At 5:21 AM 6/21/96, jim bell wrote:
The subject was the use of digital cash for accepting Federal matching funds. I cross-posted ONE message. It was appropriately on-topic in both areas.
Okay?
No, not okay. The resulting torrent of messages from and to Tonie Nathan, and about Tonie Nathan, had no connection to anything related to the CP list. I didn't single you out as the instigator of the cross-copying, as I had no idea of who it was.... (but now that I know it was you, I can't really say I'm surprised). When messages are cross-copied, warning should be included saying that the message is going to more than one mailing list, and perhaps why this was deemed necessary. And most importantly, urging follow-up posts to carefull consider which groups are appropriate. (Many people don't even bother to edit the To: and Cc: fields, resulting in a pile-up of copied names. I try to excise out all recipients except "cypherpunks@toad.com," figuring anyone not reading the list is not worth sending a separate copy to.) --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."