From 00e3aa438f7a73feb6b20495a62a2302afcef4a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Busby Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 20:54:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add list eras to 'what is mailing list' --- .../what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/_getting_started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list.md b/_getting_started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list.md index 0035176..7270885 100644 --- a/_getting_started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list.md +++ b/_getting_started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list.md @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ This community inspired a generation of people to start viewing this relatively The modern cryptocurrency space can largely be considered as an offshoot of the community first formed on the Cypherpunks Mailing List. +### Time Periods + +The main eras of the list can roughly be categorised as follows: + ++ 90s Era - _Mainly hosted on toad.com but moving to a distributed archictecture in 1997. Archives are available for this period. Our archive covers this period, as does Ryan Lackey's._ ++ 1997-? - _This [article](https://www.wired.com/1997/02/homeless-cypherpunks-turn-to-usenet/) does suggest that there was a Usenet community at alt.cypherpunks for some time. I can't find any archives of this era and it appears to coincide with the move to the distributed architecture, so it may have just been an explored possibility and not have been very active._ ++ 2000-2013 - _The list operated via a distributed archicture using the Majordomo mailing list software with a peak of 7 nodes. By mid-2005 al-qaeda.net hosted the only remaining node. Mailing list archives are not available for this period although I'm pursuing lines of enquiry that might be able to produce them._ ++ 2013-Present - _Following a brief outage caused by the failure of the al-qaeda.net majordomo installation during a package update, the mailing list was relaunched in July 2013 using GNU Mailman. This meant an end to the distributed architecture, but there had been only one node for 8 years at this point. Mailing list archives for this era are available at [lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/](https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/)._ + +More information about this can be found in a section of the [Cypherpunk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Origin_of_the_term,_and_the_Cypherpunks_mailing_list) Wikipedia page. + ## tl;dr: + Optional reading: [The Cyphernomicon - Cypherpunks Mailing List FAQ](https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.html)