On 06/26/2016 07:04 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: <SNIP>
I've never engaged in ad hominem attacks on this list, and I don't think they have a place here. This post starts with an ad hominem attack, and goes on to slam those who run the Tor Project (some of which are likely volunteers), while incorrectly saying they all work for the US military.
Why not just killfile people who post stuff that you don't want to read?
To the rest of the readership on this list (besides the original poster), do you consider this acceptable?
It's not my call. This is an unmoderated, uncensored list. I like that. If you don't like it, unsubscribe.
Once upon a time, cypherpunks was a place where constructive discussion was the norm, and outright garbage being posted to the list was not. Now, it seems it is the reverse of that. What do we have to do to fix this?
When would that have been? I've been subscribed off and on to various versions of this list for about 20 years, and there's always been garbage. Some of the garbage has been very entertaining :) Back in the day, there was so much garbage that I had to subscribe to the filtered version, to conserve bandwidth. And even that had loads of garbage.