Igor Chudov @ home wrote:

Again, thanks to John Gilmore for running this list for years. His job required a lot of dedication and effort and I am thankful to him for what he did for it. cypherpunks@toad.com enhanced my understanding of reality immensely.

I certainly hope that the lack of posts expressing gratitude to John Gilmore for his maintenance of the CypherPunks list on toad.com for all these years is merely because those who have benefitted from his efforts are expressing their thanks via private email to him. Certainly, as Igor has indicated, he did not just sit on his butt playing with Little Peter while 'the machine' ran itself and provided the CypherPunks with a home for both rational discourse and mad ramblings. There are quite a few people, ranging from long-term members to passers-by who have had their horizons broadened by the list, and I would hope that they are appreciative of the fact that the mechanics of bits and bytes underlying the distribution of our grand soliloquys came at the expense of a considerable portion of his own time and energy. I know that I am. Toto