1996 sponsor-RJ Reynolds. Also from 96.Pope tim may issues papal bull and excommunication of 2 list contributors.
Subject: The Dangers of Cross-Pollinating Other Mailing Lists From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy C. May) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:42:44 -0800 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, When people decide to copy other mailing lists on messages they send to Cypherpunks (or vice versa), we often get flooded with insults and spams from people who don't share our views. (While I have nothing against trying to recruit others to our views, in my opinion this is best done by judicious writing of essays for _them_, tuned to their interests, and not in mindless spamming of every list that might have a passing interest in some of the topics.) We already have enough traffic here, and don't need replies from a bunch of other lists, be they libertarian lists, digital commerce lists, human rights lists, or java lists. The latest example of this is the rantfest invvolving these players: ------ From: Jack Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jim bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rich Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ I recognized Bell and Graves, but not the others. And I see no reason why our list should be dragged into flames about "fart sacks" by people on all of these other lists. This was the final straw, and I have no choice except to add Bell, Graves, Hammer, etc. to my filter list, which I will now proceed to do beforesending this message off. [Done] Words have consequences. So do flames. --Tim May
