Announce: "secret-admirers" mail list

BMM bmm at minder.net
Thu Dec 14 19:23:37 PST 2000


The list is gatewayed from/to alt.anonymous.messages, which provides a bit
more cover.  I agree that it would be more useful as an extension of
a.a.m than standalone.

Thanks,

-Brian

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:

> It's cute, but it won't wash.
> The problem is that a list like this doesn't provide any
> Obscurity to its users unless there are a large number of subscribers.
> One reader out of a thousand is slightly Obscure.
> One reader out of three just isn't.
> Adding large numbers of posters to the list doesn't help,
> though you could use it as a dead drop for those NYTimes subscriptions
> and egroups subscriptions if you wanted.
> 
> A gateway from alt.anonymous.messages might be fun anyway.
> Back when people read Usenet on their own machines,
> instead of getting it from an ISP via NNTP clients,
> Usenet groups gave readers Pretty Good Obscurity.
> That might still be the case at universities or companies
> that maintain their own news feeds, but there aren't a lot any more,
> especially since a full newsfeed takes multiple T1s full-time.





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