[108006] in Cypherpunks
openpgp.net (Was: Re: Australian Crypto?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Sun Jan 31 21:25:39 1999
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:15:36 -0500
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <v03130316b2d9263a866d@[209.66.100.116]>, on 01/30/99
at 07:00 PM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
>I see that this message is being sent to "cypherpunks@openpgp.net". Is
>this a full-fledged equal to the other Cypherpunks Distributed Remailers,
>like cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com, and
>cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com?
>If so, when was this announced? CDR operators should announce their
>existence and their policies when they become part of the system.
>I'm adding cypherpunks@cyberpass.net to the distribution above, just in
>case the cypherpunks@openpgp.net is not fully distributed by the other
>CDR sites.
Currently cypherpunks@openpgp.net is only linked to
cypherpunks@einstein.szz.com.
I consider the list "experimental" at the present time (I don't think
anyone is even subscribed). I am running listproc rather than majordomo
and am having some mixed emotions about the software. listproc seems to
have some internal routines to protect the list against some spam, message
loops, and system messages from getting forwarded to the list.
Unfortunately this means that while less error messages get sent to the
list it also means that more "good" messages get dropped requiring me to
manually forward them.
As far as list policy I would imagine that it is the same as the other
node operators, no content filtering is done. No subscription is required
to post. No addresses are blocked. A message log is kept for list
maintenance and is removed on a monthly basis (via cron). The only
messages that I will try to keep from the list are obvious message loops
(multiple copies of the same message), system messages (ie: can't deliver
message messages). I do not do any active monitoring of messages to
determine if they are forwarded to the list. Any messages automatically
rejected by listproc are forwarded to postmaster@openpgp.net and then I
have to manually determine if they should be forwarded to the list or not.
I think that should cover it. If anyone has any questions feel free to
ask.
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