Subject: Is the list down?

No (and the delay between your posting and my reply is just because I've been too busy to read it all.) In general, if the list isn't reaching you, it's occasionally because mail is stuck between toad.com and your machine, occasionally because the list is stuck, and occasionally because you've been dropped. If you send mail to majordomo@toad.com saying who cypherpunks it will send you a list of everyone on the list, possibly including you. (If it doesn't include you, then you know what's wrong.) If mail's working, it usually answers pretty fast. If mail's jammed, sometimes this kicks it off, and sometimes it stalls, just like a posting you sent to the entire 1200+ list members would (:-). And sometimes there's something more subtle going on, in which case you can send mail to cypherpunks-owner@toad.com and/or owner-cypherpunks@toad.com. Of course, it could be that nobody's posted anything to the list in the last 24 hours, which probably means that Hugh's implemented the Signal-to-Noise-Improver Bot and nothing made it past the filters..... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Dispel Authority!