[107779] in Cypherpunks
Re: whine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Jan 23 03:17:59 1999
In-Reply-To: <eb1c61c1516eaa8eb6fbad6d157ffc07@anonymous>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:05:54 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 10:42 PM -0800 1/22/99, Mixmaster wrote:
>>"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net> wrote:
>>I've always been under the impression that one has to be moderatly
>>intelligient to discuss and comprehend the subtleties of cryptography.
>>
>>Apparently that's why nobody is discussing it.
>>
>>Thanks for wasting my time. To any moderator - clean it up.
>>
>>If you can't run with the big dogs then stay on the porch. Perhaps AOL is
>>more your speed.
>
>I'm more than happy to have an unmoderated chat. I just wish it'd
>restrict the list to people who are subscribed to it. That'd keep most of
>the spam out.
This has all been rehashed many, many times.
One of the main reasons for not restricting the list to those who are
subscribed is to allow remailed messages (or other non-identifying modes,
such as Hotmail, Port 25 hacks, Yahoo, etc.).
Ironic, given the "mixmaster@remail.obscura.com" usage here.
And of course anyone is free to either start their own list, or to even
take the Cypherpunks list(s) and then filter it or moderate it as they see
fit. There have been several such moderated or digestified versions. You,
whomever you are, are free to create a sublist or derivative list which
bounces remailed messages, whatever.
Like I said, this has all been rehashed many times. Check the archives.
--Tim May
Y2K -- Where were you when the lights went out?
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