Politics
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   Cryptography in general, PGP in particular, and free software are
politically somewhat controversial topics.  Heck, in the U.S. Congress,
freedom of speech is a controversial topic.  Anyway, here are some
organizations you should definitely watch and preferably send lots of
money.

*The Electronic Frontier Foundation*
     The EFF (`http://www.eff.org/') works to protect civil liberties in
     cyberspace.  They also maintain an impressive collection of on-line
     resources.  If you like Mailcrypt so much that you wish you had
     paid for it, this is the number one place we would want to see
     your money go.  The EFF newsgroups, `comp.org.eff.news' and
     `comp.org.eff.talk', are required reading for the well-informed.

*The League for Programming Freedom*
     The LPF (`http://www.lpf.org/') works to fight software patents,
     which threaten to make free software like Mailcrypt impossible.

*The Center for Democracy and Technology*
     The CDT (`http://www.cdt.org/') has essentially the same goals as
     the EFF, but is more of a lobbying group.

   Mailcrypt's remailer support was inspired by the Communications
Decency Act of 1995 (see `http://www.cdt.org/cda.html') and by the
International "Church" of Scientology (see
`http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/rnewman/scientology/').