From: Travis Corcoran <tjic@OpenMarket.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:53:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: DC-Nets and Noise
Message-ID: <199601232218.RAA01328@cranmore.openmarket.com>
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In article <ad21e7f60202100476b7@[205.199.118.202]> tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:

>  Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:38:47 -0800
>  From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
>  Newsgroups: omi.mail.cypherpunks
>    
>  (In any case, even for those who disagree, modern filtering techniques make
>  it trivial for the "gurus" to filter out all messages except by the several
>  of themselves, so I've never understood the point about how the list must
>  purge itself of "noise.")

To support Tim's thesis, I'll point out that I use the following lisp
configuration directives (among others) along with a news-highlighting
package that I hacked up (gnus-live.el) in order to make reading this
list (bridged to a newsgroup at my site) a much nicer experience.

When I enter the newsgroup, the authors and topics that I like are
highlighted.  I read this 5% of the list in about 15 min, skim another
5%, and then delete the other 90%.

- From my perspective cypherpunks seems to be pretty * HIGH * bandwidth!

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	(gnus-live "Subject" "GAK Hacks and Position Surveillance")
	(gnus-live "Subject" "Libertarian Party and Crypto Anarchy")
	(gnus-live "Subject" "List of reliable remailers")
	(gnus-live "Subject" "^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]_[a-z][a-z][a-z] *$")	; jya's <FOO>-paper articles 

	(gnus-live "From" "Steven Levy <steven@echonyc\\.com>")
	(gnus-live "From" "Bruce Schneier <schneier@winternet\\.com>")
	(gnus-live "From" "payne@openmarket\\.com")
	(gnus-live "From" "tjic@.*openmarket\\.com")
	(gnus-live "From" "[a-z\.]+@.*openmarket\\.com")
	(gnus-live "From" "tcmay@[mail\.]?got\\.net")
	(gnus-live "From" "bsg@basistech\\.com (Bernard S\\. Greenberg)")
	(gnus-live "From" "rah@shipwright\\.com (Robert Hettinga)")
 ------------------------------ snip! ------------------------------

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