At 18:08 4/28/2000 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>The reason I post and how and what I post are decisions made by
>myself. Judging from the thousands of subscribers and the large number of
>thank yous I get for posting material, I don't think I'm going to change
>one iota the manner, frequency or content of what I choose to say or
>post. I could list the positive results of my activism, but your request
>makes me suspicious.
Matt: Tim is not singling you out. Perhaps he's just getting crotchety
nowadays, but Tim has been complaining for years about the number of
you-need-to-see-this forwarded messages that folks crosspost to
cypherpunks. The web seems a better distribution mechanism for them. I
don't believe Tim is complaining about your freematt list that you're
talking about above ("thousands of subscribers") -- but your crossposts to
four or five other mailing lists at at time.
Me, I'm pretty agnostic on this. But some of the stuff you've
bulk-forwarded to f-c (of which I am the ostensible list owner), like
census and Microsoft antitrust info, does seem arguably off-topic. I
generally find it interesting and even agree with you (I suspect) on most
issues, but it mildly repetitive to get the same message from you so many
times on so many lists. Why don't you simply encourage folks to sign up to
freematt instead?
-Declan
