Hey Greg, I got your email. Thanks for speaking to me.
I updated the Subject line and broke the thread for the below:
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 07:28:12PM -0400, Karl wrote:
> Hey Greg,
>
> > Personally, I don't think this is necessary. The nature of the cypherpunks
> > list is that people offer their thoughts, knowledge, links, criticism, etc.
> > Your contributions are generally on-topic for the list, so I don't think
> > there's a reason to downplay yourself.
>
> Are you receiving what I'm writing?
Yes.
> What do you think of this?
> > [spam][spam] i tied myself to a table leg again and i want to talk about how boss's striatum
> > wire just feels _so_ _great!_ be scared and aggressive around people different from you!
> > if i sell you some spam, will you let me buy some of yours? [spam][spam]
I think it was off the general list topics. As in, not very related to the cryptoanarchist topics we're allegedly here for.
However, I didn't think it was spam. Maybe that's just me: SPAM is more or less equivalent, in my mind, to unsolicited commercial email (UCE). We barely get any of that on the cypherpunks list.
These are often things I don't want to say, or are said when I do not want to say them. From brainwashing. [spam] helps me have ease by helping me feel better spamming the list.
And if people filter around [spam] instead of around me, they might hear me when I have something important to say, if I can learn to differentiate well again.
Regarding UCE, commercial email is not only about selling products. Hopefully that's clear to a community like this? Being a paid troll is a huge thing now.
BTW, the old archives at https://lists.cpunks.org are filled with UCE.
> Compared to this?
> > Hey does anybody have any tips on learning rust on an airgapped machine? Cargo just
> > keep frustrating me so much. Is there a crate mirror anywhere? If I made one, would
> > anybody else use it?
I found the discussion about whether rusted iron filings are magnetic to be completely within bounds for the cypherpunks list. Again, that's just my opinion.
Rust is a newer systems programming language, at a glance to me it looks like it is trying to be secure.
>>If you are truly posting something that is off-topic, then an "[offtopic]"
> >Iindicator or similar might be a good way to indicate that.
>
> I can maybe switch to thatt<okay i wanted to revise this to maybe even
> change what I was expressing but my input dialog box is moving my
> cursor all around and it is very hard to navigate, so sending as is.
> sorry about this.[spam]> honestly I was "trained" to disrupt
> communities like this and I want to give people a clear way to protect
> themselves from that disruption a little., when I can figure it out.
> at all.
Without trying to speak for anyone but myself: Do as you please with the subject headings. I was merely suggesting that the [spam] tag probably isn't needed, in my view.
Trying to disrupt cypherpunks is sort of a cottage industry around here. When disruption is the norm, it makes disruption tougher to do!
Greg
Or easier but yeah ...
Uhh ...
I have severe problems preserving and accessing information. That might be why a lot of [spam] ends up here. I need a way to store feelings without losing them, somewhere.