mailing lists on messages they send to Cypherpunks (or vice versa), we often get flooded with insults and spams from people who don't share our views. (While I have nothing against trying to recruit others to our views, in my opinion this is best done by judicious writing of essays for _them_, tuned to their interests, and not in mindless spamming of every list that might have a passing interest in some of the topics.) We already have enough traffic here, and don't need replies from a bunch of other lists, be they libertarian lists, digital commerce lists, human rights lists, or java lists. The latest example of this is the rantfest invvolving these players: ------ From: Jack Hammer <jh@teleport.com> To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> Cc: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com, nwlibertarians@teleport.com, hammernet-l@teleport.com, libernet-d@dartmouth.EDU, liberty-and-justice@pobox.com ------ I recognized Bell and Graves, but not the others. And I see no reason why our list should be dragged into flames about "fart sacks" by people on all of these other lists. This was the final straw, and I have no choice except to add Bell, Graves, Hammer, etc. to my filter list, which I will now proceed to do beforesending this message off. [Done] Words have consequences. So do flames. --Tim May