On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 05:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
But cypherpunks isn't that great a forum for publishing ideas. Take aReading an unfiltered feed these days is like watching television without a mute button, without a channel change button, without a PVR. In other words, reading an unfiltered feed is a lot like watching television in 1970, when changing the channel meant getting up and walking over to turn a crude knob, when junk and spam was unavoidable.
look at http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/maillist.html to
see the unfiltered list feed. Sure, no subscriber with half a clue
actually sees it like this, but that's how it looks to the outside world.
It's tough to find the nuggets of enlightenment buried amongst the crap.
Blogs without active feedback are just rants. You may find yourself ranting to a handful of people you'll never know, never hear from. Boring.
I'd like to start publishing a blog. But of course given the sensitivity
of my position and the boldness of my arguments, it's important that
there be strong anonymity protection.
And as boring and low-volume as Cypherpunks has become, this is true for most lists. So many proliferated lists, blogs, newsgroups, chat forums, Yahoo groups....
(You could do the Hettinga thing and post to 7 of your own lists, but this is considered tacky in civilized places.)
Offhand, I can think of several ways to do an anonymous blog...posting to alt.anonymous.messages, for starters. Same ability to do stream of conscious writing. Sure, the "immediacy" of some blogs is missing, but posting to Usenet can propagate in tens of minutes, which is comparable to most blogs. And adding anonymity through remailers makes an anonymous blog no more responsive than posting via a mail-to-Usenet gateway.
But the best way would of course be to use a standard Web proxy. Such things have been out for several years.
--Tim May
