Welcome to the Asylum!

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody happen to curate this list into a more signal>noise form? I
> > filter the noisier trolls, but everyone else then takes the troll-bait
> > and things continue to spiral downwards.
> 
> Rian Wahby is our "Curator".
> 
> > Who's actually here to discuss privacy and crypto?
> > 
> > On 19/01/14 20:45, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
> > > Hi All, I would add its NOT just a mailing list, it IS instead an
> > > insane asylum and experiment in social darwinism where reputation
> > > capitol has replaced wealth in the currency of the group.
> > > 
> > > just my .02
> 
> In the past, the list almost destroyed itself over the question of whether 
> moderation equalls censorship, and a distributed list was created, where 
> each feed was shared, but the moderation of what came in was decided by 
> each node operator.  I personally dont care about th S/N ratio too much, 
> and as such, tend towards extremely light moderation of the silent 
> variety. Obviously, Riad believes in open skies.  As long as there is just 
> one node, we really need an anything goes, each person needs to 
> learn to control themselves approach.
> 
> Me and Riad will be trying to hack mailmain inot a CDR system soon (the 
> old one used the now long deprecated Majordomo scripting system).

I want to apologize to everyone else for having to put up with me taking
up the troll-bait and having a nice shit-wrestle.

The experience (experiment?) did, however, confirm my personal conviction
that privacy and anonymity are expensive, and we as a society generally 
have to pay that cost for others, and the cost continues to spiral out of
control as surveillance capabilities spiral out of control.

See subject {}coin for what I hope might be part of a solution.


-- Troy