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Digital signatures to be required?
- To: [email protected]
- Subject: Digital signatures to be required?
- From: [email protected] (Greg Broiles)
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 17:50:01 PDT
- Organization: iDeath / Golden Bear Consulting
My C-punks feed comes over a UUCP connection, and I only poll once or twice
per day, under normal circumstances. I'd likely never notice a 6-hour delay,
and hence wouldn't give a shit one way or the other.
Delaying message posting seems likely to exacerbate the "ask a question,
get the same answer 8 times" problem.
If we're going to reward some behaviors and punish others, I'd prefer to see
something that'd create exponentially increasing delays for > 1 post per
person per 24 hours; of course, remailers make that impractical.
Imposing a digital signature requirement strikes me as an arbitrary
exercise of authority which would be largely without benefit. I doubt that
people interested in the C-punks list are the folks who need to be dragged
kicking & screaming into the 21st century; at least not in terms of personal
use of technology. :)
Count mine as a "NO" vote; let's talk about the delay thing again when we
come up with a filter that can spot "what is [anarchy|libertarianism]
anyway?" or bogus pseudo-economic jibberish.
--
Greg Broiles
[email protected] Baked, not fried.