On Wednesday 30 October 2002 13:17, David E. Weekly wrote: > Cypherpunks, > > I run a 501(c)(3) non-profit ... > > I'd like to understand how we could be useful to the cypherpunk > community.
I went through this myself a few years ago, when my nice new DSL line with static IP was burning a hole in my pocket. My solution was to archive a handful of mailing lists including cpunks and cpunx-news. ( http://archives.abditum.com/ ) One thing to think about is how much heat you're willing to take. If you run a remailer output node, you can count on spam recipients sending you hate mail. They might send hate mail to your upstream, too. You might get nastygrams from lawyers. Depending on your hookup, your upstream might boot you off. If you host collections of articles, archives of mailing lists, snapshots of websites, or similar, you'll probably be violating someone's copyright at some point. Complaints about violations can be resolved by taking down or hiding the offending material (that's been my experience, anyway), but it can be a nuisance. Getting away from controversial activities, you might serve as a mirror for some tools site like freshmeat or sourceforge. This can be automated, so after setup it requires disk space and bandwidth but not much human time. You can set up your own collection of tools and articles, grabbing everything that anyone mentions on the cpunks list and soliciting contribitions. This will take more human time on your end because you'll need to set up the pages, projects, links, and what-not. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking