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? 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]
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?
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