I was thinking about Alan's proposal for a moderated real-world-crypto list (which sounds good, by the way!), and it brought up my main problem with cypherpunks, which is sheer volume, volume, volume! It's not a "noise" problem -- since the end of the LD foolishness the greatest part of what has been posted here has been intelligent, thoughtful stuff. But since c'punks has grown to the size of a newsgroup in volume, simply getting through it is *difficult*. My proposal is pretty simple: splitting the list into cypherpunks-tech and cypherpunks-policy. (Cypherpunks-announce would be left alone of course.) I think a large number of readers would want to be on both lists, but a large number (like myself) would *not*, and if nothing else, it would cut down the mailer load on toad. In short, technical crypto articles, reviews of papers, steganography stuff, PGP-specific stuff, all source code, etc., would go to the cypherpunks-tech list; while policy articles, Clipper stuff, political discussions, anarcholibertarian/extropian material, social implications of digital cash, etc., would go to the cypherpunks-policy list. I *know* there are people out there who would rather that the political stuff not get in the way of their technical discussions, and then there are people like me who are more focused on the policy issues (and regardless of technical background, are never going to be code-level crypto hacks). Comments? -- Michael C. Berch mcb@net.bio.net / mcb@postmodern.com