On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:55:34 -0800 (PST) From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> Reply-To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> Cc: ichudov@algebra.com, dave@kachina.jetcafe.org, freedom-knights@jetcafe.org, cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
Dale Thorn allegedly said:
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If I understood the last several hundred messages correctly, they have tried to make the point that the cypherpunks mailing list (unedited) was more ideal than a newsgroup. If this is what Dave is offering, I'm surprised if more people don't jump on it. Then again, they took their good ol' time jumping onto cypherpunks-unedited.
Dave is offering a single mailing list, which, while I am sure Dave is a great person, still represents a single point of control and a single point of failure. A distributed mailing list has a potential for being much more robust, and for supporting a wide range of viewpoints. Furthermore a distributed mailing list is an interesting minor technical problem, and a good solution could have wide applicability.
So I think that people would like to get the distributed list going...
What is it going to do then, all run on the same majordomo?
-- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: 5A 16 DA 04 31 33 40 1E 87 DA 29 02 97 A3 46 2F
Just make sure it all works on Linux. I think a -digest- would be in order, and if everybody uses the same program, you can make sure there are no duplicates. I will put up the address for Vulis to run. Now the cypherpunks all support the net.scum web-page, right?