On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:04:44AM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
The cypherpunks list degenerated a long time ago to the point where I have no idea why more than 500 people are still receiving it every day.
As part of cleaning up the email system on toad.com, I plan to shut down the cypherpunks-unedited list, which receives all the traffic sent to cypherpunks@toad.com, within the next week or two.
I suggest that anyone who wants to talk or listen about encryption should send mail to:
cryptography-request@wasabisystems.com
Cryptography is a moderated list that is fairly tightly focused on cryptography. It's a good list. However if you are interested in the political and soceital implications of cryptography (also traditional cypherpunks topics) then cryptography is not the right list. The cypherpunks list has moved to a distributed list run from a number of sites. Each site has a different policy-- some are wide open like cypherpunks-unedited@toad, some moderated, and some are unmoderated but filter out spam. The web page http://www.lne.com/cpunk/ explains the Cypherpunks distributed mailing list in more detail and lists each node their policies and subscription info. Eric