Re: Help A Novice Understand

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>Someone said that Sternlight is a high-placed govt official.  I don't
>believe this.  I think he is a retired old fart with a home computer
>and an internet acct.
>
   Having been naive enough to actually read a number of his posts
regarding PGP-related topics on the usenet groups, I would likewise
be amazed if "Dr. Sternlight" was indeed a 'highly placed' govt
official, if for no other reason than it would be inconceivable 
for any branch of our government that's supposed to operate in secret 
to allow the stream of effluent that he generates over the net to 
appear _with attribution_.  A wanna-be net-cop with too much time
on his hands, perhaps, but a high government offical in a 
super-secret agency???  NOT!
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cp's,
matt just mentioned that remailer@soda doesn't accept "Request-Remailing-To" 
header lines (which explains why i thought it was dead) and i note that not 
all other remailers accept "Anon-Send-To:".  anarchy has it's place in 
our lives but, it would be nice to cut down on sode come in remailing and 
ping scripts.  the three close to standard headers seem to be 
"Anon-Send-To:", "Request-Remailing-To:", and "X-Anon-To:".  it would be 
more convenient :) for all remailers to either allow all three or settle 
on one standard (nfl).

thanks,
steve

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> >Someone said that Sternlight is a high-placed govt official.  I don't
> >believe this.
 
(That someone was me, folks.)
 
According to Tommy <nobody@soda.berkeley.edu>
  David Sternlight is a member of the council on foreign
  relations (pg. 176 of the 1993 Annual Report of the CFR)
 
  The following Executive Branch officials are also 
  members of this organization:
 
  William J. Clinton, President
  Lloyd Cutler, Counsel to the President
  George Stephanopoulos, Senior Advisor
  David Gergen, Assistant to the President for Communications
  W. Anthony Lake, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  Samuel R. Berger, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security
  Adm. William Crowe, Jr., Chairman, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
  John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
  Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Staff, Army     \
  Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, Chief of Staff, Air Force  > Joint Chiefs of Staff
  Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Commandant, Marine Corps      /
  R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence
  Adm. William O. Studeman, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
  Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Chairman, National Intelligence Council
 
  **Stephan Breyer, Current nominee to the Supreme Court
  **Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
 
(Paranoid commentary by Tommy edited out)
 
 
R. J. Harvey writes
> I would likewise
> be amazed if "Dr. Sternlight" was indeed a 'highly placed' govt
> official, if for no other reason than it would be inconceivable 
> for any branch of our government that's supposed to operate in secret 
> to allow the stream of effluent that he generates over the net to 
> appear _with attribution_. 
 
Compared to your typical high government official, David
Sternlight is a genius.  Indeed if they were all as smart
as he is, I would be slightly worried - but only very
slightly.  :-)
 
 
 
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