NWLibs> Stop Cross-Copying (Re: Take the money, Harry, re.)

[jim bell]

At 07:14 PM 6/20/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 5:19 PM 6/20/96, RogErick at aol.com wrote:
>
>>  I agree with you, Tonie, as usual.
>>   I struggled with this, for years, until I had a dream.  I was on a
>>battlefield, pinned down by enemy fire, and I was out of ammunition.
>....
>
>
>Hey, folks, I'm a libertarian, and even voted for John Hospers in 1972. But
>the Cypherpunks mailing list has over 1200 subscribers, and cross-copying
>to it for these debates is not a good idea. I presume the same is true
>about cross-copying Cypherpunks stuff onto "nwlibertarians at teleport.co,"
>but I can't say for sure.
>
>What I know is that wide cross-posting (or cross-copying) is the bane of
>lists these days. There are so many lists, so much overlap, that the
>temptation is great to cc: any conceivably-related list.
>
>Hey, no one speaks for Cypherpunks, least of all me, but I think
>cross-copying between libertarian, or digital commerce, or Wobbly, or
>International Socialist Women of Color, or Unabomber Brigade mailing lists
>to the Cypherpunks list is inappropriate.

The subject was the use of digital cash for accepting Federal matching 
funds.  I cross-posted ONE message.  It was appropriately on-topic in both areas.

Okay?

Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com