On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Cathal Garvey wrote:
Does anybody happen to curate this list into a more signal>noise form? I filter the noisier trolls, but everyone else then takes the troll-bait and things continue to spiral downwards.
Rian Wahby is our "Curator".
Who's actually here to discuss privacy and crypto?
On 19/01/14 20:45, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
Hi All, I would add its NOT just a mailing list, it IS instead an insane asylum and experiment in social darwinism where reputation capitol has replaced wealth in the currency of the group.
just my .02
In the past, the list almost destroyed itself over the question of whether moderation equalls censorship, and a distributed list was created, where each feed was shared, but the moderation of what came in was decided by each node operator. I personally dont care about th S/N ratio too much, and as such, tend towards extremely light moderation of the silent variety. Obviously, Riad believes in open skies. As long as there is just one node, we really need an anything goes, each person needs to learn to control themselves approach.
Me and Riad will be trying to hack mailmain inot a CDR system soon (the old one used the now long deprecated Majordomo scripting system).
I want to apologize to everyone else for having to put up with me taking up the troll-bait and having a nice shit-wrestle. The experience (experiment?) did, however, confirm my personal conviction that privacy and anonymity are expensive, and we as a society generally have to pay that cost for others, and the cost continues to spiral out of control as surveillance capabilities spiral out of control. See subject {}coin for what I hope might be part of a solution. -- Troy