Noise on the list

Would it be incorrect to say that people flailing randomly on the list
trying to invent the next great encryption scheme is both a waste of
bandwidth, and inappropriate to the list?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I see cypherpunks as a
gathering of people trying to encourage privacy via technology.  As
such, technical discussions of how to implement a remailer would be
appropriate, but it seems that garbage about how to make MacBeth
decrypt into your plaintext should be reserved for sci.crypt.flame.
There's also a lot of other inappropriate traffic, like the recent
"espionage" thread.  Save it for talk.bizarre.

Should I crawl back into my hole, or am I not the only one who thinks
that a lot of the random spewage on the list is just that?

(flame off)

I think this is a valuable list.  I like being on it, most of the
time.  But we've already seen many people remove themselves because
they were drowning in email.  Can we please try to keep the messages
appropriate, and the signal-to-noise ratio high?

		Marc

> I think this is a valuable list.  I like being on it, most of the
> time.  But we've already seen many people remove themselves because
> they were drowning in email.  Can we please try to keep the messages
> appropriate, and the signal-to-noise ratio high?

Of all the lists I'm subscribed to, this is the only one that I read
*every* article in.  Even the "noise" articles.  Humans being what
they are, the noise is needed to help decide the direction of the
group.  Besides, for those of us who are just starting on our journey
through crypto-underworld need the noise to help familiarize
ourselves with how crypto works.  I've learned more from the informal
ramblings than I've gathered out of all the formal and/or mathematical
postings to date.

I don't mind tech... but let's not do away with the noise either.
Thanks.

One persons opinion.

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