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Digest needed
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:55:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: Kent Crispin <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> To: Dale Thorn <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
>
> Dale Thorn allegedly said:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > If I understood the last several hundred messages correctly, they have
> > tried to make the point that the cypherpunks mailing list (unedited)
> > was more ideal than a newsgroup. If this is what Dave is offering,
> > I'm surprised if more people don't jump on it. Then again, they
> > took their good ol' time jumping onto cypherpunks-unedited.
>
> Dave is offering a single mailing list, which, while I am sure Dave is
> a great person, still represents a single point of control and a
> single point of failure. A distributed mailing list has a potential
> for being much more robust, and for supporting a wide range of
> viewpoints. Furthermore a distributed mailing list is an interesting
> minor technical problem, and a good solution could have wide
> applicability.
>
> So I think that people would like to get the distributed list going...
>
What is it going to do then, all run on the same majordomo?
> --
> Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
> [email protected],[email protected] the thief he kindly spoke...
> PGP fingerprint: 5A 16 DA 04 31 33 40 1E 87 DA 29 02 97 A3 46 2F
Just make sure it all works on Linux.
I think a -digest- would be in order, and if everybody uses the same
program, you can make sure there are no duplicates.
I will put up the address for Vulis to run. Now the cypherpunks
all support the net.scum web-page, right?