NODE fdc89599Re: cypherpunks as a newsgroup
Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>Sat, 16 Sep 95 13:41:36 PDT
At 03:40 PM 9/16/95 -0400, Ian wrote:
>I've been very impressed with the signal/noise ratio on this list.
>In fact, people often put [NOISE] in the subject line to flag trivial
>content. This ratio will certainly go down if we go to a newsgroup.
I have a group of friends who get forwarded the "best" of the Cypherpunks
list. The signal to noise ratio is high enough that I have to be careful
how much I forward lest I get complaints at the volume of what I forward.
Turning this into an alt group would destroy that.
>One of the main benefits of Usenet is that anyone can _post_.
>One of the main detriments is that _anyone_ can post.
How true.
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NODE b712dff3Re: cypherpunks as a newsgroup
Black Unicorn <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>Sat, 16 Sep 95 14:44:32 PDT
On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, Alan Olsen wrote:
> I have a group of friends who get forwarded the "best" of the Cypherpunks
> list. The signal to noise ratio is high enough that I have to be careful
> how much I forward lest I get complaints at the volume of what I forward.
> Turning this into an alt group would destroy that.
I don't understand this tendency to want to TURN the list into anything.
Leave the list, and start an alt.* group if you like.
I prefer the list, but will look at the group from time to time.
Why must this be an either/or choice?
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