Rule 2: Don't forward articles from other forums to cypherpunks. We can find it ourselves the same place you did
This is not universally true. Everyone doesn't have access to a functional News server or even to the Web, and some interesting stuff could come from closed commercial sites etc. But even if everyone had global access, I think there is a place for forwarded articles on the CP list. It's a convenient way to keep up with the happenings to passively watch on-topic items drop into one's mailbox or to be able to request longer pieces with very few keystrokes, jya-style. The most lazy of us will hardly even light up our browsers for a maybe-interesting URL. The problem is off-topic or quasi-on-topic forwards, including EPIC/EFF kind of announcements. And all forwards would benefit from a personal comment by the forwarder (at the beginning of the mail, NOT after the 10 screens document) where he explains what is interesting cp-wise. Asgaard