From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Dec 13 13:04 PST 1994 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 11:46:14 -0800 From: srikar@netcom.com (Shrieks) Message-Id: <199412131946.LAA26053@netcom20.netcom.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: calling all cpunks on netcom Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Hi all,
Just floating a trial balloon. Are you tired of the high traffic on the cypherpunks list and having to wade through a ton of mail every day? Any of you folks approaching your 5M limit from archiving too many messages? Well, I am and I don't really want to start paying for the extra memory.
ever tried to get netcom to do anything for you?
I was wondering if it might be worth petitioning the netcom sysadmins to start up a local newsgroup (eg. netcom.cpunks) that serves as an archive for the mailing list. That way one gets to use the abilities of <insert favourite threaded news browser here> to keep threads together and so forth. I'm sure there are enough netcom subscribers to warrant this.
I'm working on a system that indexes,marks up, and serves up html versions of E-Mail lists. It's still very alpha stuff. cypherpunks is in the tryal part of system I call the Biblotech. All URL's that come through the system are also indexed... It's not tiny stuff Sybase, Verity search engine etc are all involved. Would anyone be against me doing such a thing? alowing anyone to view the c-punks list via html etc... -Rick