Moderator's Note: One of the main delays I have in moderating the list has been the massive increase in spam that has happened in the last six months. I have had to wade through first two or three spams per real list message, and then five or ten, and finally one hundred or more. Most days, I simply didn't have time or the stomach to deal with it.
I was leaving the list with deliberately low levels of certain kinds of protection at the gate (like not blocking mail from non-subscribers) because I didn't want to stop announcements from third parties or anonymous contributions to the list. Unfortunately, I can no longer do that -- it has just become too difficult to deal with. As of yesterday, I implemented some low level blocks on the SMTP server the list is hosted on that prevent most unrepliable addresses from sending mail in. Within the next few days, I intend to block all postings from non-subscribing addresses or which contain certain kinds of content that I've been blocking anyway (such as HTML formatted email.) I realize this will inconvenience some of you, and I'm sorry about that, but I just can't deal with the work any more without taking some steps like this. At one time, I assumed that law enforcement "needs" would be the reason anonymity died on the internet, but now it appears that spammers have done the anti-privacy job for them. Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]