At 06:50 PM 5/13/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Instead, imagine this "service": - a distribution point (= list) which subscribes to all of the various lists (cyberpass, algebra, ssz, etc.) - it sends out to subscribers the first instance of any message it receives - duplicates (see discussion below) would not be sent - it would, ideally, be on a robust machine
As a filtering service, it would be great, though most of the duplicates I see are articles posted on one or more of (cypherpunks, coderpunks, cryptography), and I'd see a few more dups if I read alt.cypherpunks regularly. On the other hand, one of the reasons we have multiple list servers is to reduce the risk of a single cypherpunks list site dying again (as well as just the effect of several people volunteering at once.) A filter site is a single point of failure, though it's a less serious failure if there are still multiple lists feeding it. If the filter can set the headers appropriately so that the author and originating-list information still works, then it matters even less if it goes down. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)