December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Network of majordomos (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:33:03 -0800 > From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> > Subject: Re: Network of majordomos (fwd) > Yes, I installed INN and ran a few hundred test messages through it last > night. My machine will be on the net full-time Thursday or Friday. Will yours > be ready then, too? The mailing list was ready yesterday. Currently I have about a dozen subscribers who are testing it. Igor has his list up and I expect that we will begin the cross-subscription process on Saturday or Sunday. I sent a 'who is here' message to cypherpunks-hosts(a)algebra.com and have not received any replies. > If you need some help setting it up, let me know. It can be a little tricky > if you haven't done it before. Thanks, I'll factor that into my equation. I, however won't be acting as a mail-to-news gateway at this point. What I would like to see would be a news site which sent a copy of each incoming message to a mailing list and would have an email address where each new submission to the mailing list would get sent to. To make it really interesting would be to use two seperate remailers, one for each traffic path. Had you thought of taking your news that far? Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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alt.cypherpunks created
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to DejaNews, Mike Duvos has also issued a newgroup for alt.cypherpunks: >Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.cypherpunks >From: mpd(a)netcom.com (Mike Duvos) >Date: 1997/02/11 >Message-Id: <mpdE5GMA8.ABH(a)netcom.com> >Sender: mpd(a)netcom12.netcom.com >Control: newgroup alt.cypherpunks >Organization: Netcom On-Line Services >Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks > > > >alt.cypherpunks is an unmoderated newsgroup, needed as a replacement >for the high volume Cypherpunks mailing list, which is being evicted >from its longtime home at toad.com due to creative differences with >the site owner, John Gilmore. > >For your newsgroups file: > >alt.cypherpunks Technological defenses for privacy > >Some background on Cypherpunks, snipped from the mailing list welcome >message, follows... > >Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more of it. >Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for >themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, >faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence. >Cypherpunks know that people have been creating their own privacy for >centuries with whispers, envelopes, closed doors, and couriers. >Cypherpunks do not seek to prevent other people from speaking about their >experiences or their opinions. > >The most important means to the defense of privacy is encryption. To >encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy. But to encrypt with weak >cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Cypherpunks >hope that all people desiring privacy will learn how best to defend it. > >Cypherpunks are therefore devoted to cryptography. Cypherpunks wish to >learn about it, to teach it, to implement it, and to make more of it. >Cypherpunks know that cryptographic protocols make social structures. >Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to defend it. Cypherpunks >know just how hard it is to make good cryptosystems. > >Cypherpunks love to practice. They love to play with public key >cryptography. They love to play with anonymous and pseudonymous mail >forwarding and delivery. They love to play with DC-nets. They love to >play with secure communications of all kinds. > >Cypherpunks write code. They know that someone has to write code to >defend privacy, and since it's their privacy, they're going to write it. >Cypherpunks publish their code so that their fellow cypherpunks may >practice and play with it. Cypherpunks realize that security is not built >in a day and are patient with incremental progress. > >Cypherpunks don't care if you don't like the software they write. >Cypherpunks know that software can't be destroyed. Cypherpunks know that >a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. > >Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy. > >-- > Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ > mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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CAPI 2.0 beta!
by anand abhyankar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hi guys, anybody used the Microsoft CAPI 2.0? anand....

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Re: META: Censorship is Going Way too Far
by Otto Matic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And I was very surprized to see this posting in the flames trash can!! Tim is just calling the Cypherpunks to task. Tim, what have you done to deserve such treatment? What agenda is it that makes it seem as if the machine hosting this mailing list will be in the wrong hands? Like the shadow government? Sorry they are giving you the Dr. V. treatment! >From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Tue Feb 11 05:57:27 1997 >Fellow Cypherpunks (of the virtual community, even if not part of any >particular version of the list(s)), Articles are dated: > >* 2/7/97, 1:46 p.m. PST > >* 2/7/97, 1:59 p.m., PST > >* 2/7/97, 3:03 p.m., PST > >* 2/7/97, 9:46 p.m., PST otto =-=-=-=-=- Otto Matic "Fuckin' A, Miller!" Bud, Repo Man --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------

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Excerpt on SPAM from Edupage, 11 February 1997
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

maybe relief is in sight; can we spell excedrin? on or about 970211:1433 educom(a)elanor.oit.unc.edu said: +COURT GRANTS COMPUSERVE INJUNCTION AGAINST JUNK E-MAIL +A U.S. district court in Ohio has granted CompuServe's request for a +preliminary injunction barring Cyber Promotions Inc. from sending +unsolicited e-mail to its subscribers while the commercial provider +pursues its lawsuit against Cyber Promotions. The injunction was +granted after Cyber Promotions foiled CompuServe's initial attempts to +block its messages by falsifying the point-of-origin information on +its e-mail messages and by configuring its network servers to conceal +its actual Internet domain name. "To the extent that defendant's +multitudinous electronic mailings demand the disk space and drain the +processing power of plaintiff's computer equipment, those resources +are not available to CompuServe subscribers," the court reasoned. In +addition, because many subscribers had complained to CompuServe about +the mailings, the court found that Cyber Promotions' intrusions +constituted "harm" as well as trespassing under common tort law. The +court found that the "plaintiff is not a government agency or a state +actor which seeks to preempt defendants' ability to communicate but is +instead a private actor trying to tailor the nuances of its service to +provide maximum utility to its customers." (BNA Daily Report for +Executives 7 Feb 97) ___________________________________________________________attila_____ "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." --Salvador Dali ___________________________________________________________attila_____ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0

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Re: Network of majordomos (fwd)
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 09:17 AM 2/12/97 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: [quoting me] >> Usenet technology does exactly what you're describing: it's a distributed >> database of messages designed to facilitate each server getting its own copy >> of every message, and holding it locally for distribution to interested >> readers. Other people have been kind enough to write, debug, and document the >> software - all you have to do is install it. This could be running tonight. > >Did you get it running last nite Greg? When do you expect to be able to >handle traffic? Yes, I installed INN and ran a few hundred test messages through it last night. My machine will be on the net full-time Thursday or Friday. Will yours be ready then, too? If you need some help setting it up, let me know. It can be a little tricky if you haven't done it before. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQEVAgUBMwJE/f37pMWUJFlhAQH/9Af9E9FqR2oQXmL77j6wVnoD1Szh4FH3a8X+ Kc9GILJO0b6PpjNh2qEG2xTs2XYW6GgKmnQVqyA92otB8LtZND46LAuef5IQgbgD BxYPiUp5rgrhwpx1ArFqT6GfQQKIjFHNpSqyximWSv+TmoK/ptx/uhA7jP+VmOKy 5mbYhXZbbH/GXKa5W+pZzjHu6XEXMl9L4jiMdgWZAmkkn2OTpkUFu9N/FosoiQw+ tK33WqQtNX5N/gqvO5sOZYEgOlmJMzM+f5sqtbGnokc3FxZQxwRbshmJ5xRPkOtU rcLzL7/jzP03nQfGLHj4iFzUgPO+rYQ/ur5VxSuR/svZvm+XIxuqOg== =jxJb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |

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Re: Network of majordomos (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:33:03 -0800 > From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> > Subject: Re: Network of majordomos (fwd) > Yes, I installed INN and ran a few hundred test messages through it last > night. My machine will be on the net full-time Thursday or Friday. Will yours > be ready then, too? The mailing list was ready yesterday. Currently I have about a dozen subscribers who are testing it. Igor has his list up and I expect that we will begin the cross-subscription process on Saturday or Sunday. I sent a 'who is here' message to cypherpunks-hosts(a)algebra.com and have not received any replies. > If you need some help setting it up, let me know. It can be a little tricky > if you haven't done it before. Thanks, I'll factor that into my equation. I, however won't be acting as a mail-to-news gateway at this point. What I would like to see would be a news site which sent a copy of each incoming message to a mailing list and would have an email address where each new submission to the mailing list would get sent to. To make it really interesting would be to use two seperate remailers, one for each traffic path. Had you thought of taking your news that far? Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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alt.cypherpunks created
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to DejaNews, Mike Duvos has also issued a newgroup for alt.cypherpunks: >Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.cypherpunks >From: mpd(a)netcom.com (Mike Duvos) >Date: 1997/02/11 >Message-Id: <mpdE5GMA8.ABH(a)netcom.com> >Sender: mpd(a)netcom12.netcom.com >Control: newgroup alt.cypherpunks >Organization: Netcom On-Line Services >Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks > > > >alt.cypherpunks is an unmoderated newsgroup, needed as a replacement >for the high volume Cypherpunks mailing list, which is being evicted >from its longtime home at toad.com due to creative differences with >the site owner, John Gilmore. > >For your newsgroups file: > >alt.cypherpunks Technological defenses for privacy > >Some background on Cypherpunks, snipped from the mailing list welcome >message, follows... > >Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more of it. >Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for >themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, >faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence. >Cypherpunks know that people have been creating their own privacy for >centuries with whispers, envelopes, closed doors, and couriers. >Cypherpunks do not seek to prevent other people from speaking about their >experiences or their opinions. > >The most important means to the defense of privacy is encryption. To >encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy. But to encrypt with weak >cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Cypherpunks >hope that all people desiring privacy will learn how best to defend it. > >Cypherpunks are therefore devoted to cryptography. Cypherpunks wish to >learn about it, to teach it, to implement it, and to make more of it. >Cypherpunks know that cryptographic protocols make social structures. >Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to defend it. Cypherpunks >know just how hard it is to make good cryptosystems. > >Cypherpunks love to practice. They love to play with public key >cryptography. They love to play with anonymous and pseudonymous mail >forwarding and delivery. They love to play with DC-nets. They love to >play with secure communications of all kinds. > >Cypherpunks write code. They know that someone has to write code to >defend privacy, and since it's their privacy, they're going to write it. >Cypherpunks publish their code so that their fellow cypherpunks may >practice and play with it. Cypherpunks realize that security is not built >in a day and are patient with incremental progress. > >Cypherpunks don't care if you don't like the software they write. >Cypherpunks know that software can't be destroyed. Cypherpunks know that >a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. > >Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy. > >-- > Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ > mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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List-Managers list info
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by webmaster＠extensis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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