On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:36:12PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
No, we don't need a "cpunx-news" list. This is what Google and the ability to see hundreds of various lists and sites is for.
This is a bogus statement. As long as I can't use a single keyword to make Google's news alerts topical, and _full text_ a search engine is rather useless.
"News" lists tend strongly to be just dumping grounds for crap from other lists.
The point is that you don't have to subscribe to 20-odd email lists, which have about 5% relevance each. Life's too short for that. People are the best filters, and with a handful of sustained contributors the list becomes a valuable resource.
I failed the entrance exam for "Interesting People," which is fine, for obvious reasons.
Case in point: most of IP list traffic is garbage from a cypherpunk point of view. Let one list subscriber read it, and filter relevant bits to the newsticker. If it's a steaming pile of crap for Tim May it doesn't mean it's useless for everybody else. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]