Kent Crispin wrote:

Dale Thorn allegedly said:

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If I understood the last several hundred messages correctly, they have tried to make the point that the cypherpunks mailing list (unedited) was more ideal than a newsgroup. If this is what Dave is offering, I'm surprised if more people don't jump on it. Then again, they took their good ol' time jumping onto cypherpunks-unedited.

Dave is offering a single mailing list, which, while I am sure Dave is a great person, still represents a single point of control and a single point of failure. A distributed mailing list has a potential for being much more robust, and for supporting a wide range of viewpoints. Furthermore a distributed mailing list is an interesting minor technical problem, and a good solution could have wide applicability. So I think that people would like to get the distributed list going...

I hope this doesn't duplicate the earlier message - if someone were tracking all this activity and kept the lists informed about what was available where - and particularly if the downloading could be automatic as in the subscription lists - that would be ideal. I wanted to spend some time on alt.cypherpunks, but I haven't got thru the subscription mail for the last few days yet. If there's a scheme that works better than just ad-hoc looking, I'd sure like to know.