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Re: The Cost of Snakeoil (was Re: John Gilmore and the Great Internet Snake Drive)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Jul 21 12:12:30 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:08:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <salzr@certco.com>
To: caj@math.niu.edu, cmcurtin@interhack.net, coderpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
e$@vmeng.com, eay@cryptsoft.com, gnu@toad.com, jlowry@bbn.com,
rah@shipwright.com
I think it is useful to distinguish between snake oil -- something that
never really worked -- and obsolete.
I'd go even strong -- it does a disservice to our community to mix up
the two concepts.
/r$
