At 8:24 PM +0100 6/22/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>At 7:00 AM +0000 on 6/22/00, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote on cypherpunks:
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>> [Not to be forwarded by Robert Hettinga]
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><Cosby-as-Noah> RIIIIGHT....</C-N>
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>[Sure, Anonymous. Tell me your name and I won't forward your stuff.
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>It's not like someone's going to *reply* to you or anything, hmmm? :-). I
>don't forward Tim's stuff because *he* gets the reply directly if somebody
>has a question he's already answered 5 years ago, and it pisses him off.
It's not just that it pisses me off to get such questions, it's that
the nature of forwarding means that context is lost, so people see
only snippets of discussions. Discussions we have on a mailing list
are generally not intended to be self-contained articles, with proper
introductions, so people often misunderstand points made.
("Mr. May, I saw your article forwarded to the Cape Cod User's Group
list. You mentioned something called....")
Points are often incorrectly attributed, taken out of context, and
even cited by scribblers who read these other lists. Made even worse
by the massive cross-posting of articles, such as that which Matthew
Gaylor has recently taken up the gauntlet on. Some of the recipients
are _closed_ lists, which worsens the context problem.
I'm surprised the owners of the closed lists have not discouraged him
and folks like him from cross-posting widely to their lists.
(Cyberia-L, Fight-Censorship, dcsb, dbs, etc.)
--Tim May
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