From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:25:14 +0800
To: "Graham C. Hughes" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Certified primes
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At 9:05 PM -0800 5/9/97, Graham writes about Graham-John:

>> Please can you stop this spam from your site.
>
>It's unclear how lucifer could do this without limiting legit traffic
>and destroying the usefulness of the remailer.  Filtering by mail
>addresses is immoral for such a remailer, as is examination of the
>source text.
>
>Better to address this server side, in the list itself, but that
>requires moderators and a lot of time and effort.  The result is often
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>worth it.  Even better than that is to simply ignore the loser.
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Oh yeah? "The result is often worth it"?

Apparently Graham is not acquainted with the history of this list.

As I like to say, "Those not acquainted with the history of the Cypherpunks
list are condemned to continue suggesting it be moderated."

(not a direct quote of Carlos Santana, nor the other guy with the similar
name.)

--Tim May


There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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