The uses of pseudo-links

[Declan McCullagh]

Right. Most news organizations nowadays provide some kind of "alert"
service. Wired News has one that lets readers choose to be alerted by
name of author or keyword:

http://www.wired.alerts.com/wired/add_alert.jsp

These, to buttress your point, are better mechanisms to be alerted to
relevant articles than the cpunks list is.

-Declan


On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:42:07AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> Your definition of "useful" is different from mine. I believe lists 
> like ours should primarily be about discussions and points of view, 
> not a third-hand CNET or Register or Slashdot. There are many Web 
> sources of breaking news (not that a lot of the "functional quantum 
> computer" sorts of stories are usually breaking news...).
> 
> Personally, I like it when someone finds a news item, provides a 
> detailed URL, even quotes (in ASCII, not MIME!) a paragraph or two, 
> and then comments on it and connects it to Cypherpunks issues.
> 
> Merely dumping out "general science" items, with general URLs, is 
> just plain abusing the list.
> 
> --Tim May
> -- 
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