This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your subject line. Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your own summary, or something? If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's just a random pointer. Historically most of them are not even remotely crypto related. I asked politely in private email if you would consider providing summaries. I received no reply. If you aren't going to provide summaries and meaningful subject lines, I politely ask that you stop sending the list random URLs. Adam On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:28:14PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/032601/golfcourse_kehnemui_shuster.sml

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:51:34AM -0400, Adam Back wrote:

This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your subject line. Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your own summary, or something?

If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's just a random pointer. Historically most of them are not even remotely crypto related.

I asked politely in private email if you would consider providing summaries. I received no reply. If you aren't going to provide summaries and meaningful subject lines, I politely ask that you stop sending the list random URLs.

Adam

Asking Jim to make his posts "meaningful" doesn't do anything other than annoy Jim and add to the clutter on the list. If readers do not find Jim's posts worth reading, then they should not waste their time reading them. Below is a procmail script fragment to filter out Jim's cypherpunks posts into a seperate folder without affecting any other mail he might send to the recipient. If you wanted you could get fancier and also filter on "slashdot" in the mail body. # mailing lists: :0 * ^From.*owner-cypherpunks@.* { :0: * (^From:.*ravage@.*\.ssz\.com.*|\ ^From:.*ravage@ssz\.com.*) choate # default is read: :0: cypherspool }