On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:50:51AM -0500, V Alex Brennen wrote: > I don't even plan on subscribing myself. I just wanted to get > the traffic off of cypherpunks.
Fair enough. You can remove the list, as far as I'm concerned. I don't give a damn about posting copyrighted content; no point posting to a closed-archive list if you've got cold feet. I can hide that information on my own hard drive as well. > Back when I first joined this list, cypherpunks where > known for making news, not reading it. I recognized some The world has moved on since, unfortunately. Wake up, and smell the Kafka. > addresses posting here recently from other lists that may > suggest a revival is possible if we can clean things up a > bit. Yeah, you and John Galt. > For the most part, the only people who subscribed to the > new list are the people who tend to forward news > announcements. There seems to be very few consumers Which part of "collaborative news filtering" you don't understand? Ideally, one should a producer and consumer in one person. Alas, most people are passive slobs, so it takes a lot of them to become critical. > (4 out of 7 subscribers on the new list - there's 8 total > so far, one person subscribed twice). Transhumantech has 300 subscribers. Five of them are active posters. I consider the list a success, and read it daily. It took several years to get there. Cypherpunk agenda is supposed to be a _widely_ held secret. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]