At 07:14 PM 6/20/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

At 5:19 PM 6/20/96, RogErick@aol.com wrote:

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I agree with you, Tonie, as usual. I struggled with this, for years, until I had a dream. I was on a battlefield, pinned down by enemy fire, and I was out of ammunition. ....

Hey, folks, I'm a libertarian, and even voted for John Hospers in 1972. But the Cypherpunks mailing list has over 1200 subscribers, and cross-copying to it for these debates is not a good idea. I presume the same is true about cross-copying Cypherpunks stuff onto "nwlibertarians@teleport.co," but I can't say for sure.

What I know is that wide cross-posting (or cross-copying) is the bane of lists these days. There are so many lists, so much overlap, that the temptation is great to cc: any conceivably-related list.

Hey, no one speaks for Cypherpunks, least of all me, but I think cross-copying between libertarian, or digital commerce, or Wobbly, or International Socialist Women of Color, or Unabomber Brigade mailing lists to the Cypherpunks list is inappropriate.

The subject was the use of digital cash for accepting Federal matching funds. I cross-posted ONE message. It was appropriately on-topic in both areas. Okay? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com