From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:26:57 -0800 (PST)
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Subject: Re: Private property & the cypherpunks list(s)
Message-ID: <199702140126.RAA15930@toad.com>
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Greg Broiles allegedly said:
> 
> At 09:04 AM 2/13/97 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> >
> >This is where the distributed nature of the list comes   in.
> >
> >if someone disagrees with Jim's AUP, he or she can use soem other
> >mailing list host.
> 
> Is this the policy of the majordomo network, that individual list operators
> can make their own policies for their subscribers, but may not/cannot
> impose them on other list operators or the other lists' members? It sounds
> very reasonable, but it would be nice to be clear about whether or not this
> is the case. 
> 
> Are there any rules (other than "no rules") which apply to all lists/list
> operators/list subscribers? Can there ever be any? Who would write the
> rules, and who must agree to them in order for them to take effect?
> 
> Can individual list operators be forced to or forbidden to "peer" with
> other machines, or are these "peer" relationships up to each list operator?

Both realistically and idealistically speaking, the peer relationships
should be up to each list operator.  

And, once again, both realistically and idealistically speaking, each
list operator should set their own policies.  The beauty of this 
scheme is that it gives maximum freedom to both the list operators 
*and* the list members -- if a list operator wants to filter out 
clever asci art, they can, and contrariwise, if the list members want 
to change list operators as a result, they can.  In fact, I don't see 
why moderated versions of the list couldn't happily coexist as part 
of the distributed list.  Let those flowers bloom!

BTW, I am planning on an upgrade to majordomo 1.94.1 this weekend, 
and I will be setting up cypherpunks@songbird.com at that time.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
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