Should there be an "alt.cypherpunks" type of newsgroup instead of this mailing list?
Bad idea, it would simply mean that every kook on USEnet would add alt.cypherpunks onto the crossposting line. We would have black helicopters, gun loons, Waco Wako's, Loonytarians and turkish government propaganda spamming forever. I think we should wait a while. I see USEnet going through some very dramatic changes quite soon, the infrastructure of newsgroups is now insufficient to support the cognitive complexity of discorse amongst so many people. I expect more structures discorse models such as the lightweight link semantics of Openmeeting and Wit to percolate in, NCSA already have a version of hypernews with these features. One thought to ponder on. There is no real difference in terms of resources required between a mailing list and an archive of a mailing list at a Web site. The latter does avoid a large number of unnecessary dispatches however. Phill Phill