From: Matts Kallioniemi <matts@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 07:26:02 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: My Departure, Moderation, and "Ownership of the List"
Message-ID: <199702051526.HAA28754@toad.com>
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Jeremiah A Blatz wrote:
>On the choke points note, mailing lists are better than usenet because
>legendary AOLers with there 5 free hours of fame and their ilk usually
>don't figure out how to pester mailing lists. Being on a mailing list
>usually requires a commitment, that is enough of a barrier for many of
>the usenet underirables.

Another way to get rid of the totally clueless and involuntary subscribers
would be to require subscription requests to be PGP signed and acknowledged
by the subscriber.

Matts

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