From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:23:42 +0800
To: Ryan Lackey <cypherpunks@ssz.com
Subject: Re: (eternity) Mailing List Archives
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At 11:39 AM -0800 1/15/98, Ryan Lackey wrote:

>I've put the archives of the Eternity Mailing List (eternity@internexus.net)
>up on http://sof.mit.edu/eternity/mail-archive/
>
>The mailing list is host to discussion of the theoretical issues behind
>Eternity service, Blacknet, Adam Back's Eternity USENET implementation,
>and my forthcoming Eternity DDS implementation.
>
>(7 articles got lost from the archive while I was setting it up.  I sent
>them to itself as "missing articles 86-92".  I'll restore their
>original headers at some point.)

Thanks for doing this.

But I'll point out that I choose to continue to use the Cypherpunks list,
as I have since 1992, as the main forum for my own comments. If anyone
wants to read my stuff, they are encouraged to subscribe to the Cypherpunks
list.

I think list proliferation has gotten way, way out of hand. It seems that
any time a topic becomes hot, someone decides it needs its own mailing
list. Then, as it becomes not quite so hot, volumes drop off the radar
screen and the list essentially vanishes.

(Any besides me remember the lists devoted to DC Nets? The list "Digital
Anarchy"? The list "Digital Liberty"? The "Nym" list?)

We have a dozen or so lists all ostensibly covering much the same material,
such as Coderpunks, Cryptography, Fight-Censorship, PoliLaw (or somesuch),
e$spam, Remailer Operators, Eternity, and probably half a dozen others I
have no awareness of, or have forgotten here.

Worse, some of these are moderated.  (I make it a point not to subscribe to
moderated lists unless the reasons are compelling.)

--Tim May

The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES:   408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^2,976,221   | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."