Re: [cryptography] Nonlinear bias in subscription state. Re: not unsubscribing (Re: Unsubscribing)

2011-06-16 Thread James A. Donald
On 2011-06-17 7:24 AM, Nico Williams wrote: I too miss Perry's moderating. Yet oddly, you are the major source of inflammatory not-quite-on topic posts. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/lis

Re: [cryptography] Nonlinear bias in subscription state. Re: not unsubscribing (Re: Unsubscribing)

2011-06-16 Thread Nico Williams
I hate to contribute more here but... at Sun we had a pretty good method for dealing with these OT excursions: we'd move them to a sub-list. If a list was named "crypto" the sub-list would be named "crypto-extra". A moderator would urge people to move OT threads to the -extra list. People who do

[cryptography] Nonlinear bias in subscription state. Re: not unsubscribing (Re: Unsubscribing)

2011-06-16 Thread Marsh Ray
On 06/16/2011 02:17 PM, Adam Back wrote: Trust me the noise level on here is zero compared to usenet news flame fests, spam, DoS etc. The maintainer is removing spam for one (I think). Anything looks acceptable if you're willing to set your standard of comparison low enough. Many of us aren't