A month or so back, there was a brief discussion talking about the production of a cypherpunks net.book. Out of that discussion I talked about the fact that I (would) have a workstation available to provide a platform for various mailing lists if they were needed.
On of the suggestions that was made by Eric was that it might be a 'good thing'{tm} to creat some regional cypherpunk lists to facilitate the planning of physical meetings, to make announcements about speakers, or whatever.
In any case, I have the computer up and running, and am now in a position to create whatever cypherpunk mailing lists might be wanted or needed. So, does anyone have anything they'd want a mailing list for?
____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@vorlon.mankato.msus.edu
I know of, and am supposedly subscribed to, several such sub-lists: -meeting plans, or somesuch, devoted to planning regional meetings -DC-Nets (Austin...and I may also be on the "Austin-Cyperpunks" list, or at least I recall sending in my subscribe notice a year or so ago) -Hardware Punks (for those interested in RNGs, phones, boxes, etc.) -LA meetings (Jay Prime Positive) -DC area meetings (I think this is one I got on, but maybe not) -Lib Tech or Tech Lib (Nick Szabo) (Sorry for not having the precise names...the lists are mostly so dormant that their names are a blur. Everytime a new mailing sublist was announced, I got on it.) All of these specialized mailing lists have nil traffic, for whatever reasons. Draw your own conclusions. The "Cypherpunks Book" is another matter, one we've discussed. Having a "workstation" available is absolutely the least important thing involved. Vincent Cate and others are already doing a fine job of making URLs available, and the writing of book-length stuff is not something easily done. I know, because I'm still trying to finish a book-length document filled with fine-granularity stuff (a different task than linking some number of essays and articles together with URLs for Mosaic/Lynx browsers to access). (About 300K of text.) I hope these blunt remarks do not cause more cries that I am being a wet blanket. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."