-----Original Message----- From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-bounces@lists.cpunks.org] On Behalf Of Shawn K. Quinn Sent: Thursday, 03 February 2022 10:20 PM To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Ex- Tor devs
On 2/3/22 21:16, lolwut wrote:
No, you're wrong here; I wouldn't care, for I can employ filtering or simply skip past the spam. Merely making certain posts harder to find and read is nowhere near the same as preventing the posts from even being sent in the first place. Do not censor the source, but instead let each recipient decide which messages he wishes to see on his end.
Okay, 100,000 messages per day, and 99,995 of them are "Enlarge your penis with these Nicaraguan pharmacy pills". What's the point of continuing to download thousands of crap messages just to maybe get the few worth reading?
Yet how simple would it be to filter all this?
You see how it's censorship to flood a list with off-topic crap now?
If not, imagine the mailing list host turning off the list because there's simply too much spam.
Maybe in extreme edge cases like this, but even then I cannot ever see how any reasonable person could think to get law enforcement involved, as you had earlier indicated; again, it is blowing something far out of proportion, and crying to the government for help rather than seeking other solutions.