I get a lot of compliments on my anonymous posts here. Thanks very much guys, keep those cards and letters coming. But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world. It's tough to find the nuggets of enlightenment buried amongst the crap. I'd like to start publishing a blog. But of course given the sensitivity of my position and the boldness of my arguments, it's important that there be strong anonymity protection. Does anyone have advice on how to get started with anonymous blogging? I have access to Windows, Linux and Mac systems, and I could go through anonymizer.com or some other service if necessary. Ideally I'd like to use one of the turnkey blog clients for ease of setup and use. Thanks for your suggestions.
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 05:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world. It's tough to find the nuggets of enlightenment buried amongst the crap.
Reading an unfiltered feed these days is like watching television without a mute button, without a channel change button, without a PVR. In other words, reading an unfiltered feed is a lot like watching television in 1970, when changing the channel meant getting up and walking over to turn a crude knob, when junk and spam was unavoidable.
I'd like to start publishing a blog. But of course given the sensitivity of my position and the boldness of my arguments, it's important that there be strong anonymity protection.
Blogs without active feedback are just rants. You may find yourself ranting to a handful of people you'll never know, never hear from. Boring. And as boring and low-volume as Cypherpunks has become, this is true for most lists. So many proliferated lists, blogs, newsgroups, chat forums, Yahoo groups.... (You could do the Hettinga thing and post to 7 of your own lists, but this is considered tacky in civilized places.) Offhand, I can think of several ways to do an anonymous blog...posting to alt.anonymous.messages, for starters. Same ability to do stream of conscious writing. Sure, the "immediacy" of some blogs is missing, but posting to Usenet can propagate in tens of minutes, which is comparable to most blogs. And adding anonymity through remailers makes an anonymous blog no more responsive than posting via a mail-to-Usenet gateway. But the best way would of course be to use a standard Web proxy. Such things have been out for several years. --Tim May
-- On 11 Dec 2002 at 2:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world.
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the required intelligence level. For a while Mathew kept changing his email address, which led me to consider hunting him down and remonstrating him in person on my next visit to Australia, but now he holds it constant, so he and Choate are only a problem for idiots. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3zalEmgDfRHRR2dLaPYt11ySXtkp1DlrxQ7JjK3t 4lTIAXG7p/FelDNPyrw1C62lPQej1gALsHiPdxIbJ
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the required intelligence level.
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On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the required intelligence level.
Does this vindicate homeopathy ?
No, it vindicates the vaccination approach, the antigen-antibody approach. Or, more pedestrianly, simple learning. Those who learn to filter do so. Others drown. A central tenet of homeopathy is the bizarre and acausal notion that dilution of the agent by 100x, by 1000x, even by one billion times, makes no difference. "If there is just one atom of arsenic, maybe just one quarter of an atom, in this liquid, your body will learn to later tolerate arsenic!" --Tim May "That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau
algebra.com filters choate out completely. I also filter out a lot of spam using spamassassin and a bunch of other tools. igor On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:54:20PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
-- On 11 Dec 2002 at 2:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take a look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world.
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the required intelligence level.
For a while Mathew kept changing his email address, which led me to consider hunting him down and remonstrating him in person on my next visit to Australia, but now he holds it constant, so he and Choate are only a problem for idiots.
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3zalEmgDfRHRR2dLaPYt11ySXtkp1DlrxQ7JjK3t 4lTIAXG7p/FelDNPyrw1C62lPQej1gALsHiPdxIbJ
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