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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Is the ExI email list slowly dying out? And if so, what can be done to reverse such an outcome?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 21/10/2020 00:03, JF wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Otherwise this email thread will just be talk<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>Well, to be fair, this <i>is</i> called the "exi-chat" list. It's supposed to be 'just talk'.<br><br>Any spin-off groups for the purpose of actually doing something other than talk can be, and probably have been, done. Feel free to start one.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Ben Zaiboc<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hi Ben there were at least two projects that spun off from ExiChat. Julian Assange was part of a privacy discussion group but kept getting pissed off at anyone who wasn’t as extreme on it as he is (which was everybody) so he left and created WikiLeaks. Julian was always fighting everyone so he really wasn’t a good fit for ExiChat.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hal Finney, oh what guy, kindhearted, open, generous, smart as a whip, a jewel of a person. He asked many questions on ExIChat about encryption and such. A subgroup formed, he mostly led that, wrote the biggest fraction of the material. We don’t know for sure, but I think Hal originated the concept of block chain, and was a likely advisor to (or perhaps was one of) Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder(s) of BitCoin.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>