[65927] in Cypherpunks
Cypherpunks is dead anyway... (was Cypherpunk Enquirer)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Sep 19 14:06:34 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:41:41 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:39:07 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
The Enquirer wrote...
> Scientists flocked to toad.com recently in response to the first
> authenticated sighting of a Perrygram in months. The Perrygram,
> only recently thought extinct, was spotted on the cypherpunks
> mailing list after an absence of several months. Specialists
> speculate that it may have detected the recent list increase in its
> favorite food - pure, unadulterated bullshit.
In fact, Perrygrams are dead because I've given up on this list.
There is no more cryptography discussion going on -- the list is
basically a very low grade political rant forum, with most of the
rants having no relevance to crypto.
(I suppose "I told you so" doesn't help much.)
Anyway, as soon as I find a home for Cypherpunks Mark II I'm starting
it and unsubscribing from here. Cypherpunks is dead. This happens to
all mailing lists eventually. I suppose it had to happen here.
(Finding a new list home has been a low priority project for me
recently because I've been busy with "real work" -- however, if you
run (I emphasize *run*) a well connected site and can handle a list
with 1500 subscribers or so, and don't mind a somewhat more
restrictive charter than "post anything you like at any time", please
get in touch.)
Perry
