The Dangers of Cross-Pollinating Other Mailing Lists

[Timothy C. May]

mailing lists on messages they send to
Cypherpunks (or vice versa), we often get flooded with insults and spams
from people who don't share our views. (While I have nothing against trying
to recruit others to our views, in my opinion this is best done by
judicious writing of essays for _them_, tuned to their interests, and not
in mindless spamming of every list that might have a passing interest in
some of the topics.) We already have enough traffic here, and don't need 
replies from a bunch of
other lists, be they libertarian lists, digital commerce lists, human
rights lists, or java lists. The latest example of this is the rantfest 
invvolving these players: ------
From: Jack Hammer <jh at teleport.com>
To: jim bell <jimbell at pacifier.com>
Cc: Rich Graves <llurch at networking.stanford.edu>, cypherpunks at toad.com,
nwlibertarians at teleport.com, hammernet-l at teleport.com,
libernet-d at dartmouth.EDU, liberty-and-justice at pobox.com
------ I recognized Bell and Graves, but not the others. And I see no 
reason why
our list should be dragged into flames about "fart sacks" by people on all
of these other lists. This was the final straw, and I have no choice except 
to add Bell, Graves,
Hammer, etc. to my filter list, which I will now proceed to do 
beforesending this message off. [Done] Words have consequences. So do 
flames. --Tim May