[267] in Cypherpunks
Swaine Flames Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
Fri May 7 18:51:34 1993
Date: Fri, 7 May 93 16:34:21 EDT
From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Nice editorial on the back page of the June Dr. Dobb's:
"Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, Dorothy"
I won't quote the whole thing, but the first paragraph reads:
"The debate on digital-telephony legislation in the March 1993 issue
of *Communications of the ACM* was a fraud and a dissappointment."
It's by Michael Swaine. More serious than "Swaine's Flames"
sometimes are.
Cypherpunks reminds me of the very first issues of "Dr. Dobb's
Journal of TINY BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia: Running
Light without Overbyte." Those days, when it seemed we all
had a chance to steer the future, were over fast.
-fnerd
