Douglas, to state this more clearly, you are doing rare work, but these mailing lists are filled with influences working hard to stop that work. I thought about this a little bit and I think if you wanted more constructive feedback a good place to look could be in-person conferences attended by hackers. Back in the day of cypherpunks (when I was just a teenager and couldn't really travel) conferences were where communication could really happen. In-person communication can't be intercepted, waylaid, mutated, profiled, trolled, etc nearly as easily as online communicatoin. It's much more trusted and much higher quality. Big cities have their own conferences that I don't know well. Historically one of the major groups was something like the chaos computer club in germany. They actually have a conference coming up the start of next month: https://2023.mrmcd.net/ . My memory might not be putting the words together right, but back in the day something like these groups seemed like one of the primary grassroots infosec communities in the world. I haven't been to germany myself. Finding a local group like a cryptoparty or such can find people who can guide to more conferences. I'm thinking you might have been to conferences, I'm probably forgetting something here, not sure.