Right. Most news organizations nowadays provide some kind of "alert" service. Wired News has one that lets readers choose to be alerted by name of author or keyword: http://www.wired.alerts.com/wired/add_alert.jsp These, to buttress your point, are better mechanisms to be alerted to relevant articles than the cpunks list is. -Declan On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:42:07AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Your definition of "useful" is different from mine. I believe lists like ours should primarily be about discussions and points of view, not a third-hand CNET or Register or Slashdot. There are many Web sources of breaking news (not that a lot of the "functional quantum computer" sorts of stories are usually breaking news...).
Personally, I like it when someone finds a news item, provides a detailed URL, even quotes (in ASCII, not MIME!) a paragraph or two, and then comments on it and connects it to Cypherpunks issues.
Merely dumping out "general science" items, with general URLs, is just plain abusing the list.
--Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns