Tim May wrote:
Declan decided that rebroadcasting articles out of Nym would not be allowed, but he said nothing about not mentioning its existence. (Nor would I have agreed to be on a list whose very existence I could not disclose.) Anyway, tonight when I mentioned its existence as I was posting an article here that I wrote for the Nym list, I half-expected some comments from Dimitri.
But I didn't expect someone to post the subscription instructions (anonymously, of course). Hint: it wasn't I.
Anyway, I suppose that by mid-morning tomorrow Declan is going to have to decide how to deal with subscriptions by Vulis, Human Gus-Peter, Toto, and all the others.
The Nym list appears to be closed. (The web page says so -- so I didn't try.) This state of affairs may even be my fault. The history, for those who care, is appended. It's a shame -- if David Brin really is posting there as one of Tim's recent messages suggested I'd be very interested in seeing his posts. (Thanks, Tim, for reposting yours here.) I still don't think it makes much sense to have a conversation about the use of nyms and then try to protect the posters' words from public view. If posters are concerned about public scrutiny, why not use a nym? Not to mention the fact that one would have to keep the list closed to have a prayer of enforcing the no-repost rule. --Daniel Boone History: Robert Hettinga was briefly forwarding "nym" posts to e$pam, where I saw them. Declan publically requested that posts not be forwarded. I sent Robert a message asking if he was going to comply -- and expressed (to Robert) my lack of respect for a no-forwarding policy. Robert (that notorious cross-pollinizer that he is) forwarded my message to Declan, which was unfortunate -- as Declan no doubt considered my message insulting. (Addressed to Declan, it would have been.) I got a very chilly "response" from Declan about how he had no duty to entertain me with his list traffic. I took the opportunity to ask him how his no-repost rule would fare when someone using a nym started reposting the traffic publicly. He responded with "the list is now closed" or words to that effect. I realized too late he may have thought _I_ was threating to do the evil reposting deed.