Tim May wrote:
At 4:34 PM -0800 5/13/97, Jim Choate wrote:
* Is it possible for the interlinked lists to send out announcements of list problems to subscriber of all such lists? (Each list owner could do a periodic "who cypherpunks" of the other lists, then use this list to send a message if a problem comes up. More sophisticated cross-processing could eliminate duplicates, etc.)
Sounds like time to start another list subscribed to the existing nodes and offer such services to the subscribers at the operators whim.
I oppose any action which would force the list to become more 'cooperative' in the sense that each node operator would be forced (sorta anti-cpunks I believe) to comply with some set of scripts and such they didn't develop in
I wasn't advocating either:
a) any "forcing" of anything
b) any compliance with scripts, cooperation, etc.
Instead, imagine this "service":
- a distribution point (= list) which subscribes to all of the various lists (cyberpass, algebra, ssz, etc.)
- it sends out to subscribers the first instance of any message it receives
- duplicates (see discussion below) would not be sent
- it would, ideally, be on a robust machine
The "duplicates" issue has been discussed by others. Even if message IDs are not enough to find duplicates--someone reported that the same message from algebra and cyberpass have different IDs--I would think that using the sender, message title, and date of origin ought to be more than enough to spot duplicates.
Tim, what you are proposing is no different from any other cypherpunks node. So if you suggest to add more nodes, I am all for it. What you describe above is precisely what algebra, cyberpass, and ssz.com do now. It is not a "just another service" as you suggest below, it is exactly the same service, but on a new node. Actually, I think that it is important to add one more node to the network: ssz.com has mail delivery problems and the two more or less reliable nodes are cyberpass and algebra. I do not see it as *sufficiently* robust, since the probability of both of them being down is on the order of 0.5%.
No, this is just another filtering service, one designed to collect messages from as many inputs as possible and send them out, without duplicates.
"Get a life." What an original insult.
Reminds me why you usually reside in my filter file, Jim. Back in it you go.
Tim, if you read what goes into your filter file, putting anyone there does not mean that you ignore them. - Igor.