From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:11:20 -0800 (PST)
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
Message-ID: <199702160111.RAA14459@toad.com>
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Dale Thorn allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> 
> If I understood the last several hundred messages correctly, they have
> tried to make the point that the cypherpunks mailing list (unedited)
> was more ideal than a newsgroup.  If this is what Dave is offering,
> I'm surprised if more people don't jump on it.  Then again, they
> took their good ol' time jumping onto cypherpunks-unedited.

Dave is offering a single mailing list, which, while I am sure Dave is
a great person, still represents a single point of control and a
single point of failure.  A distributed mailing list has a potential
for being much more robust, and for supporting a wide range of
viewpoints.  Furthermore a distributed mailing list is an interesting
minor technical problem, and a good solution could have wide
applicability.

So I think that people would like to get the distributed list going...

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