At 8:41 PM -0800 4/30/97, Adam Back wrote:
[btw what do people think of the practice of putting To: cypherpunks, and Bcc: coderpunks@toad, cryptography@c2 as I have done here? I do this for stuff when I'm interested in comments of people who are on cryptography but not cypherpunks, similarly for coderpunks to avoid the non-crossposting issue with coderpunks, and avoid extra moderation work for Perry with cryptography. I know you get multiple copies if you're on all lists, how else does one reach you all? Myself I have a procmail recipie which junks multiple copies, like:
I once unintentionally forgot to delete the "cryptography@c2.net" cc: on a reply I made to what (I assumed) was a Cypherpunks message, and received a Perrygram stating that my message was off-topic and was not welcome on his list. Clearly Perry has the right to run _his_ list any way he wishes to, just as Declan has the right to run _his_ list any way he wishes to, just as Bob Hettinga has the right to run _his_ list (or lists) as he wishes, and just as Lewis McCarthy has the right to the run _his_ "Coderpunks" list as he wishes, and so on. However, I think these "personal" lists are not to my taste, I don't want Perry or Declan or Bob or Lewis deciding whether my articles match their interests at the time I submit an article. I routinely delete all of the cc:s to other lists, figuring if people want to read my stuff they can damn well subscribe to the Real Thing, the Cypherpunks list. No censorship (modulo the John and Sandy Show in Jan-Feb), and no control freaks trying to limit discussion to the things that happen to interest them that week. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."