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.
time and thought to. Might I suggest that a newsgroup would be a way to go? There are already a number of security, privacy, and crypto related groups, but they tend to have their own pattern of flow, you know penet.fi problems on alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.privacy (dunno not read much), alt.security.pgp pgp usage, David Sterlight fueled discussions, some ITAR stuff, talk.politics.crypto, crypto politics, comp.org.eff.talk, there must be a few others. ... Reckon cypherpunks as a group has enough readers to hmm, push through a vote for group creation, if the majority thought it was a useful exercise. A group soley for what? cypherpunks technology, social
No vote is needed to create an alt.group: something like 'alt.security.cypherpunks' or 'alt.privacy.cypherpunks'. Just post a proposal to alt.config, post many articles seconding the proposal, let it be discussed for a week, then issue a newgroup. To create a newsgroup in the 'big 8' (comp., sci., etc) one needs to deal with unpleasant control freaks like group-advice, news.groups, and David Lawrence. It takes up to 6 months. On the other hand, many sites that have Usenet have comp.* but not alt.*. Their users would still have to use the mailing lists or find another site. To create something like comp.security.cypherpunks (I think this would be the most appropriate place, since there's already c.s.announce, c.s.misc, and c.s.firewalls), talk to the group-advice cabal. --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps