Re: okay already

> Wow, you are not interested in the gritty details of bad eggs in the 
> anti-spam community? It is no wonder spam-l died given the number of bad 
> eggs that posed as whitehat members on that list with people in all the 
> 'high places' involved.

 My sarcasm-o-meter just blew up. I have no idea how to interpret this
paragraph. Just to be sure, here is an answer:

 There are, of course, such things as corruption, heavy lobbying,
committee bullying, and all other sorts of political warfare that are
ultimately harmful to technical people and users (just like civilians
are the ultimate losers in any kind of war).
 (Examples of these things can be found aplenty in the "namedroppers"
mailing-list archives, shortly after djbdns came out, when DJB was
attacking BIND on technical grounds and was never answered the same
way.)
 I have no doubt "bad eggs" can be found in the Chinese government
and people with a long list of titles who decide how the Chinese
part of the Internet should work and interact with the rest of the
world. Among other places.

 *But* all this has nothing to do with conspiracy theories made up
by local crackpot Dean Anderson, who will find any reason to slander
(sorry, "discredit") anyone who does not agree with him. For your own
sanity of mind, take what he says about people with a metric ton of salt.

-- 
 Laurent