Patrick May wrote:
Before doing this, I'd need the answers to a few questions:
- Is there still any interest in a cypherpunks mailing list?
yes
- Is alt.cypherpunks a better alternative?
it is not an alternative, it is a complement. i think that alt.cypherpunks will be a failure because all of the troubles of alt.* hierarchy.
- Majordomo can be configured to require confirmation of subscription requests, thus avoiding some attacks. Is there any simple way to protect against mailloops? Directly accessing the listname-outgoing alias?
Add X-Loop: header and use procmail to protect against messages FROM_DAEMON and FROM_MAILER.
- Is a pentium up to the task of running a list of this size and volume?
yes, it is the other stuff that's the problem -- memory, connection speed, etc. - Igor.