anonymous poster quality up

I notice that the quality of anonymous submissions to the discussion
here on cypherpunks has increased markedly lately.

I can see a couple of reasons why this might be: Monty Cantsin seems
to write consistently good stuff, Tim May announced he may be using
some nyms, and we have this big argument with PGP Inc where their
employees may feel pressure not to speak out of line.  One suspects
that some of the anonymous contributors exploring the issues are
actually PGP employees:-)

Regardless of who the new anonymous contributors are, it's nice to see
quality anonymous posts, keep it up!

Adam
-- 
Now officially an EAR violation...
Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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At 1:52 AM -0700 10/9/97, Adam Back wrote:
>I notice that the quality of anonymous submissions to the discussion
>here on cypherpunks has increased markedly lately.
>
>I can see a couple of reasons why this might be: Monty Cantsin seems
>to write consistently good stuff, Tim May announced he may be using
>some nyms, and we have this big argument with PGP Inc where their

Thanks for the sort-of compliment, but I haven't been using anonymous
remailers much at all the last couple of years.

Someone wrote to me saying he suspected I was "Monty Cantsin." Nope.

I know denials like this mean nothing to some of you--they certainly meant
nothing to Detweiler several years ago. But, for the record, virtually
every comment I have made on this list in the last couple of years has been
under my own name.

I agree that some good comments have come from anonymous posters.


- --Tim May (I'll sign this with my new PGP 5.0 key, which has also been
signed with my 1992 PGP 2.0 key)


The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> Thanks for the sort-of compliment, but I haven't been using
> anonymous remailers much at all the last couple of years.

My reason for commenting was that you recently commented that you
planned to experiment with Nyms soon, but wouldn't be announcing when.

> Someone wrote to me saying he suspected I was "Monty Cantsin." Nope.

I must admit that I also had noticed a small similarity in vocabulary
used by Cantsin, certain phrases, etc -- perhaps he's trying to
simulate your writing style, or perhaps he just naturally has similar
writing characteristics.  I'll take you word on it, anyway.

Not that it matters really -- a good point in an argument is still a
good point where ever it comes from.  I'm finding that the
non-persistent anonymous user(s) are having meaningful discourse on
pgp CAKware (I like to think of them as anonymous PGP employees -- and
I hope they're finding my comments useful -- of course it is mere
speculation or wishful thinking on my part that they are anything to
do with PGP Inc -- they could be anyone).

Adam
-- 
Now officially an EAR violation...
Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`