Talking to Jim

Gidday all

I emailed Jim Clark day before yesterday about his comments re key escrow.
He responded.  As it's not good form to post private email, might I suggest
that one of the 'elders' here put to Jim a list of questions on the proviso
that his answers can be posted to the list.  You never know, a lot of
speculation might be confirmed or denied.

cheers

Peter 


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> I emailed Jim Clark day before yesterday about his comments re key escrow.
> He responded.  

Woah. What a radical idea.

Have any of the people busily working away at web pages slamming Netscape
actually bothered to verify that Jim Clark actually said any of the things
he is rumored to have said? I haven't seen any documentation of anything
from what I would consider to be a reliable source. 

If you want to generate publicity about something, you better make damn
sure your facts are correct, or you'll end up looking like an idiot. 
Complaining that Clark didn't deny it isn't good enough.

                                    -- Will

PeterWiltshire writes:
> I emailed Jim Clark day before yesterday about his comments re key escrow.
> He responded.  As it's not good form to post private email, might I suggest
> that one of the 'elders' here put to Jim a list of questions on the proviso
> that his answers can be posted to the list.  You never know, a lot of
> speculation might be confirmed or denied.

Why doesn't he just post on his own? Its not like this mailing list is
unknown -- we got him bad press on the cover of the Times in the
past. Anyone is free to send email here.

Perry

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> PeterWiltshire writes:
> > I emailed Jim Clark day before yesterday about his comments re key escrow.
> > He responded.  As it's not good form to post private email, might I suggest
> > that one of the 'elders' here put to Jim a list of questions on the proviso
> > that his answers can be posted to the list.  You never know, a lot of
> > speculation might be confirmed or denied.
> 
> Why doesn't he just post on his own? Its not like this mailing list is
> unknown -- we got him bad press on the cover of the Times in the
> past. Anyone is free to send email here.

  Jim offered to send to the list directly, but given the recent gripes
about non-subscribers spamming the list, I thought it might be in bad
form, and offered to forward it to the list for him.  He doesn't really
have time to read cypherpunks himself.

	--Jeff

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