"... And there's something I'm curious about, what are people doing on this mailing list who aren't interested in information security that can't write a code? ..." Maybe cos its an anarchists list for discussing the socio-economic & political aspects of cryptographic code use. The political economy of Dead-Pools, for example. Or the rise of the crypto-currency sector over 2 trillion USD $ as we speak. List founder Tim ' Mongo " May often made this broader point - that the list should not encourage specialist technocrats. So " Code ' should be meant as broadly as possible. It's on disk - check the archives. "...I really wonder why this mailing list isn't being used for its purpose? ..." Batshit-crazy Nazi-Fag-Morons - the Gramps, Semich, ' Natural-Rights' bowtie-anarchy Losers type -  tried to squat here for a brief while so we're evicting them right now.  Increasingly the cryptoanarchist infrastructure market is taking over this lists purpose as its living out the cypherpunk creed - " Privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful " Money talks - bullshit walks.