[13521] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks Goals: Bad debate drives out good debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer)
Thu May 12 00:52:47 1994
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 21:48:49 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, tcmay@netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <199405120237.TAA17015@netcom.netcom.com> from "Timothy C. May" at May 11, 94 07:38:05 pm
From: Sameer <sameer@soda.berkeley.edu>
Good post. Here's a reply. =)
Tim said:
>
> What is going on?
>
You have a good summary of what's going on. Personally I've
found it useful to create a filter for my cypherpunks mail to send
posts from people whom I respect more into a seperate folder such that
the signal-to-noise ratio in that folder is higher. When I have more
time I read the folder with the lower signal-to-noise ratio, but I
often do not have those resources.
I don't really have to deal with bad posts because I don't see
most of them unless I have some extra time on my hands... Others
interested in rational discussion and debate and actual-doing-things
might find this a useful technique.
