Re: do you still want to take part in the informal crypto group?

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> only if it can be done on an intellectual plane ....


Bill, It will only be done on an intellectual plane as almost all of my
actions are.


Damn, I am starting to get up real uptight but I don't like to be accused
of defaming a person who I have often and strongly defended as in the
following note to Dorothy:


> I have defended you often from
> people attacking your position as somehow biased. I repeatedly have said
> that while I disagree with your positions at times they are well thought
> out and reasonable.




In the past two years of my interesting people distribution  and in the
past thirty years of my career I have NEVER attacked a collegue in public
or put anyone else up to doing it. If I had read the note as a personal
attack I would NOT have sent it out.


I will accept a verdict of making a miscall even of using bad judgement on
that note -- it happens to all of us -- even you,, but I am now rather more
than upset in that you seem to have accussed me of aiding and abetting a
personal attack of Dorothy. I did not and as I have said above I have put
down people who have tried that.


Very upset


Dave