Anonymous wrote:
Face it, it's a bad idea. The Cypherpunks community is not the private sandbox of Gilmour and Sandfort
Yes it is. The fact that they are able to tell others when and how they will be moderated or censored makes it so.
The list may currently be hosted on Gilmour's computer, but having Sandy decide what's right for us to read is inconsistent with Cypherpunks ideals.
So what is your point? The moderation process has little to do with rights or ideals. Now that the WWW is making the InterNet a money-making entity, rights and ideals will play a decreasingly important role in decisions regarding its use and the censorship thereof. Also, since John is becoming an increasingly important political entity in the InterNet community, I am sure that it is very important to him to be able to control the direction of his private list (and to use the age-old political device of having a 'front man' to take the 'heat' for his decisions). It is not the first time in history that fame and fortune (or even the smell of it in the wind) has led to 'rights' and 'ideals' needing a small bit of 'adjustment'. Toto