In article <PysiBD7w165w@bwalk.dm.com>, Dr. Dimitri Vulis <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> wrote:
aba@dcs.exeter.ac.uk writes:
One thing I have been thinking would be nice would be a USENET newsgroup, as mailing lists are a step away from easy access which some people never make.
This sounds like a very good idea to me, since I find the flood of e-mail from CP, much of it non-crypto-related, to be annoying. If this traffic were in a newsgroup, it would travel compressed over my phone line, and I might use a killfile on sstuff like the CO$ thread.
Anything posted to the main cypherpunks mailing list and the spun-off mailing lists (steganogrpahy, remailers, nym servers, etc) could be posted to the newsgroup by maiking one of the mail2news gateways a subscriber.
That was my thinking exactly. That's why I wrote just such a mail2news gateway to a local newsgroup, csc.lists.cypherpunks (moderated, with cypherpunks@toad.com as the moderator), as you can probably see in the header. This way, trn groups all articles with the same subject together, and correctly threads articles that have References: or In-Reply-To: headers. As for the location, I'd agree with comp.security.cypherpunks. Watch out, though; the list/group will probably get a much higher readership as a newsgroup. Although this is good for the "make the public aware" goal, remember that, as far as I can tell, September 1992 never ended. I've been very impressed with the signal/noise ratio on this list. In fact, people often put [NOISE] in the subject line to flag trivial content. This ratio will certainly go down if we go to a newsgroup. One of the main benefits of Usenet is that anyone can _post_. One of the main detriments is that _anyone_ can post. - Ian "that would have been much more elegant in Latin"