From eugen@leitl.org Mon Dec 15 06:42:22 2003 From: Eugen Leitl To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: cpunk-like meeting report Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 06:42:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20031215112842.GI22728@leitl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7719487011383690828==" --===============7719487011383690828== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:36:12PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > No, we don't need a "cpunx-news" list. This is what Google and the > ability to see hundreds of various lists and sites is for. This is a bogus statement. As long as I can't use a single keyword to make Google's news alerts topical, and _full text_ a search engine is rather useless. > "News" lists tend strongly to be just dumping grounds for crap from > other lists. The point is that you don't have to subscribe to 20-odd email lists, which have about 5% relevance each. Life's too short for that. People are the best filters, and with a handful of sustained contributors the list becomes a valuable resource. > I failed the entrance exam for "Interesting People," which is fine, for > obvious reasons. Case in point: most of IP list traffic is garbage from a cypherpunk point of view. Let one list subscriber read it, and filter relevant bits to the newsticker. If it's a steaming pile of crap for Tim May it doesn't mean it's useless for everybody else. -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] --===============7719487011383690828==--