Re: spam attack on cpunks list,

2002-02-06 Thread proffr11
(Yeah, if anyone spots a truly relevant item, commenting on it is welcome. Or posting a URL. But simple game theory says that it's best that people don't just bounce things they read to our list, something Choate, mattd, and Jei seem to not understand.) I store articles that interest me

Re: spam attack on cpunks list,

2002-02-06 Thread Jei
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, proffr11 wrote: I've also paid some dues in that I'm being prosecuted for endeavoring to further crypto-anarchy.I've had one 3000$ notebook seized and held over 8 months.I spit in the eye of happy fun court.I try and propagate crypto-anarchist ideas in other forums,(like

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-06 Thread Ken Brown
Eric Murray wrote: [...] Spam on cpunks has gone WAY up in the last month or so... to the point that on the raw feed there is usually significantly more spam than content[1]. The only drawback to this filtering scheme is that I still have to look at all the spam to make sure there isn't a

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jei wrote: I've never taken the list to be for only my purposes. I forward and post what I find relevant and interesting. Your definition of relevant is... interesting. You were the one who forwarded the article about

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jei wrote: I've been on cpunks lists for years. The one before this got 100 spam e-mails per day, and I don't mean news articles that people forwarded. Frankly, I don't see why people are so soft-skinned about the topic. The whole concept is fuzzy at best and until our

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-06 Thread Petro
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Jei wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Tim May wrote: (Yeah, if anyone spots a truly relevant item, commenting on it is welcome. Or posting a URL. But simple game theory says that it's best that people don't just bounce things they read to our list,

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Petro wrote: Bullshit. I'd have less of your passed-along drivel in my mailbox, 5 or ten less items to delete, a few more seconds to spend on *worthwhile* articles. Here's a good rule of thumb, if you can't think of 2 or 4 paragraphs to say about

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
[1] this isn't true of the other lists that I run some of which have been around for many years, and get very little spam. I think that it's pretty obvious that one or more people are luring spam to cpunks in order to discourage the discussions that happen here. This has been obvious for

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:03 AM, Eric Murray wrote: Lne.com CDR subscribers won't see them, but someone is signing up the ssz node to a lot of web mail lists roughly 30 as of this morning. The IP addr of the host generating the subscription requests is 62.211.132.149, which

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread keyser-soze
At 12:14 AM 2/6/2002 +0100, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Could it be that there is a subspecies genetically adapted to work for the government ? There is a very strong evolutionary pressure here - they would get more chance to procreate than their victims. Which brings

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Jei
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Tim May wrote: (Yeah, if anyone spots a truly relevant item, commenting on it is welcome. Or posting a URL. But simple game theory says that it's best that people don't just bounce things they read to our list, something Choate, mattd, and Jei seem to not understand.)

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
genetic information. The target's histocompatibility markers. Just walk by their car and take a swipe of the door handle (warning: could also target family members and parking attendants). Looks like pretty soon the knowledge of someone's GATC code will be deadly. Time to put on those 6'

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:36:29AM +0200, Jei wrote: My logic tells me it is best to ensure the widest coverage to issues you care about, get as many sources as you can, and simply ram down the facts as many people's troats as you can, Many people on this list don't appreciate having stuff

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Jei
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Eric Murray wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:36:29AM +0200, Jei wrote: My logic tells me it is best to ensure the widest coverage to issues you care about, get as many sources as you can, and simply ram down the facts as many people's troats as you can, Many

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Jei
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote: genetic information. The target's histocompatibility markers. Just walk by their car and take a swipe of the door handle (warning: could also target family members and parking attendants). Looks like pretty soon the knowledge of someone's GATC