--- Subject: Re: Important Mailing Lists - FOLLOWUP From: David Krider <davidat_private> To: declanat_private Date: 29 May 2003 10:50:49 -0500 Declan, First, I have to say that I was surprised to my actual words appear on the list. I just figured that, if you found the question to be of merit, you would do the asking. I appreciate the opportunity to address your auspicious group at large. Thanks very much. I received several responses, from people whom I'm BCC'ing here. If you paste this back to the list, please leave out this first paragraph. By far, the leader in mindshare among politech readers is "Dave Farber's Interesting People" mailing list. The signup page was really hard to find, though. I started from the bottom of one email in the archive, but then I had to click through a bunch of links to eventually get to the *IP subscription* form, and not the form that would allow me to setup my own list. Here, for the sake of others, is the link: http://www.listbox.com/subscribe/ I don't know how well this will go over, since I'm still trying to get up to speed on your relationship, but... http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/ I watch this one every day already, and highly recommend it: http://www.instapundit.com/ As a propeller-head, this one looks particularly promising. http://www.c4i.org/isn.html Though I'm aquainted with insecure.org, I wasn't aware of their mailing lists page (http://lists.insecure.org/), which has several other intriguing candidates as well, including this other recommended link: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ There's "Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram," to which I am already subscribed, and can verify as great: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html Probably the most promising link I received (selfishly, the best one that *I* didn't have a clue about) was to a site called GrepLaw. It's a little more jurisprudence-heavy than I can digest, but it seems to be a good balance to the law side of the politech list contents. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/ And, wow! This is an information-rich site: http://www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm I don't have a feel for how these will will turn out, but I'm going to give them a go. Read the first page carefully for details on how to get the version of the list you want. Archives are available to browse for both. http://www.lne.com/cpunk/ http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/random-bits I'm going to try to be careful here. I like sites like this, but I got one response that veers very strongly towards the lunatic fringe, and I think that's the nature of it. I'm philosophizing here, not politicizing. These sorts of things seem -- to me -- to be on a slippery slope. On the other hand, it makes finding one that simply presents facts and references raw documents that much more valuable. http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html In that vein, I would submit one of my own. However, because it's *so* thick with raw details of ranging topics, I don't read it much. http://cryptome.org/ This should keep me busy for awhile. I say a HUGE "Thank you" to all who responded. Regards all, dk -- David "Dunkirk" Krider, http://www.davidkrider.com Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." Linux: Will you use the power for good... or for AWESOME? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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