Alt.cypherpunks will be where I do most of my posting
On Jan 2, 2004, at 1:03 PM, someone wrote:
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 13:18, Tim May wrote:
Second of the items lne.com never sent to the list (that I have seen, 9-10 hours later).
I saw both articles, both the originals and the reposts, on the LNE feed. I didn't, however, get the original of either on the pro-ns feed, but I saw the reposts on pro-ns.
I subscribed to pro-ns after Eric M's announcement, but it seems to miss a lot of articles that I get from LNE. Still searching for a reliable feed which cuts out the Australian Jackass and other noise posts.
Several operators of Cypherpunks nodes have gotten tired of the topic or the running of nodes and have moved on to other things. Even those still running nodes rarely have anything to post themselves. Those remaining on the remaining nodes, or at least the ones posting, are mainly eurotrash lefties and American collectivists who just don't get it. As none of the alternatives to lne.com are what I'm looking for in a node, I expect to do most of my future posting to alt.cypherpunks. This newsgroup has been in existence for a bunch of years and periodically gets interesting threads. A few sock puppets have been spamming it, but filters are readily available to screen out the crud. The advantage of a newsgroup is that all the distribution and propagation issues are handled more or less automagically, The disadvantages are well-known, but are not much worse than with some of today's nodes (subject to long delays, dropped articles, etc.). Another advantage is that the address will be more or less known to anyone, at all times. Also, no "friendly chats" by Feebs with the operators of a site. And virtually no chance of shutting down a newsgroup. --Tim May
Okay... At a time like this, I might as well trot out the Tim May Google-Stalk URL so everyone can get the full treatment...: <http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_uauthors=Tim%20May&lr=lang_en&num=100&hl=en> (timcmayatgotdotnet doesn't work because it misses the earlier address, but a "Tim May" in the author field does enough...) Thanks for all the fish. Thanks, Eric! Cheers, RAH (Who's not sure he wants to subscribe to, much less run a cypherpunk node either) -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
On Jan 2, 2004, at 2:00 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Okay... At a time like this, I might as well trot out the Tim May Google-Stalk URL so everyone can get the full treatment...:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&as_uauthors=Tim%20May&lr=lang_en&num=100&hl=en>
(timcmayatgotdotnet doesn't work because it misses the earlier address, but a "Tim May" in the author field does enough...)
Thanks for all the fish.
I saw your silly stalking, your incorrect comments about Krakatoa. Someday you may learn that content matters more than your "listen up, boys and girls" and "milk ran out my nose" sort of patter. Then you may find actual economic success, no longer dependent on your wife to support you. Consider that CPUs have gotten 10 times faster than when you started yammering about "digital bearer instruments" and general programming tools have gotten at least a couple of times better. If you can't implement what you have been yammering about with this amount of CPU power and tools, but instead think you need to raise $$$$ to hire a few programmers and have a company, you are clearly smoking herb. Haskell running on 4 GHz of processor(s) gives you vastly more power than any 10 programmers had several years ago. Get on with it, or give up. Your nattering about "e$" and "Philodex" and "Digital Bearer Instruments" is getting really, really old. --Tim May
-- On 2 Jan 2004 at 20:59, Tim May wrote:
Haskell running on 4 GHz of processor(s) gives you vastly more power than any 10 programmers had several years ago.
It is not clear to me that Haskell is useful for producing programs that are actually useful to end users. Sure you can produce a prototype in nothing flat, but it seems to me that as with complex SQL expressions, it is very easy to produce Haskell expressions that evaluate several billion times slower than they should when the program starts handling a large number of users with a large number of transactions. And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any signal in the noise. Of course I can only see the signal on this list, because over the years I have developed some heavy filtering. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YQb62yf0QPQBkz/KNVrytafzyDVHcu0QnrRZFjtk 4VZDFkJI1qFJz5kkRQ3B5fSrPDaexC02LM8G4xKMG
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 02:19, James A. Donald wrote:
And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any signal in the noise.
I don't see anything on alt.cypherpunks, except for a test message I put up a couple of days ago. Alas, my ISP, having been bought out recently, has become unresponsive. (Yah, I know there are work-arounds for getting newsgroups which are not carried by your ISP, but they are _work_-arounds, which involve work, which involves time, which I have only in short supply.)
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