Digest needed

aga aga at dhp.com
Sun Feb 16 08:28:56 PST 1997


On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:55:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com>
> Reply-To: freedom-knights at jetcafe.org
> To: Dale Thorn <dthorn at gte.net>
> Cc: ichudov at algebra.com, dave at kachina.jetcafe.org,
>     freedom-knights at jetcafe.org, cypherpunks at toad.com
> Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
> 
> Dale Thorn allegedly said:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > If I understood the last several hundred messages correctly, they have
> > tried to make the point that the cypherpunks mailing list (unedited)
> > was more ideal than a newsgroup.  If this is what Dave is offering,
> > I'm surprised if more people don't jump on it.  Then again, they
> > took their good ol' time jumping onto cypherpunks-unedited.
> 
> Dave is offering a single mailing list, which, while I am sure Dave is
> a great person, still represents a single point of control and a
> single point of failure.  A distributed mailing list has a potential
> for being much more robust, and for supporting a wide range of
> viewpoints.  Furthermore a distributed mailing list is an interesting
> minor technical problem, and a good solution could have wide
> applicability.
> 
> So I think that people would like to get the distributed list going...
> 

What is it going to do then, all run on the same majordomo?

> -- 
> Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
> kent at songbird.com,kc at llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
> PGP fingerprint:   5A 16 DA 04 31 33 40 1E  87 DA 29 02 97 A3 46 2F

Just make sure it all works on Linux.  

I think a -digest- would be in order, and if everybody uses the same
program, you can make sure there are no duplicates.

I will put up the address for Vulis to run.  Now the cypherpunks
all support the net.scum web-page, right?







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