[41823] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Oct 19 19:20:24 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:14:30 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199510182003.QAA06276@opine.cs.umass.edu> from "Futplex" at Oct 18, 95 04:03:37 pm
Futplex wrote:
| The fundamental conflict, as I see it, is this:
| For security reasons, we want messages to be distributed to a very wide
| audience, although those messages are only of interest to a very narrow
| audience. News admins understandably are generally inclined to accept
| bandwidth only in proportion to readership. For practical reasons, they don't
| want to carry messages to people who aren't interested in them. It's not
| easy to convince the news admins to do it anyway out of altruism.
How about a local group, such as ucb.anonymous? Those news
admins who wanted it could get it. Not perfect, but reduced
polyticks, increased usablity.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
