December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: My messages not appearing on either of the lists?
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Mike Duvos wrote: > ...Messages apparently do not get moderated in the order in > which they are received... All messages are filtered and posted in the order in which I receive them. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Hello, Duncan
by Gr8SClaus＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I saw your listing for accessing senior citizens newsgroups through compuserve. Do you think, by chance, that the same would be possible through america online? I'm a senior citizen of 59 but find myself liking middle age to older and find the only source on line (that i can locate as am anateur) is netpics.com and you have to pay for this service. But I do enjoy looking at older GUYS and find mostly girls--even on netpics. Thanks. Dave

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Re: Which list am I on?
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Attila T. Hun wrote: > no way to tell what list your receiving from; the software Sandy > and John installed to facilitate their un-American activities is > hosed. in most cases it fails to apply the correct sender name, > defaulting to the main, supposedly censored list. That's why we call it a test. I have no software. Everything I'm doing is manual. Whatever John has done is probably jerry rigged just for the test. If list members opt for moderation, more effort will be put into the moderation infrastructure. The idea right now is to see how well a first aproximation of moderation works. If it seems like a step in the right direction, great. If everyone thinks it sucks, well that's great too. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Anyone have the complete info on CP list alternatives?
by Alan Barrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 18 Feb 1997, Bryan Reece wrote: > Filtering out other gateways' messages will reduce load at > the possible expense of delay (assuming a smallish network of news > servers that feed each other the list; obviously the message will > flood the majordomo net before it floods the real usenet unless > something is seriously broken). Why is it obvious that mail propagation will be faster than news propagation? News propagation times of small numbers of seconds are not at all uncommon. --apb (Alan Barrett)

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Any more like www.anonymizer.com ??
by Edgar W Swank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a list of web proxies for anonymous surfing? I already know about www.anonymizer.com, and there was a "canadianizer" that would alter text to make it more "Canadian", but that is now apparently defunct. Reason I need to know, a friend in a foreign country has to deal with a web proxy that blocks "objectionable" sites including www.anonymizer, so some alternates that might not be blocked would be welcome. Edgar W. Swank <EdgarSwank(a)Juno.com> (preferred) Edgar W. Swank <Edgar_W._Swank(a)ilanet.org> (for files/msgs >50K) Home Page: http://members.tripod.com/~EdgarS/index.html

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Re: DES and RSA crypto hardware from the free world
by Dan Geer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

These chips look *very* promising. Who needs Clipper, or HP's Clipper-under-another-name, when you can get triple DES from the free world at prices like this? The critical thing is to get the horse out of the barn before the door is barred. Each and every one of these sorts of vendors has to establish use and distribution on a wide basis before governments of any stripe start locking down on domestic use. There is little time and, yes, I am a paranoid who hopes thereby to survive. --dan

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Re: Anyone have the complete info on CP list alternatives?
by Alan Barrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Why is it obvious that mail propagation will be faster than news > >propagation? News propagation times of small numbers of seconds are not > >at all uncommon. > > News propagation in seconds to your _local server_, or to _distant_ > servers? To some (perhaps many, certainly not all) distant servers, provided all the news servers in the path run appropriate software (designed for low latency propagation) and have reasonably high bandwidth Internet links. Disk to disk delays smaller than 1 second have been measured between news servers that use software such as nntplink or innfeed to send outgoing articles immediately. > The Usenet is thousands of news servers, maybe tens of thousands, and > news feeds take a while...small articles are mixed in with hundreds of > megabytes a day of binaries. A percolation process, as opposed to a > point-to-point process for e-mail. Right. And some of those news links are fast, while others are slow. If two sites happen to be connected by fast news links, it's quite possible for news between those sites to be faster than mail. --apb (Alan Barrett)

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Re: Anyone have the complete info on CP list alternatives?
by Alan Barrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bryan Reece wrote: >> obviously the message will flood the majordomo net before it floods >> the real usenet unless something is seriously broken). I replied: > Why is it obvious that mail propagation will be faster than news > propagation? News propagation times of small numbers of seconds are > not at all uncommon. Sorry, I misunderstood the earlier message. I thought that it referred to news propagation between a small set of hosts versus mail propagation between the same small set of mail/news hosts, and I did not see why it was obvious that mail would be faster than news. But actually the earlier message refered to news propagation over the whole planet versus mail propagation between a small set of hosts, in which case of course news will be slower. --apb (Alan Barrett)

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alt.cypherpunks.ebonics
by Alec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Igor, A friend, who, in the CP tradition requested to remain anonymous, and I were doing an informal analysis of those subjects/topics which over the past year generated the most discussion and, by implication, interest on the CP list. Since the list at that time was reportedly unmoderated, we felt some weight should be given to members' interests/desires as measured by their posts, regardless of the applicability to the list topic. With the exceptions of AP (oh so clearly way off-topic), list censorship (too tedious), and remarks either questioning or affirming the sexuality/virility/femininity (or lack thereof ) of almost every CP subscriber, the topic which claimed the most bandwidth was Ebonics. It seemed to touch on several layers of CP interest: freedom of speech, obfuscation, tolerance, intolerance, phonetics, linguistics, race warfare, etc. You name it; just about every well-known c'punk jumped in to make some urbane statement on this, sadly, now dead and ignored issue. Nevertheless, the bandwidth was there! Note; any messages followed by Punctuation Art were excluded if they seemed to lack "dignity," for want of a better word. Based on the above stats (available from my friend on request), my anonymous friend and I request that you add Ebonics as an area of interest to Cypherpunks in your List Intro. Please judge this request on its merit and not on what you may think of me or my anonymous (asexual) friend personally, thereby, by that very action, initiating a New Order of Cypherpunks! Thanks for you consideration. More importantly, thank you for helping to keep this vibrant list alive. Alec (and friend) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 Comment: Message PGP 2.6.2. signed/encrypted. Public key available on request or from keyservers. iQCVAgUBMwnVrSKJGkNBIH7lAQEl9gP/XIujtLKrVf2l7MaR50rM/BO9wCkYQeHy 7UoISphHlxs8PScnxkw6PQsVHerd+FnxPJQ2xAnCa1gUujxuif8OrsYpInVcfEap 99KkC39DzAe+/zHrOR2Kt7MK+X8267oCIWl4Yt1VBkCSt8ruktCnIXF41ghyuHUt 3N7reRPx6Hs= =EMeF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anyone have the complete info on CP list alternatives?
by Timothy C. May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:35 PM +0200 2/18/97, Alan Barrett wrote: >On 18 Feb 1997, Bryan Reece wrote: >> Filtering out other gateways' messages will reduce load at >> the possible expense of delay (assuming a smallish network of news >> servers that feed each other the list; obviously the message will >> flood the majordomo net before it floods the real usenet unless >> something is seriously broken). > >Why is it obvious that mail propagation will be faster than news >propagation? News propagation times of small numbers of seconds are not >at all uncommon. News propagation in seconds to your _local server_, or to _distant_ servers? Articles I post do indeed appear "immediately" on my local site, but certainly not so immediately on distant sites. The Usenet is thousands of news servers, maybe tens of thousands, and news feeds take a while...small articles are mixed in with hundreds of megabytes a day of binaries. A percolation process, as opposed to a point-to-point process for e-mail. And I know that my site sometimes does not see articles for tens of hours, even days, after the initial act of distribution. (Sometimes articles appear more than a week late...presumably they've been lost to mu site on some railroad siding someplace.) This is why people say "News is slower than mail." --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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