From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 15:11:21 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
In-Reply-To: <199510182003.QAA06276@opine.cs.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <199510192214.SAA18672@homeport.org>
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Futplex wrote:

| The fundamental conflict, as I see it, is this: 
| For security reasons, we want messages to be distributed to a very wide
| audience, although those messages are only of interest to a very narrow
| audience. News admins understandably are generally inclined to accept
| bandwidth only in proportion to readership. For practical reasons, they don't
| want to carry messages to people who aren't interested in them. It's not
| easy to convince the news admins to do it anyway out of altruism.

	How about a local group, such as ucb.anonymous?  Those news
admins who wanted it could get it.  Not perfect, but reduced
polyticks, increased usablity.

Adam


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