[108011] in Cypherpunks
CDR: Re: openpgp.net (Was: Re: Australian Crypto?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Sun Jan 31 22:52:29 1999
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:54:34 -0500
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <199902010128.UAA002.07@whgiii>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <199902010128.UAA002.07@whgiii>, on 01/31/99
at 09:15 PM, "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net> said:
>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.
FWIW I may still be in Tim May's twit filter and this may be the reason he
never saw my initial announcement about cypherpunks@openpgp.net back in
November '98. If someone would be kind enough to forward this message to
him so he is aware of the nodes status & policies.
tks,
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