I think that Mosaic pages are the way to go these days. These are not hard to write and they are very nice to use. For some interesting examples of what can be done, check out some of the existing cypherpunk mosaic pages: ftp://soda.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/Home.html ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/cpunk/README.html http://www.quadralay.com/www/Crypt/Crypt.html http://digicash.support.nl ftp://furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/security/README.html http://pmip.maricopa.edu/crypt/cypherpunks I think it would be good to have a "cypherpunks-essay" mailing list that was not moderated but people only sent essays that they thought were good enough to be archived. For starters, people can just CC: mail to "vac+cypheressay" and it will get dropped into a separate file in: ftp://furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/security/cypheressay My "vac+cypheressay" was done with one line in my .maildelivery and a short shell script I call "save-numbered". Both are below (note the A.I. methods used to moderate mail). Having a "cypherpunks-essay" mailing list on the same machine as "cypherpunks" could be nice for folks who want a lower volume group. Could have mail to it also go to cypherpunks, and Reply-To: also go to cypherpunks. -- Vince Addr vac+cypheressay pipe R /usr/vac/bin/save-numbered /usr/anon/security/cypheressay #!/bin/csh -f # # This is not totally safe as it is not atomic. If two messages # came at the same time there is a chance one would get lost. # For a low volume list this will not be a problem. cd $1 umask 022 set current = `cat num` @ next = $current + 1 echo $next > num cat >> $next # Moderator says no reply messages grep "Re:" $next if ($status == 0) then /bin/rm $next endif