Response to Perrygram

At 6:33 PM 2/13/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>Tim, you don't work for a living. Some of us do. You might try to
>think back and remember what it was like in the days when you still
>did something every once in a while and had a limited amount of time
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>available in which to do it.
>

Perry once again resorts to insults. Constantly belittling the efforts of
others suggests deepseated psychological doubts about his own
contributions.

Shows you the reaction I get for even responding to him. My mistake.

Perry should learn how to use mail filters, then he can simply filter out
all the stuff he doesn't want to see. Or, simply hitting the 'delete" key
in whatever reader he is using...surely typing "D" 20 or 30 times a day
takes far less time than writing one of his perrygrams?

--Tim May

Boycott espionage-enabled software!
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
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Timothy C. May writes:
> Perry once again resorts to insults. Constantly belittling the efforts of
> others suggests deepseated psychological doubts about his own
> contributions.

I have no deep seated psychological doubts about my own
contributions. I do, however, have a deep seated dislike for people
who wish to demonstrate their "freedom" by posting anything they like
wherever they like. Sure, you are "free" to do that, just like you are
"free" to burn down your own house, insult all your friends, or
anything else that isn't socially worthwhile. You have to ask, though,
if these are things in your interest or that will improve the world.

I will repeat, Tim. You have no job and do nothing for a living. For
you it is probably hard to understand that some of us prefer to get
our mail segregated by topic so that we don't have to spend more time
than needed reading our email. However, for some of us, time is
money. I have failed to directly answer your comments on this sort of
thing out of deference to your "elder statesman" status around here,
but this is getting silly. If you want to post about libertarianism,
libernet, so far as I know, still takes postings. If you want to read
about the habits of migrating birds, there are interest groups for
that. We don't have a lot of good places to discuss specifically
cryptography and its impact, and this group was set up *for that*.

I mean, why not just have one mailing list for all topics of all sorts
if "filtering" and "hitting the 'd' key" are supposed to be the only
way we deal with this stuff, hmm?

Perry

On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 6:33 PM 2/13/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> >Tim, you don't work for a living. Some of us do. You might try to
> >think back and remember what it was like in the days when you still
> >did something every once in a while and had a limited amount of time
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >available in which to do it.
> >
> 
> Perry once again resorts to insults. Constantly belittling the efforts of
> others suggests deepseated psychological doubts about his own
> contributions.
> 
> Shows you the reaction I get for even responding to him. My mistake.
> 
> Perry should learn how to use mail filters, then he can simply filter out
> all the stuff he doesn't want to see. Or, simply hitting the 'delete" key
> in whatever reader he is using...surely typing "D" 20 or 30 times a day
> takes far less time than writing one of his perrygrams?


Am I the only one who thinks that big money could be made selling tickets 
for a first class section in which Mr. Metzger and Mr. May were seated 
in 2a and 2b?  How about the video rights?  Would you two consider a show 
featuring the pair?  Cyphercrosstalk?  Crosspunks?


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