On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Skippy <qut@netcom.com> shared with the group:

Apologies, but rich has deleted me from his mailboxes, and for a few days now,

This isn't true. I don't believe in killfiles. Being on my twit list simply means that you're entitled to a brief acknowledgement of every message you send me. Skippy was added after he sent me the 3MB results from the rec.music.white-power vote as a rather limp mailbombing attempt (free clue: it takes a lot more than that to make a dent in our bandwidth or disk space); see http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/potw2/rec.music.white-powder for that email.

somebody has placed a global cancel bot on me. I'm gonna have plenty of fun figuring this out. Kwow any good sniffers?

The one that used to be running on darth.stanford.edu was pretty good. Since February 22nd, I've working on the assumption that everything I do unencrypted is public. I would revoke my PGP key, but I never used it much for receiving mail anyway, and I'm not sure that it was found.

I agree the list should be public usenet: A mail gate-way to a usenet group that ALSO permits unmoderated posts. This would be a nice way to combine a strict moderated mail-list, with a standard netnews group.

Gee, what a great idea! Why hasn't anyone thought of that? hks.net, for example. Unfortunately, there are too many copyright terrorists here. There's a tradeoff between freedom and visibility. As astute readers are aware, hks.net had to take down the archives after WSJ made a threat that was a little too credible. -rich