Has everyone on this list lost their minds? Can't someone give a well-intentioned piece of advice without getting bogged down in a ten-day flame war? I don't think anyone here questions the integrity of the EFF. They were trying to help by giving the names of those outlaw GIFs. What's the big deal? If there's someone smoking a cigarette on the subway platform and I see a cop coming, I'll tip the person off. Common courtesy. (I'm not saying this is the exact same thing that the EFF is doing, just making an analogy.) Why blow this all out of proportion? Please do your part to save bandwidth and keep S/N as high as possible. If you're going to harangue people, do it via private email. Probably 40% of cypherpunk posts in the last few weeks have been stupid bickering that never should have started and probably persuaded quite a few people to unsubscribe besides. There's no need to let everyone on the list know about every tiny disagreement you have with someone's opinion. Especially when that person clearly has the best of intentions. Maybe we SHOULD make people pay to post the list. -Mr. Funn
nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu writes:
Maybe we SHOULD make people pay to post the list.
This is an excellent idea. A modest suggestion: build a email-based digital cash system; allot each reader a certain amount of cash per month; charge a fee for posting. We'd have to figure out a way to give extra income to posters that other posters agree with, or vice-versa, in a non-onerous way... On a totally different topic, has anyone investigated using the LSbit of CD sound tracks as the source of a 1-time pad?
Robert J. Woodhead wrote: # This is an excellent idea. A modest suggestion: build a email-based # digital cash system; allot each reader a certain amount of cash # per month I obviously need to read up on the digital cash idea. The messages that I've read make the concept sound like play money... I mean, does the coin of the realm in my pocket become the ethereal coin in a digital bank? What protections are there from digital embezzlers? Whither the FDIC? (Why is the sky blue? :-) et cetera.) If the whole subject is just a classroom exercise in economics and authentication theory, then I'll be a little disappointed. Bob -- ============================================================================== Bob Izenberg voice phone: 512-891-8680 Motorola RISC Software bobi@vswr.sps.mot.com ==============================================================================
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