NODE 489139bfRe: ISPs' information on users
tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:34:57 +0800
At 2:43 PM 9/25/96, Phil Fraering wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>> (There's a certain new ISP with tight links to a quasi-religious group much
>> in the news lately, and some have speculated that this ISP may be
>> monitoring certain users....)
>>
>> --Tim May
>
>Which ISP and religious group is this?
Just why do you think I was elliptical in my comments? To type three lines
instead of just typing the name? Think about it.
With Webcrawlers looking for names of organizations--and the Cypherpunks
archives show up on such searches--and with some organizations being very
quick to sue for perceived defamation....
--Tim May
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NODE 3d674127Re: ISPs' information on users
Phil Fraering <pgf@acadian.net>Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:02:17 +0800
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> Just why do you think I was elliptical in my comments? To type three lines
> instead of just typing the name? Think about it.
Oh. That organization. I thought it was simply because the topic had been
done to death.
Speaking of topics being done to death, I'm probably going to cease my
subscription to cypherpunks as soon as my subscription to the filtered
list is confirmed. (Which is why I'm not following up to Vulis' messages
any more... the conversation would probably stop anyway when I stopped
seeing his half of the messages, and I probably wouldn't see mine on
the filtered list anyway...)
> With Webcrawlers looking for names of organizations--and the Cypherpunks
> archives show up on such searches--and with some organizations being very
> quick to sue for perceived defamation....
This brings up something else: the last time I tried to find the
cypherpunks archives on a web search they didn't show up.
The last time I accessed them was in March, and they were kind-of sick
then... I guess things just got too bad for the archival scheme to handle?
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