Why do people keep sending "attachments"? This was just a text article, and not an application (program), so why was it included as an "attachment"? At 8:27 PM 9/17/95, Michael Shields wrote:
Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:cypherpunks as a newsgroup (????/----) (00005C4E)
The message was, as Microsoft Word 6.0 saw it: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The general opinion seems to be that the netnews format is very convenient, though we should keep the list; but that entering Usenet or Altnet would lower the S/N. Why not, then, start a new hierarchy? Why not gate cypherpunks not to alt.cypherpunks or comp.security.cypherpunks, but to crypto.cypherpunks? We could feed it freely between us and set up NNTP servers which are open for just crypto.*. c.c would be the only crypto.* group for now, but it would also be easy to add more -- say, for the "respectable" splinter group, or for protocol WGs. We'd get the convenience of netnews without the high profile. I'm willing to run the gateway on news.tembel.org and feed other sites, if people think crypto.cypherpunks is a good idea. Opinions? - -- Shields. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMFyEm+yjYMb1RsVfAQF1YQQAneg8c6yUKJUUybqepl52yqyS53OGrpLq YfdrMYaIxMWdWKNpMAAus/g8WjWMwYrrB4p+8/WLMm4HsUEHO2ouNzbraiyMRwaB NEhf0v/91h9jGniZIX5uQyqSdM/VC5YupWV0cITqKte9iLZR77C5hVqXBiLhRcwG YL8GwDP5tYw= =roIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."