At 5:12 PM 9/29/95, Peter Trei wrote:

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Subject: European Governments Agree to Ban Strong Crypto

The biggest problem I have with this is that this is the third, fourth, or fifth posting of Ross Anderson's piece to this list [...]

I urge people to read what's on the list and not repost things which have already appeared. If they don't have time to read all of the messages on the list, which is understandable, then they need to be even more careful in posting things.

Reading the list does not neccesarily help - I experience a several hour lag between when I post something, and when it comes back from the list server. Thus, even if I'm all caught up on my reading the list (as I was when I posted that article), articles may be 'in the pipe' which duplicate ones I'm thinking of posting. For those curious about the latency, I'm posting this at 12:08, on the US east coast. How long did it take to reach you?

Not to pick on Peter Trei, as this happens all the time, whenever a hot issue appears.

Short of implementing some content-sensitive form of CSMA/CD, I don't see what we can do (but lowering the list latency would help a lot).

--Tim May

Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei@process.com