Welcome to the Asylum!

[rysiek]

Dnia niedziela, 19 stycznia 2014 22:43:28 Troy Benjegerdes pisze:
> 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.

Indeed. However, *pseudonymity* offers the benefits of identifiability without 
many of the drawbacks of total anonymity.

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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