-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In <Pine.HPP.3.91.961129170630.7957A-100000@cor.sos.sll.se>, on 11/29/96 at 05:55 PM, Asgaard <asgaard@Cor.sos.sll.se> said: ::> Rule 2: Don't forward articles from other forums to ::> cypherpunks. We can find it ourselves the same place you did ::This is not universally true. Everyone doesn't have access to a ::functional News server or even to the Web, and some interesting stuff ::could come from closed commercial sites etc. :: for instance, I read a lot of liberal hogwash lists [know thine enemy]. there are lists after lists about lists. sorting out the precisely cut and trimmed info is hard --and there is not time to read a man who is being paid by the word! good summaries with pointers is essential. :: [snip] ...to be able to request longer pieces with very few keystrokes, ::jya-style. :: john provides an extremely valuable service by covering a broad spectrum of sources. since I read others, I am considering using the auto-respond features of procmail to do the same. however, I sure wont cover as much ground as john does! :: The most lazy of us will hardly even light up our browsers ::for a maybe-interesting URL. :: unfortunately, that is too true --even when your mail browser will pass the URL to the browser which is often in the background anyway. ::The problem is off-topic or quasi-on-topic forwards, including EPIC/EFF ::kind of announcements. :: hard to discern sometimes ::And all forwards would benefit from a personal ::comment by the forwarder (at the beginning of the mail, NOT after the 10 ::screens document) where he explains what is interesting cp-wise. ABSOLUTELY! always put your comments and the "pointer" out front --even if you are planning interline comments. - -- without arms they do not resist; without communication they know not what to resist. -attila -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: Encrypted with 2.6.3i. Requires 2.6 or later. iQCVAwUBMp9DRb04kQrCC2kFAQH7FAP/U0Xrs8/w61tudGrDmj/XpoLFXCsWdq0l xab+rBby242AVJN0BxULUTVH+F4hblIcJGy52gWTKdwcKHS9lShmhgTFbRpepO+L GLdX+LV6fiBr4SoyD+1+pQBdzmYGyjmXiG3Xp8JoB9q2OBTdJbgoLsCHB6dX97Pe KR3Z7XsowSw= =WUSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----