At 09:49 PM 2/24/96 GMT, attila wrote:

** Reply to note from Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> 02/13/96 1:29pm -0500

[snip] = The thing that makes Cypherpunks worthwhile is that its a place where = you could, once, get news updates about GAK, information on the latest = research into cryptography, organize mass key crackings, discuss APIs, = talk a bit about the politics of cryptography, etc. = sounds like we're having the sme problems as "democracy" --it soon becomes irrelevant! example:

I was out of town for 6 days: I returned to find 1056 messages in the sorted mailbox! yes: 1056 messages which it took close to an hour to delete almost 800 of them as irrelevant. some you can discard automatically depending on the author, some by content, etc. but I agree: it is clutter.

I spend most of my time here as a lurker but I must chime in now. :) I filter to an unread area and then try to read once per week. I know that I trim off good articles while trying to trim the fat off. If you can't exercise restraint, how about putting "junk" as the first word in your subject. ... __o .. -\<, Chris.Claborne@SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.Com ...(*)/(*). CI$: 76340.2422 http://bordeaux.sandiegoca.attgis.com/ PGP Pub Key fingerprint = 7E BF 38 3F 24 A7 D1 B0 54 44 96 AA 10 D0 5D 51 Avail on Pub Key server. PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! Dreams. They are just a "screen saver" for the brain.