailer@netcom.com says:
> I know you guys like to talk instead of act, but outside of your
> little debate club are real programmers building the future. One
> work has been completed, a debugged and AE aware MacPGP. Please
> release it, as it's source code is available. FTP to ftp.netcom.com
> and cd to /pub/mpj and read README to get the name of the directory.
> It's amazing that I've been at this a week and the rest of the
> world is playing with it already, but whenever I get news of your
> list, I hear there has been no action taken on this new release.

Is my lack of action on this topic going to be of real impact to me?
Will I be thrown in jail for not knowing what AE is, or why MacPGP
might want to be aware of it? Will my inactivity result in the deaths
of millions of sea otters?

You hear that there has been "no action taken" on this new release.
I promise to tapdance wildly later today.

I know that many people assume that others will drop everything and
immediately start doing whatever they ask, but frankly, why should *I*
care? I don't even own a Mac ferchrissake.


Perry

PS please don't take this as a denigration of your work. I'm sure its
good work, and I'm sure its of use to some people, perhaps even many
people. I'm only suprised that you think that *everyone* should drop
everything and pay attention.

> catalyst-remailer@netcom.com says:
> > It's amazing that I've been at this a week and the rest of the
> > world is playing with it already, but whenever I get news of your
> > list, I hear there has been no action taken on this new release.
> 
Perry E. Metzger writes
> [offensive ranting deleted]
> I know that many people assume that others will drop everything and
> immediately start doing whatever they ask, but frankly, why should *I*
> care? I don't even own a Mac ferchrissake.

This little rant would sound better if it came from one of the
cypherpunks that had actually written some code on some machine
recently.

I recommend that Perry eat a pizza supreme with double cheese
and salami. 

I have only done a little, but I have not flamed those who do
more.

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James A. Donald says:
> Perry E. Metzger writes
> > [offensive ranting deleted]
> > I know that many people assume that others will drop everything and
> > immediately start doing whatever they ask, but frankly, why should *I*
> > care? I don't even own a Mac ferchrissake.
> 
> This little rant would sound better if it came from one of the
> cypherpunks that had actually written some code on some machine
> recently.

I love James Donald.

I'm probably one of the few people on this list who is actively
involved in cryptography as a business, albeit in a startup capacity.

> I recommend that Perry eat a pizza supreme with double cheese
> and salami. 

Most people wouldn't understand your reference, so I'll explain. I'm a
vegan. James thinks that he's making himself sound more impressive by
being personally insulting. Unfortunately, he doesn't understand that
I don't insult easily -- certainly the suggestion that I eat meat and
cheese isn't terribly stinging. I can take consolation in the fact
that James is likely accumulating cholesterol plaques in his arteries
as we speak, and I am thus likely to outlive him.

Perry