[42831] in Cypherpunks
Re: Many Topics are Appropriate for Discussion Here
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Fri Nov 3 19:58:22 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 19:30:23 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199511031947.OAA00318@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Nov 3, 95 02:47:43 pm
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Perry writes:
> I don't care about quantity. Steve Bellovin is worth 500 subscribers
> -- maybe 1000. I'd rather hear his or Phil's off the cuff remarks on a
> lot of this stuff than most of what passes for careful thought from
> the average person here.
I have some not-so-hypothetical questions:
Suppose I have serious and plausibly realistic aspirations to become an
authority in some subtopic of cryptography, network security, etc. (sometime
well into the next millenium). Am I more likely to learn and hone my skills
by actively participating (sticking my neck out) or merely lurking
indefinitely ? Regardless of the answer to the previous question, should
the list suffer me my missteps and naivete ?
I do not consider these questions rhetorical, and the answers are very
important to me on a personal level.
And now I believe I'll shut up for a while.
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
