The cypherpunks lists have been *heavily* spammed lately (as in "subscribed
to several hundred lists"). This is one of the emails discussing the
problem.
How would we [on the Freenet lists] solve it, without Oskar's usual requests
for censorship (in the name of the greater good, of course)?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "Patrick Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: "Survivability of a minarchist society"
> Phaedrus wrote:
>
> >I've been trying to distribute clues to them about the
> >importance of including information about who subscribed x (as in the
> >originating IP, at the very least)
>
> What if that IP traces back to the Freedom network, for example? Have we
as
> cypherpunks created our own monster? Alarmist (Bill Joy) answer: yes, and
we
> need to make it illegal to research advanced cryptographic techniques.
But
> wait, we've already created the technology to make it impossible to
determine if
> this research is even taking place. It's already out of control! This is
> either the beginning of the Golden Age of Self Organization or the end of
the
> world.
>
> That is why our spam problem is such an excellent test case for our
philosophy
> (for those on the list who even knew we had one). And no, I'm not the
spammer.
> :)
