[43022] in Cypherpunks
Re: DejaNews all over again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Tue Nov 7 00:01:42 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:41:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: Damaged Justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511062222.RAA14762@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Damaged Justice wrote:
> My two cents: I've used Dejanews for almost a month now, and have been
> consistently impressed with the results. The uses are many; the danger,
> as others have noted, is that people forget (or never realize in the
> first place) that you should never post anything to Usenet that you
> wouldn't want to see plastered on the evening news.
>
> Having said that, I'm greatly looking forward to the impending addition
> of the alt.* groups to their archives. Everyone is indeed a Kibo now,
> and the general public has become more aware of the need for reputations
> as a result.
I absitively agree. I have no quarrel with archiving and redistributing
public information. I think it's great.
Might also help spread aewareness of the anonymity options available. It
would be good to see if the dejanews folks would give the anon servers a
plug. Anybody friendly with them?
-rich
