From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:43:56 -0800 (PST)
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Subject: Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
Message-ID: <199702160643.WAA27051@toad.com>
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Kent Crispin wrote:
> 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...

I hope this doesn't duplicate the earlier message - if someone were
tracking all this activity and kept the lists informed about what
was available where - and particularly if the downloading could be
automatic as in the subscription lists - that would be ideal.

I wanted to spend some time on alt.cypherpunks, but I haven't got
thru the subscription mail for the last few days yet.  If there's
a scheme that works better than just ad-hoc looking, I'd sure like
to know.