Dear all members of p2p-hackers: Speaking as the moderator of p2p-hackers mailing list, I don't consider this to be too "off-topic". I don't think I'll have to ask anyone to quiet down just because they are going on about economics. Honestly, I have always kind of thought that p2p theory and practice was incomplete without the addition of a lot of economics, so I actually kind of regard economics as pretty much right on topic for this list! Now, even if I'm not going to ask you to pipe down, you might still decide to limit your posting on the topic because you suspect that a lot of the readers are bored or annoyed by it, or because you're just expressing your opinion about politics and nobody is really going to learn anything new or change their minds from reading what you've said. (They're just going to express *their* opinion about politics, thus leaving both of you no wiser and wasting twice as much of everyone else's time scrolling through it.) If you, oh Members of this List, really hate to see such conversation and feel that it is detracting from your opportunity to have a better conversation on a different topic, then please post publicly or email me privately and say so. Maybe if there's an upwelling of strong difference of opinion on that then I could create another list called "p2p-econ" or something. My guess is that there won't be enough people who complain vociferously enough to motivate me to make a new list for this. Regards, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Founder, CEO, and Customer Support Rep https://LeastAuthority.com _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE