From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 13:41:36 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypherpunks as a newsgroup
Message-ID: <199509162041.NAA10780@desiree.teleport.com>
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At 03:40 PM 9/16/95 -0400, Ian wrote:

>I've been very impressed with the signal/noise ratio on this list.
>In fact, people often put [NOISE] in the subject line to flag trivial
>content.  This ratio will certainly go down if we go to a newsgroup.

I have a group of friends who get forwarded the "best" of the Cypherpunks
list.  The signal to noise ratio is high enough that I have to be careful
how much I forward lest I get complaints at the volume of what I forward.
Turning this into an alt group would destroy that.

>One of the main benefits of Usenet is that anyone can _post_.
>One of the main detriments is that _anyone_ can post.

How true.
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