Daniel Farnworth wrote:
Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail???
It's pretty light actually. Back in 1996/7 you could have seen thousands of spem by now. Your problem is toad.com - there is no one central cypherpunks list, it is in effect a number of lists that cross-post to each other. They impose various degrees of editorial control, or not. (Almost) all of them are open to postings from anyone - one of the points of the list is to be a place where anonymous or unpopular postings are permitted. The list working out of toad.com has some known problems and it is probably not a good idea to be using it. Jim Choate will probably be along in a minute to tell you about his web pages at http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html which would also fill you in on some background and point you at some of the other mailing lists. There has been a lot of good said about the cypherpunks@lne.com list, which I haven't tried myself yet so can't comment on in detail. I think I'm using majordomo@sirius.infonex.com at the moment, it's hard to keep track. (Like a lot of people here I tend to join & unjoin using different addresses - also I post from an address different from the one I read it on)
...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
ROFL :-) Do I really want to be around when the Doom generation grow up? Ken Brown