Re: Noise and the Nature of Mailing Lists

tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:

And remember, it's a whole lot easier using filters and reading tools to reduce the volume of messages on an active group than it is to get an inactive group up to critical mass!

Yes, definitely! I'm sending this note to remind people that they can also read Cypherpunks via NNTP, at nntp://nntp.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks/ There are several programs that can read newsgroups on other NNTP servers. I use Emacs Gnus, which has an excellent set of filtering tools. Cypherpunks would be a lot harder to read without it. It'd be easier to read if everyone preserved the References: headers, btw. (thanks, hks.net!)