laupäev, 10. august 2013 12:38.29 UTC+3 kirjutas Ron Gross:
Personally I think that Google Groups are the best solution nowadays for such mailing lists. The archives are essential.
Creating a google account isn't such a huge pain - people could create one and just use it for this mailing list ... what's the big deal?
I'm a little bit sorry for my tone right now, but MY GOD, You people are developing
an anti-censorship software and falling for the comfort and features of one of
the most prominent privacy violators!!!
Case You are wondering, why did I dare to join this mailing list at all,
specially given that the tor developers are being actively harassed
and it's smart to keep one's distance from people,
who prefer to be extra listed at some "hacker conference"
by the least intelligent lot of the employees of various
"No Such Agencies", then the answer is that my activity
has been quite public for quite some time and I want
the developers of this project to be aware of the
following, very simplistic, specification (that I self wrote):
The home page of my project, Silktorrent, can be reached by
the redirection of the address
The Cryptosphere would be one tunnel out of many for Silktorrent. What regards
to an alternative to the Google Groups, then I recommend
It has a "mailing list" feature. It's main down-side is an out-dated GUI that piles all messages to a single flow, but that can probably be tolerated to some extent. To keep the messages flowing, a client that can decrypt the mailing list messages must be running 24/7 and I do not promise that I keep the
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working, but it is one possible alternative.
Given the similarities between the Cryptosphere and Silktorrent,
I offer a mailing list service
namely:
from my personal web page account. My home page has been hosted by
an Estonian hosting service,
for years and I'm very satisfied with their service. (I do not work there, nor do they
pay me to advertise them, not to mention the fact that they do not
even have an English page, because they target only the small Estonian market.)
free to use it, for years. It has a public archive:
will probably stay up with really good reliability. Also, a thing
to note is that the servers reside outside of the U.S., in Estonia.
The bad news is that Estonia is a poodle of the U.S. and
has its own censorship issues, as I have described at
not to mention the great power that U.S. corporations
can have:
but, I do say that Estonian hosting services are far better
and far more reliable than German or U.S. hosting services.
That's mainly because the Estonian law enforcement is not funded
that well and the politicians understand that if they start
messing with the various internet service related parties too
heavily, then that has practical, economic, consequences
that will hit tax revenue. A black humor is that some
hosting service providers specialize on providing
hosting service to Saint Petersburg companies by
advertizing themselves as being "high quality hosting
provider right at the other side of the Russian border,
outside of the Putin's reach, in European Union".
So, add to the mix the fact that Snowden needed to
flee to Russia to expose the atrocities of Washington, yet
the creator of Russian Facebook had to flee FROM Russia,
because
and to make things even more interesting, people have
had to fee even from Switzerland to the U.S.
The fact that a Russian propaganda channel criticises
the brits, I think rightfully, for working on a total ban on
strong crypto
while even the weak crypto, including the one used
in old cellphones has been officially banned in Russia
for decades, just adds color to the mix.
So the only chance seems to be to play on the inability
of different governments to cooperate, use InterPol, because
clearly, with the oppinions of the EU leaders, there is no
place on planet Earth left, where the top government officials
would actually accept free press, privacy, the use of cryptography.
Well, thank You for reading and I hope that the e-mail list that
I have created, will be useful. Technically speaking, at the time
of writing this comment it's up and operational.
:-)