Toto allegedly said:

Jeremiah A Blatz wrote:

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alt.cypherpunks has been newgroup'ed, and I belive rm'grouped. Smart, consiencous newsadmins probably did not honor the rmgroup, as alt.cypherpunks should be acceptable, but most newsadmins are too overworked to actually look at most of the crap that comes through.

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Therefore, it would be a Good Thing to continue any discussion on alt.config, and convince any cabal'ers who rmgroup it to re-new it. Sending out boosters every couple of weeks wouldn't hurt, either.

So, basically, you're saying that the flight from censorship should be toward a new CypherPunk 'home' where one is effectively censored automatically unless one kisses the ass of a Cabal?

Pretty much, yes. The voting process for a comp group is better, IMO. But the distributed mailing list is by far the most interesting solution. Contrary to what some have claimed, it really isn't the same as usenet -- it allows for distributed control. There is no doubt that the operator of a mail list host should have the freedom to set his or her policies as they see fit -- it is their machine, and their responsibility. And contrariwise, subscribers should have the freedom to chose list hosts with compatible philosophies. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: 5A 16 DA 04 31 33 40 1E 87 DA 29 02 97 A3 46 2F