At 1:16 AM -0400 5/2/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>At 19:01 4/28/2000 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
>>But I see the trend continuing, especially now that email marketing
>>is in vogue... and by marketing here I do mean your list, or Declans's
>>or Hettinga's or Schneier's. It's in your interest to make your list reach
>>as far as possible, and mildly annoying a few people on the way
>>isn't going to keep you from cross-posting it.
>
>I rise to the defense of my list (http://www.politechbot.com/) If
>people want to read my stuff, they can come to my site or join the
>list. I don't habitually send articles from it to cypherpunks. I
>will occasionally forward an article I write that is
>cypherpunk-relevant, but you can deal with that, I'm sure.
I rise to Declan's defense, too. He is pretty careful to only forward
selected articles, and he usually only includes excerpts, with the
URL for those who want to pursue the topic in detail.
Not so folks like J-F Avon, who forwards obscure Canadian and
Australian gun rights articles to a dozen or more mailing lists, with
no apparent awareness or concern about whether what he is forwarding
is of any interest whatsoever. (In fact, he cheerfully admits he is
not subscribed to Cypherpunks because he cannot keep up with the
volume...and yet he adds the CP list to his list of a dozen or more
cc: addresses for his "Report from the Queensland Ministers on
AU-433, Preliminary Reading on the Regulation of Sub-7mm Pellet
Sizes.)
No so Bill Payne, who cc:s a dozen mailing lists on his psychotic rants.
Not so Matthew Gaylor, who bombards Cyberial-L, Cypherpunks,
Fight-Censorship, and other mailing lists with reposted articles
available with any browser.
Fuck them all. Then burn the corpses.
--Tim May
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W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
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