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Re: "alt.cypherpunks" Newsgroup vs. Mailing List?
>Should there be an "alt.cypherpunks" type of newsgroup instead of this
>mailing list?
Bad idea, it would simply mean that every kook on USEnet would add
alt.cypherpunks onto the crossposting line. We would have black helicopters, gun
loons, Waco Wako's, Loonytarians and turkish government propaganda spamming
forever.
I think we should wait a while. I see USEnet going through some very dramatic
changes quite soon, the infrastructure of newsgroups is now insufficient to
support the cognitive complexity of discorse amongst so many people. I expect
more structures discorse models such as the lightweight link semantics of
Openmeeting and Wit to percolate in, NCSA already have a version of hypernews
with these features.
One thought to ponder on. There is no real difference in terms of resources
required between a mailing list and an archive of a mailing list at a Web site.
The latter does avoid a large number of unnecessary dispatches however.
Phill
Phill