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1997-02-12 - Re: Moderation experiment almost over; “put up or shut up”

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: pjm@spe.com (Patrick May)
Message Hash: 1ca8bea9226b157325aa50ac8b2c5fb597fceaeee4f4325468951d4e3254c603
Message ID: <199702120127.TAA20733@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <199702112210.OAA01556@gulch.spe.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-02-12 01:32:23 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:32:23 -0800 (PST)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:32:23 -0800 (PST)
To: pjm@spe.com (Patrick May)
Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
In-Reply-To: <199702112210.OAA01556@gulch.spe.com>
Message-ID: <199702120127.TAA20733@manifold.algebra.com>
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Patrick May wrote:
>      Before doing this, I'd need the answers to a few questions:
> 
>      - Is there still any interest in a cypherpunks mailing list?

yes
 
>      - Is alt.cypherpunks a better alternative?

it is not an alternative, it is a complement. 

i think that alt.cypherpunks will be a failure because all of
the troubles of alt.* hierarchy.

>      - Majordomo can be configured to require confirmation of
>        subscription requests, thus avoiding some attacks.  Is there
>        any simple way to protect against mailloops?  Directly
>        accessing the listname-outgoing alias?

Add X-Loop: header and use procmail to protect against messages
FROM_DAEMON and FROM_MAILER.

>      - Is a pentium up to the task of running a list of this size and
>        volume?

yes, it is the other stuff that's the problem -- memory, connection
speed, etc.

	- Igor.

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