On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 03:34:33PM -0000, sten...@nymphet.paranoici.org wrote: > Zooko Wilcox-OHearn <zo...@leastauthority.com> writes: > > > https://z.cash ... There's a lot going on there. ... Jump in! > > I want to jump in but I can't because z.cash has no mailing list. A > mailing list is needed because it allows participation by individuals > for whom any low-latency Internet access, such as posting to the web, > would allow them to be located and brought under political > subjugation. Their Internet utterances can only be by way of > anonymizing remailers having long random latency and traffic mixing.
Additionally, mailing lists have robust infrastructure available for archiving them by third-parties. This is important both to ensure that the historical development record remains available, and to ensure that record is secure from tampering. Note how the Bitcoin Core project moved its mailing lists to the Linux Foundation in part to ensure that discussion was happening on a forum whose operators were unrelated to Bitcoin Core itself. Similarly day-to-day IRC development chat happens on Freenode, again run by people distinct from Bitcoin Core itself. I personally decided to stop posting new technical content on bitcointalk and instead post it on the Bitcoin development mailing list years ago for precisely these reasons. I would strongly suggest that https://forum.z.cash/ be closed and replaced by a mailing list. Warren Togami could help get it hosted by the Linux Foundation as well if the Zcash project is interested in that hosting option. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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