alt.cypherpunks (was: Re: My Departure, Moderation, and "Ownership of the List")

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"Adam" == Adam Back writes:

Adam> Perhaps it is time to reconsider the benefits of Adam> alt.cypherpunks. (As an aside, it is ironic that John Gilmore Adam> was the guy who started the alt.* USENET hierarchy, specifically Adam> to facilitate freedom of speech). This would have another benefit. More sophisticated tools exist for filtering usenet than for filtering email in a voluntarily cooperative way. For example, I use a fairly extensive .procmailrc file to filter my email, and blow away stuff that's either spam or a post from someone I consider a blathering idiot. There are some other folks on the list who likely do the same thing, and there are some whose .procmailrc files I'd like to see, and likely include in my own. But there's no easy way to do that. With alt.cypherpunks, anyone who wishes to "help kill noise" could simply issue a NoCeM report, and those of us with reasonable newsreaders would be able to "listen" to the reports from people with whom we want to cooperate. And we can ignore the rest. The beauty of this scheme is that the control of the list is in the hands of the individual reader, without requiring huge amounts of redundant effort. It's also occurred to me that there can be folks who NoCeM the NoCeM reports :-) - -- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Have you encrypted your data today? iQEVAwUBMvtAVX6R34u/f3zNAQEFBQf9F6K+47WukspV3BU3E5+/hR9ARVc0cGt5 1zTwkipAqGOZeXMm4//vPYh/q9DyKzV2VLLr/sY7cRiBCypv2BP8y8e8dqkK0eYq LGaLpmF5IGomJA2iCLYmgQAWJrdhKIBxwyuX0hyDwjTvOF/S4BSV2x1b0dR3q1RB goV/3vqvxpEan/iy53M+rMAaYffb4s+TRslIJY5ct1ddx+5aeQGOAmgnGWToK1Ja 5ZLYUwkLQ1By14FxC4451uJDHxARNZcKVuu/dcfH+oWYQFrTo9CPi+7Ykpyyxz8X 0v68Gj57xEdnVgz6XshMY3NHOhiIcCuQQSJ1LjkLSfuV9ZzXuiMKQw== =2ckb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----