rits a continued existence for Cypherpunks
in some form or another.
-TD
Only when Crypto is used ubiquitousl
From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Return of the death of cypherpunks.
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:09:36 -0700
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James A. Donald:
> > Since cryptography these days is routine and
> > uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong
> > reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to
> > exist.
John Kelsey
> The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and
> of talkers to thinkers to coders needs
>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 28, 2005 12:09 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Return of the death of cypherpunks.
>From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> The list needs not to stay dead, with some finite
>> eff
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From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> While I don't exactly know why the list died, I
> suspect it was the fact that most list nodes offered a
> feed full of spam, dropped dead quite frequently, and
> also overusing that "needs killing" thing (okay, it
> was funny for
James overlooks the agricultural virtue of cypherpunks death
and rebirth for the natural cycle gets rid of old growth and allows
for a new improved version.
No doubt the old crop doesn't get much satisfaction being
taken for manure, nor do the new sprouts see any reason to hail
the shit doing
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When a mailing list is full of crap, it dies, even though the
regulars set killfiles to silence the offending posters. The
reason is, no new people arrive.
New people subscribe, see nothing but crap, unsubscribe.
A mailing list or newsgroup needs a strong personality who is a
prolifi
