Idea

Although the material is interesting, my mailbox is getting flooded..
perhaps the mail should be compiled into a newsletter or 'zine format
and mailed monthly. Phrack magazine is sent with an automated mailer..
If you want more information.. send requests to root@stormking.com.

 Please seriously consider this, the bulk of mail vs. my time to deal with 
the volume of little messages is limited, and it is much better if it's a monthly o r weekly newsletter which I can download and browse at my leisure. It really is not much work to have a program dump all the mail into a file, then another program send out the file monthly.

>  Although the material is interesting, my mailbox is getting flooded..
> perhaps the mail should be compiled into a newsletter or 'zine format
> and mailed monthly.

I have no problems keeping up with the cypherpunks messages (they form
such a small procentage of my mail anyway), and a good mail reader
definitely helps. But if the messages got digested into huge batches, I
would definitely stop reading them.

	Julf

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> >  Although the material is interesting, my mailbox is getting flooded..
> > perhaps the mail should be compiled into a newsletter or 'zine format
> > and mailed monthly.
> 
> I have no problems keeping up with the cypherpunks messages (they form
> such a small procentage of my mail anyway), and a good mail reader
> definitely helps. But if the messages got digested into huge batches, I
> would definitely stop reading them.

Me to!  I might venture into the table of contents.  If nothing seemed 
interesting there, (and there might be good stuff) I'd simpy hit 'd'.  Don't
digest them!  Thanx.

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> > 
> > >  Although the material is interesting, my mailbox is getting flooded..
> > > perhaps the mail should be compiled into a newsletter or 'zine format
> > > and mailed monthly.
> > 
> > I have no problems keeping up with the cypherpunks messages (they form
> > such a small procentage of my mail anyway), and a good mail reader
> > definitely helps. But if the messages got digested into huge batches, I
> > would definitely stop reading them.
> 
> Me to!  I might venture into the table of contents.  If nothing seemed 
> interesting there, (and there might be good stuff) I'd simpy hit 'd'.  Don't
> digest them!  Thanx.

Perhaps it might make sense to digest them and offer the digest (perhaps
weekly or even a daily digest) as an alternative mirror of the regular
list.  The cypherpunks messages make a small percentage of my mail too, but
when I get a one or two hundred messages a day it is hard for me to keep
track of ongoing discussions in this list and I have a tendency to nuke the
messages outright if the subject doesn't interest me.  Redirecting the
messages to a seperate folder doesn't help much either because I sometimes
don't have the time to check the folder more than once a day and then when
I do check it I spend more time thinking about how to trim the many
messages than anything else...

It is kind of ironic that a list which deals with the dispersal and
protection of information only offers a single, inefficient, method for
accessing that information.  Offering a daily or weekly digest of messages
would be agood thing, IMHO. In addition to making the list accessible to
people who have real jobs or better things to do with thier time during the
day [ :-) ] it would also offer an easy method for archival of messages on
the list (e.g. just store the daily or weekly logs somewhere for ftp...) 

jim

Jim writes:
>It is kind of ironic that a list which deals with the dispersal and
>protection of information only offers a single, inefficient, method for
>accessing that information.  

My main goal for cypherpunks is to get people to defend their own
privacy, rather than relying on someone else to provide it for them.
There were several different methods recently mentioned that allow
people to take control of their own email flow.  I would suggest that
all those who would rather have another way of accessing the list do
so on their own computers.

In addition to all the methods for handling mail mentioned before, the
remailer source code includes a rewrite of slocal in perl done by Hal
Finney.  Available from soda.berkeley.edu:pub/cypherpunks/remailer.

Eric