Too few cypherpunks nodes.
Ladies and Gentlemen, As the time goes on and I see what is happening inside and outside our list, I am getting increasingly concerned about the small number of hosts in the cypherpunks network. Practically, most of the people use only two nodes, Kent's and mine, and thanks to Jim, we have three operating ones. I do not believe that it is good enough. If anyone has any creative idea of how to get a couple more reliable nodes, please share it. igor
Igor Chudov <ichudov@algebra.com> writes:
As the time goes on and I see what is happening inside and outside our list, I am getting increasingly concerned about the small number of hosts in the cypherpunks network.
Practically, most of the people use only two nodes, Kent's and mine, and thanks to Jim, we have three operating ones. I do not believe that it is good enough.
Does anyone know how many people are using Jim's cypherpunks@ssz.com? If you send `who cypherpunks' to it you get back an empty mail. But he has stated that he does this on purpose to protect the privacy of his subscribers... It would still be nice to know how _many_ are on ssz.com as opposed to _who_ is on ssz.com, just to know approx. the architecture of the lists for such purposes. Also I might point out that the afforded privacy is mostly illusionary because any TLA who cared could observe the mail fanning out from ssz.com with Sender: cypherpunks-owner@ssz.com and reconstruct the list in short order. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199705240549.AAA11795@manifold.algebra.com>, on 05/23/97 at 11:49 PM, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) said:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As the time goes on and I see what is happening inside and outside our list, I am getting increasingly concerned about the small number of hosts in the cypherpunks network.
Practically, most of the people use only two nodes, Kent's and mine, and thanks to Jim, we have three operating ones. I do not believe that it is good enough.
If anyone has any creative idea of how to get a couple more reliable nodes, please share it.
I should have a new node up shorly. This will be a cypherpunks-digest node. I plan on taking input from the 3 current nodes, remove any duplicates and then send out 1 or 2 digest messages a day (depending on volume). I will be working this weekend on the digest code, hopfully I can have things up and running sometime next week depending on how much time "real" work takes up. Once I have the digest list set-up I can start posting some statistics on the "quality of service" on the various lists. I do not plan on filtering any traffic with the exception of "denial of service" attacks (100 ascii art messages, ...). I may not have to even do this if the other lists already take care of this. As soon as I have more info I will post it to the list. PS: What does everyone think of CC: alt.cypherpunks with the digest? Thanks, - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: He who laughs last uses OS/2. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM4dCe49Co1n+aLhhAQHpPwQAwnwWWNlGh8MnERO9kkgJsF+CKuBwKh6q 75oeD0/x6MaYIE1jePrAQvqkNcvzVCMbvdSkBCH1rFSLhoGECsh1jXgvWmPieRfB 7sedYwX1UTVOPz/YLvHh0BcCuevbq1V5vZD/PzhIwxskT1CNLfYkcoM/lph/HpAZ Aaa3bo/09+k= =9HJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
digest is a standard function of majordomo igor William H. Geiger III wrote:
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In <199705240549.AAA11795@manifold.algebra.com>, on 05/23/97 at 11:49 PM, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) said:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As the time goes on and I see what is happening inside and outside our list, I am getting increasingly concerned about the small number of hosts in the cypherpunks network.
Practically, most of the people use only two nodes, Kent's and mine, and thanks to Jim, we have three operating ones. I do not believe that it is good enough.
If anyone has any creative idea of how to get a couple more reliable nodes, please share it.
I should have a new node up shorly.
This will be a cypherpunks-digest node.
I plan on taking input from the 3 current nodes, remove any duplicates and then send out 1 or 2 digest messages a day (depending on volume).
I will be working this weekend on the digest code, hopfully I can have things up and running sometime next week depending on how much time "real" work takes up.
Once I have the digest list set-up I can start posting some statistics on the "quality of service" on the various lists.
I do not plan on filtering any traffic with the exception of "denial of service" attacks (100 ascii art messages, ...). I may not have to even do this if the other lists already take care of this.
As soon as I have more info I will post it to the list.
PS: What does everyone think of CC: alt.cypherpunks with the digest?
Thanks,
- -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0
Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. - -----------------------------------------------------------
Tag-O-Matic: He who laughs last uses OS/2.
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