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Re: Cypherpunks vs. Coderpunks
At 09:49 PM 2/24/96 GMT, attila wrote:
>** Reply to note from Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]> 02/13/96
1:29pm -0500
>
> [snip]
>= The thing that makes Cypherpunks worthwhile is that its a place where
>= you could, once, get news updates about GAK, information on the latest
>= research into cryptography, organize mass key crackings, discuss APIs,
>= talk a bit about the politics of cryptography, etc.
>=
> sounds like we're having the sme problems as "democracy" --it soon
becomes
>irrelevant! example:
>
> I was out of town for 6 days: I returned to find 1056 messages in the sorted
> mailbox! yes: 1056 messages which it took close to an hour to delete
almost 800
> of them as irrelevant. some you can discard automatically depending on the
> author, some by content, etc. but I agree: it is clutter.
I spend most of my time here as a lurker but I must chime in now. :)
I filter to an unread area and then try to read once per week. I know
that I trim off good articles while trying to trim the fat off. If you
can't exercise restraint, how about putting "junk" as the first word in your
subject.
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