On 9/3/16 11:32 PM, juan wrote:

	Playing with the 92-98 archive...

From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 10:48:20 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CYPHERPUNK considered harmful.

	"Similarly, there's the Libertarian Party, with similar themes
	to our own..."

	"Getting back to your suggestion that "we" change the name to
	something more respectable. How could "we" do this, given that
	"we" are an effective anarchy?"

The group was "an effective anarchy". So is hanging out with your friends. Corporations (and families for that matter) are, classically, dictatorships. Does that make the political and economic system they operate in dictatorships too?

	"Form your own group, your own mailing list, with a catchy
	name, something like "The Privacy Education Foundation," or
	"The American Civil Liberties Union" (whoops, taken), or "The
	Society for the Preservation of Cyberspatial Liberty."
"
	"Evolution in action. The market in action. A better approach
	than trying to get the name and the charter changed."

A market in action...

ps: messages from the great philosopher Stephen D. Williams? 77 in
total, stopped posting in 1995 - messages are either content free or
nerdy, useless, technical stuff.

And firewalls:
http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls/archive/firewalls.199502

We were talking about crypographic and security related topics, like firewalls and protocols, time stamping services (which I implemented a couple times for widely used services), etc. I even found time to correct Tim May, who cried uncle sort of. ;-) I happened to have personal knowledge of that situation.

I wasn't mature enough to philosophize much then.

I lurked later, being extremely busy implementing things and other pursuits.

sdw