Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
I strongly support this idea, so I'll mention a further advantage: kill files! No more wading through boring message about anonymous remailers, digital cash an so on (or RSA weaknesses, or crypto-legality or whatever your personal bug happens to be).
Well, my mailer program (Eudora) has better "kill file" capabilities than my newsreader program (tin), so converting the mailing list into a newsgroup would be a lose for me. Not that what's convenient for me is what we have to use, just that _your_ particular situation is not universal. My point is this: there are many sound reasons to keep a group such as ours a mailing list and not open it to every freshman in college who can grep for "punk" and stumble across us, or for every Sternlight-type bozo who delights in creating noise and rancor in groups. As others have mentioned, tools exist to locally feed mailing list traffic into pseuodo-newsgroups, which can then be treated as the newsgroup format some folks desire. We debate this issue every couple of months. Give it up. Or start your own newsgroup. Or use one of the existing newsgroups. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.