From: Ryan Lackey
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 22:53:39 BST From: whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk (Russell E. Whitaker) Reply-To: whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk To: cypherpunks@toad.com Cc: whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
and the present. I'm also feeling tempted to incorporate the archives of
some of the offshoot mailing lists, like coderpunks, etc.
Does anyone know of a good source for the messages before that one? How
many were there, approximately? If there are a bunch of them and you can
merge them with mine, I'll be happy to send you a cd of the result.
If enough people want to buy CDs of the data, I'll set up an order page,
establish pricing, etc. Right now, for me to make a CD requires buying
media and doing it at the media lab, unless I buy a drive, so the cost
is somewhat dependent upon how many people are interested. If someone wants
to use corporate or government money to overpay for a cd so I can buy
a cd-r writer and make it cheaper for everyone else, I'll think fondly of
whatever organization you represent :)
Utterly ignoring the copyright issues in the interest of getting wide
dispersal, especially since it's unlikely anyone cares since no one will
get rich selling cypherpunks cd-roms,
Ryan
(the last time I wished for something in parenthetical postscript it worked.
Wish granting service, will you please make the people of the world
clueful enough to replace governmental/military force with cryptography? Or
convince one of my professors that they should sign a blank thesis?)
--
Ryan Lackey
rdl@mit.edu
http://mit.edu/rdl/
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From: Ryan Lackey
(There is, by the way, a project simmering along to put the 5 years of Cypherpunks traffic on a Web site...)
I have everything but the first 8 months or so of traffic in the process of going up on the web soon. (Stupid deadline appeared which put this off for a few hours). If the first 8 months were in someplace I could find them, then there would be a nice complete archive no longer simmering, but up on the web, ready for people to mirror. Dr. Dobbs' Journal sells a Cryptography CD-ROM with AC v 2, etc. on it for $99, and combined with a Cypherpunks CD-ROM containing list archives of cypherpunks, coderpunks, cryptography@c2.org, and maybe some other stuff for $50 or so, there would be 2-cd solution. I'm pretty sure all 5 years fit on one cd-rom -- I've been using 4 years as an eternity dds dataset, along with some other stuff, and I think it is less than 500mb, although one of the problems with my current eternity file system under linux is that there is no way of telling how big a directory is (yay VFS kludges). -- Ryan Lackey rdl@mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/