From: "Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 13:18:53 PST
To: srikar@netcom.com
Subject: Re: calling all cpunks on netcom
Message-ID: <199412132112.NAA20077@ar.com>
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> From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Dec 13 13:04 PST 1994
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 11:46:14 -0800
> From: srikar@netcom.com (Shrieks)
> Message-Id: <199412131946.LAA26053@netcom20.netcom.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: calling all cpunks on netcom
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just floating a trial balloon. Are you tired of the high traffic on
> the cypherpunks list and having to wade through a ton of mail every
> day? Any of you folks approaching your 5M limit from archiving too
> many messages? Well, I am and I don't really want to start paying
> for the extra memory.

ever tried to get netcom to do anything for you?

> I was wondering if it might be worth petitioning the netcom sysadmins
> to start up a local newsgroup (eg. netcom.cpunks) that serves as an
> archive for the mailing list. That way one gets to use the abilities
> of <insert favourite threaded news browser here>  to keep threads together 
> and so forth. I'm sure there are enough netcom subscribers to warrant this.

I'm working on a system that indexes,marks up, and serves up html versions
of E-Mail lists. It's still very alpha stuff. cypherpunks is in the
tryal part of system I call the Biblotech. All URL's that come through
the system are also indexed...


It's not tiny stuff Sybase, Verity search engine etc are all involved.

Would anyone be against me doing such a thing? alowing anyone to 
view the c-punks list via html etc...

-Rick