Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 17:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: many people
Subject: Online Activism Resource List 2.09
Online Activism Resource List 2.09
==================================
An EFF FAQ by Stanton McCandlish
Updated: 09/16/94
Archived at: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/activ_resource.faq
A list of Usenet newsgroups, Internet mailing lists and other resources of
use to the online activist. Includes activism forums, and topical forums
(computing futures, access to govt. info, privacy and censorship, regional
politics, NII/GII/"Data Superhighway" issues, virtual community, civil
liberties & human rights, etc.) The list focuses on 1) activism about
online issues like those topics mentioned above, and 2) general activism
strategies and tools available online. The listing of all activism issues
(e.g. [non-]smokers' rights, environmentalism, gun ownership/regulation, etc.)
and partisan politics specifics, is outside the scope of this list.
See also /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/activ_groups.faq, the Online Activism
Organizations List.
NOTE: This resource list is in "larval" stage, and should be expanded greatly
at some point. A new maintainer for this FAQ is needed. Let mech@eff.org
know if interested.
IMPORTANT: subscribe commands and the like, when given in quotes mean
"type this command, but without the quotes." Example:
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe effector-online"
means to send an Internet email message to listserv@eff.org, with a
message body consisting of the single line:
subscribe effector-online
without the "quotes".
Gopher resources are, when possible, pointed to with full paths, rather than
menu names. If you gopher client cannot handle path (directory names),
please ask the producers of this software to add support for paths, and URLs,
in their next version.
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CONTENTS
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RECENT CHANGES
RESOURCE LISTINGS
INTERNET/BITNET MAILING LISTS & E-PUBS AVAILABLE VIA MAILING LISTS
USENET (NETNEWS) NEWSGROUPS
BBS NETWORK CONFERENCES
ONLINE SERVICES
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
OTHER RESOURCES
ADMINISTRIVIA
Recent Changes
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2.09 - updated many entries, and made format consistent. NOTE: many entries
are nothing but "shells", giving address and very short descriptions.
IF YOU ARE A LIST ADMIN: please feel free to write your own entry,
and mail it to me at mech@eff.org so your entry is correct and
complete. IF YOU KNOW OF SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST:
Please send info on it - formatted as an entry for the list
preferably. It takes a lot more time and effort to maintain this
list than you might think.
2.08 - added FTPmail section; added InterNIC Directory and Database
Services Mail Server; added NSF Network News; removed nat-bbs list
(sponsoring organization, NOMA, appears to be defunct.); added
Scout Report
2.07 - added Educom Update (combined entry with EduPage)
2.06 - added EduPage & Cable Reg. Digest; major update to Computer underground
Digest entry; updated Cybermind entry; added Patent Titles Email Server
2.05 - added Cybermind
2.04 - added PACS-L, PACS-R and PACS-N
2.03 - added several mailing lists, mostly for FAQs & other periodic net.docs
2.02 - added several mailing lists, mostly for FAQs & other periodic net.docs
2.01 - added Loka-L mailing list
2.00 - added some new material, moved "Cyberspace" items from outposts.faq
(a.k.a. activ_groups.faq) to this list. Began adding descriptions
(items with descriptions are bulleted with *'s)
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RESOURCE LISTINGS
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INTERNET/BITNET MAILING LISTS & E-PUBS AVAILABLE VIA MAILING LISTS
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* 2600@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (2600 Mag. hacker list)
* AAASHRAN%GWUVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU (AAAS Human Rights Action Network)
* activ-l@mizzou1.bitnet (= alt.activism.d)
* alaoif@uicvm.uic.edu (Am. Library Assoc. intellec. freedom)
(subscribe: Email to "listserv@uicvm.uic.edu"
with line "sub alaoif "
* alert@washofc.cpsr.org (CPSR news)
* Cable Regulation Digest
A newsletter of short articles about cable tv and telecom regulatory issues,
of definite relevance to anyone tracking the unfolding of the NII/"Data
Superhighway" issues.
General: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org.
Subscribe: listserver@realy.adp.wisc.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE
TELECOMREG "[no quotes; NOTE: TELECOMREG
is a general discussion list to which CRD is sent, not a
CRD-only list]
FTP: ftp.vortex.com, /tv-film-video/cable-reg/
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/Cable_Reg/
Gopher: vortext.com, 1/tv-film-video/cable-reg
gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/E-journals/Cable_Reg
WWW: gopher://vortex.com:70/11/tv-film-video
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/Cable_Reg/
Finger: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org
* calgovinfo@cpsr.org
* COMMUNET
Mailing list for discussion of community and civic networks.
Subscribe requests: listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu, listproc@moose.uvm.edu
(subscribe COMMUNET )
* COMMUNITY-ACCESS
Mailing list for discussion of community access issues
Subscribe requests: community-access-request@parc.xerox.com
(subscribe COMMUNITY-ACCESS )
* Computer PRIVACY Digest (CPD) (ex- Telecom Privacy Digest)
Like RISKS, a moderated digest-format electronic newsletter. It is
more open that RISKS or PFD, "and was established to provide a forum
for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy. All too often
technology is way ahead of the law and society as it presents us with
new devices and applications. Technology can enhance and detract from
privacy."
Subscribe requests: comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu
* Computer underground Digest (CuD)
Cu-Digest, or CuD, is a more-or-less-weekly on-line electronic
journal/news digest. The Digest is intended as a forum for the
discussion of legal, ethical, social, and other issues regarding
computerized information and communications. We welcome contributions
reflecting diversity of thought and perspective, focussed on the
computer/telecommunications culture including BBSes, Internet, and
public access systems. CuD is focussed especially on alternative groups
that exist outside of the conventional net community.
General: Jim Thomas
Archivist: cudarch@eff.org
Subscribe, Internet: listserv@vmd.cs.uiuc.edu, message body: "SUB CUDIGEST
" [no quotes]
Subscribe, BITNET: listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet, message body: "SUB CUDIGEST
" [no quotes]
BITNET: tk0jut2@niu.bitnet <- NOTE: That ^ is tkZEROjut2 not tkOHjut2
Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest
ftp: ftp.eff.org, pub/Publications/CuD/CuD/
wuarchive.wustl.edu, /pub/doc/EFF/Publications/CUD/
uceng.uc.edu, /pub/wuarchive/doc/EFF/Publications/CUD/
ftp.glocom.ac.jp, /mirror/ftp.eff.org/Publications/CUD/
etext.archive.umich.edu (141.211.164.18), /pub/CuD/
aql.gatech.edu (128.61.10.53), /pub/eff/cud/
ftp.halcyon.com (192.135.191.2), /pub/disk1/cud/
nic.funet.fi, /pub/doc/cud/
gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/CuD/CuD
www: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/CuD/
BBS: USA - RIPCO - +1 312 528 5020
Rune Stone IIRGWHQ - +1 203 832 8441
Luxembourg - ComNet - +352 466893
Italy - Empire - +39 461 980493
Belgium - Virtual Access - +32 69 45 51 77
FidoNet FREQ: 1:11/70 (unlisted nodes/points welcome)
CompuServe: IBMBBS SIG, DL0 & DL4; LAWSIG, DL1; TELECOM, DL1
GEnie: PF*NPC RT library and VIRUS/SECURITY library.
AOL: PC Telecom forum, Computing Newsletters library
Delphi: Internet SIG, General Discussion database
Voice +1 815 753 0303
Fax: +1 815 753 6302
Jim Thomas, Editor
Department of Sociology, NIU
DeKalb IL 60115 USA.
* Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF)
CAF is a list/newsgroup/archive devoted to issues of computing,
freedom of expression, and privacy, especially in relation to the edu-
cational and academic communities. CAF is available in several forms,
is archived, and has been provided storage space by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation for a collection of related important documents.
comp-academic-freedom-talk (caf-talk) is the interactive discussion
version of the list. comp-academic-freedom-batch is a digested version
that presents each day's contributions as a single compilation, rather
that a continuous stream of incoming separate messages.
comp-academic-freedom-news is a digested version featuring a weekly
sample of the most important messages. comp-academic-freedom-abstracts
is a weekly digest containing only abstracts rather than the full text
of the list. For more detailed information on the versions, send a message
body of "LONGINDEX" to listserv@eff.org.
General (editors): Bill Arnold
Carl Kadie
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
Archivists: Jonathan Greenfield
Carl Kadie
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe
comp-academic-freedom-*" (replace "*" with "talk", "batch",
"news" or "abstracts", as apropos for this version you want.)
* cni-modernization@cni.org (some sort of net.commerce stuff)
* cwd-l@cyberwerks.com (Brock Meeks' CyberWire Dispatch news)
(subcribe: email to majordomo@cyberwerks.com)
with line "subscribe cwd-l")
* Cybermind
"An electronic forum for the discussion of the philosophical and
psychological implications of subjectivity in cyberspace...We are
interested in particular in the philosophical, psychological/
psychoanalytic and social issues engendered, particularly as they concern
the user and the social [realm]...: the psychology of intimacy, the role
of gender, the phenomenology of the terminal screen, neurosis and
paranoia on the Net, the relationship of lag to community and communi-
cation, sex/gender/sexual orientation theory and electronic subjectivity,
the role of the symbolic or imaginary in computer communication, the
implications of symbolic extensions of the human ("external memory", and
so forth), fantasy and the hallucinatory aspects of email/USENET
groups/MUDs, and the psychoanalysis of lurking.
General: Alan Sondheim
Subscribe: majordomo@world.std.com, message body: "subscribe cybermind
" [no quotes]
* Cypherpunks
The Cypherpunks mailing lists exist for those interested in cryptography
and it's political rammifications, programming encryption software,
creation of digital cash and electronic banking via secure (and
anonymous) crypto tech, local crypto-oriented activism, hacking cypher
hardware, and more. There also tends to be much libertarian/
anarcho-capitalist debate as well. The main list is fairly high-traffic.
The UK branch generally goes by the name of UK Crypto-Privacy Assoc.,
and like some of the other local sub-groups, has face-to-face meetings.
The CypherWonks list is a split-off that is generally opposed to the
anarchic stance of some on the main list. I have no info at the moment
on the local groups, other than the Austin & Boston Cypherpunks,
so if anyone has info to pass on please do so.
Main general: hughes@ah.com
Main subscribe requests: cypherpunks-request@toad.com
Main FTP: soda.berkeley.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/ (many mirrors exist)
Main gopher: chaos.bsu.edu
Main gopher admin: Karl Lui Barrus
Hardware general: J.D. Blair
Hardware requests: cp-hardware-request@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu
Austin general: Jim McCoy
Doug Barnes
Austin req.: austin-cypherpunks-request@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
austin-cypherpunks-announce-request@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
Austin FTP: ftp.cc.utexas.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/
Boston requests: cypherpunks-east-request@mit.edu
Boston general: Derek Atkins
Wonks general: cypherwonks-owner@lassie.eunet.fi
Wonks requests: majordomo@lists.eunet.fi (message body of:
subscribe cypherwonks)
* dc-nets@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu (cryptographic networking protocols)
* EDLAW@UKCC.UKY.EDU
* EduPage & Educom Update
Newsletters of informative and timely summaries of new technological
developments and the effects of computer and information tech-
nology on education, published by Educom, "a consortium of leading
colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of
information technology." Even if you are not interested in education
issues, this is a valuable (though free) service, and tracks a wide range
of comms, computing, market, regulatory and legal issues. EduPage comes
out several times per week, while Update is a bi-weekly summary.
General: info@ivory.educom.edu
Subscribe (EduPage): listproc@educom.edu, message body: "subscribe edupage
" [no quotes]
Subscribe (Update): listproc@educom.edu, message body: "subscribe update
" [no quotes]
Portugese/Spanish versions: ask edunews@nc-rj.rnp.br
* efa@iinet.com.au (EF-Australia; = aus.org.efa newsgroup/EFA Fido echo)
* EFF-Activists / ACTION
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's forum for online activism and
grassroots political action through networking. Focuses on cooperative
discussion between activists and organizations, the devising and completion
of projects supporting electronic advocacy and democracy, and postings of
important news for the online communications and political action
communities. NOTE: This list is about to undergo a major tranformation,
and will emerge as a non-organization-specific, more tightly focused
list called ACTION. To see the draft charter and FAQ for this list,
see ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/ACTION/ - expect this change to
occur by Sept. 20 at the latest. The entire list is not archived, but
important materials will be archived on *.eff.org in the Activism directory
and/or other appropriate areas, while list-specific material will be
archived in the ACTION subdirectory of Activism. See below for complete
paths & URLs.
General admin: ask@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF info: info@eff.org
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe eff-activists"
listserv@eff.org, "subscribe action" after Sept. 20
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/[ACTION/]
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Issues/Activism[/ACTION]
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/[ACTION/]
* eff-austin@tic.com
* EFF-News
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's distribution for EFF newsletters and
press releases and other items of note. This is a moderated list/newsgroup
that does not allow posts from readers (such postings are redirected to
EFF-Talk). EFF-News is a low-traffic list/group, and features each issue
of EFFector Online newsletter, as well as announcements, summaries of
hearings and conferences, testimony transcripts, etc. A newsletter-only
list is also available.
General admin: editor@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF info: info@eff.org
Subscribe (full News list): listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe
comp-org-eff-news"
Subscribe (EFFector Online only): listserv@eff.org, message body:
"subscribe effector-online"
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/
ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/
[For topic-sorted archives of news items, see Policy subdirectories; for
newsletter backissues, see EFFector directory.]
* EFF-Talk
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's general discussion forum -
focuses on EFF policy, cyberspace legal issues, the "data superhighway",
networking and activism, and computing futures and potential. EFF-Talk
is available as a Usenet newsgroup, a mailing list, and, in some areas,
a FidoNet echomail conference. EFF is a 501(c)(3) US non-profit
organization devoted to civil liberties in computing and communications.
As with comp.org.eff.news, this newsgroup/list is not archived in full,
but important documents are placed in EFF's online library in the Policy
(a.k.a. Issues) directory. See below for full paths and URLs.
General admin: ask@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF Info: info@eff.org
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-talk"
Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk
FidoNet: Zone 1 - INET.EFF.TALK (not backboned; feed nodes unknown)
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/
* EFFector Online
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's newsletter, EFFector
Online (frequency: 1-4 per month), a small journal summarizing important
issues of civil liberties in cyberspace. Frequently reports on methods
of access to government representatives and info, legal cases of relevance
to online communications, activism, "data superhighway" politics, Senate
and House hearing testimony, cryptography and privacy, and threat to civil
liberties. This is a moderated list/newsgroup that does not allow
posts from readers. EFFector Online is a low-traffic list. The EFF-News
list carries EFFector, but also includes press releases, hearing summaries,
and other relevant documents.
General admin: editor@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF info: info@eff.org
Subscribe (EFFector Online only): listserv@eff.org, message body:
"subscribe effector-online"
Subscribe (full News list): listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe
comp-org-eff-news"
* efn@oslonett.no (EF-Norway)
* efj@twics.com (EF-Japan)
* efnh-discuss@mv.MV.COM (EF New Hampshire)
* The Faxing From the Internet FAQ
A list of Frequently Asked Questions & answers about using the Internet
to send faxes (fast, free to the user [no long distance call!], and great
for activist use); issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By
Kevin Savetz.
Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe fax-faq" [no quotes]
FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send fax-faq" [no quotes]
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Technical/net-fax.faq
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Technical, net_fax.faq
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Technical/net_fax.faq
Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)
* fringeware@io.com (general "interesting stuff" list, w/ fringe feel to it)
* FUTUREC@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (FutureCulture)
* gaynet (Gay/bisexual issues)
(subscribe: Email to "listserv@queernet.org"
with line "sub gaynet "
* GOVDOC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Discussion of Government Document Issues)
* hott-list@UCSD.EDU (Hot Off the Press e-pub; networking issues)
* ifreedom@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.CA (intellectual freedom)
(subscribe: Email to "listserv@snoopy.ucis.dal.ca"
with line "sub ifreedom "
* imp-interest@thumper.bellcore.com (Internet Mercantile Protocol)
* INTCAR-L@american.edu (computer assisted reporting outside the United States)
(subscribe: Email to listserv@american.edu,
with line "SUBSCRIBE INTCAR-L "
* The Internet Press
A list of electronic publications about Internet/Usenet, issued as a
periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz & John M. Higgins.
Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe ipress" [no quotes]
FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send ipress" [no quotes]
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_epub.list
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_epub.list
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_epub.list
Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)
* The Internet Services FAQ
A list of interesting and useful services and resources on the internet,
issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz.
Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe is-faq" [no quotes]
FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send is-faq" [no quotes]
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_services.faq
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_services.faq
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_services.faq
Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)
* interpedia@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Internet encyclopedia project)
* IPCT-L@GUVM.CCF.GEORGETOWN.EDU (interpersonal computing & technology)
* Loka-L
An occasional series of electronic postings on democratic politics of
science and technology, issued by The Loka Institute.
Subscribe requests: ? listserv@amherst.edu ?
Admin: resclove@amherst.edu
* Minnesota Politics & Public Policy E-Mail Forum (MN-POLITICS)
MN-POLITICS is an unmoderated Internet electronic-mail list for the sharing
of information on and discussion of Minnesota politics and public policy.
Members of this forum are encouraged to contribute campaign and election
information, announcements from Minnesota-focused political and civic
organizations, public policy and legislative information, and presentations
on issues of public interest. MN-POLITICS is associated with the Minnesota
E-Democracy Project.
Subscribe requests: majordomo@mr.net, message body: subscribe mn-politics
Admin: Mick Souder
* net-happenings@is.internic.net (general "interesting stuff" list)
Usenet: comp.internet.net-happenings
* Net-Letter Guide
A periodical & frequently updated list of "newsy periodicals available
through the Internet." By John Higgins.
Subscribe: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org, subject: SUBSCRIBE NET-LETTER
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/e-zines.list
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Net_info/Resources, e-zines.list
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/e-zines.list
* NETWORKS and COMMUNITY
A weekly newsletter of information relevant to community networking
issues, as well as interesting and useful pointers to Internet resources.
Subscribe/Info: cvington@netcom.com (request to be added to N&C list)
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/Net_Com/
Gopher: gopher.well.com, 1/Community/communets/net.com
gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/E-journals/Net_Com
WWW: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/Community/communets/net.com/
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/Net_Com/
* nii_agenda@civicnet.org
* niiregional-l@rain.org
* NSF Network News
NSF Network News, ISSN # 1072-5172 is published bimonthly in electronic
and hard copy formats by InterNIC. The goal of this publication is to
educate Internet users about network issues, resources, and tools;
announce new and innovative uses of the Internet; and inform the
Internet community of the activities of the InterNIC. Domestic
subscriptions: Free. International hardcopy subscriptions: $30/year for
postage and handling.
Subscribe: newsletter-request@internic.net
FTP: ???
FTPmail: mailserv@ds.internic.net, message body: ???
Gopher: ???
WWW: ???
WAIS: ???
Telnet: ???
* pem-dev@tis.com (Privacy Enchanced Mailer developers)
* PRIVACY Forum Digest (PFD)
Like RISKS, a rather selectively moderated digest. "It spans the full
range of both technological and non-technological privacy-related issues
(with an emphasis on the former)." Moderated by Lauren Weinstein.
Info: privacy-request@vortex.com [msg. body: information privacy]
Subscribe requests: privacy-request@vortex.com [message body:
subscribe privacy ]
* Public-Access Computer Systems Forum (PACS-L), Review (PACS-R), News
(PACS-N)
PACS-L is an Internet list that deals with all computer systems that
libraries make available to their patrons. While many users are
librarians, PACS-L also serves computer specialists, faculty members, and
others. The list was founded in June 1989. Currently, there are over
8,270 users in 64 countries. Moderated, archived. The University of
Houston Libraries provides PACS-L as a public service. Also available:
PACS-R, a refereed e-journal (also available by volume in book form);
PACS-N, an online newsletter, is sent out on the PACS-L list and
is available as archived files.
General (PACS-L): pacs-l@uhupvm1.uh.edu
General (PACS-R): Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
General (PACS-N): Dana Rooks
Subscribe (PACS-L): listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu (message body: "SUBSCRIBE PACS-L
" [no quotes, all on 1 line])
Subscribe (PACS-R & PACS-N only): same address (message body "SUBSCRIBE
PACS-P ")
List database search (email): same address (message body "INFO DATABASE")
List database search (telnet): a.cni.org (login: brsuser)
FTPmail: listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu (message body: "INDEX PACS-L F=MAIL")
Gopher info.lib.uh.edu, 1/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary
WWW: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/11/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary
* PUBPOL-L%UMINN1.bitnet@VM42.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Public Policy Graduate Studies
Net)
* RISKS Forum Digest (RFD)
Risks is an online newsletter of sorts, the "forum on risks to the
public in computers and related systems" of the ACM Committee on
Computers and Public Policy. Risks is a wealth of information and
banter about various issues surrounding computers, communications and
networking, and is moderated by Peter G. Neumann.
Subscribe requests: risks-request@csl.sri.com (subscribe risks [name])
Usenet: comp.risks
FTP: crvax.sri.com, cd RISKS: [Note the colon. To get back issues,
"GET RISKS-i.j" where i = volume 1 to 15, j = issue,
always 2 digits. Issue 00 is always a summary of the selected
volume. crvax.sri.com = 128.18.30.65.]
Voice: +1 818 225 2800 [to inquire about fax'd issues ONLY]
+1 415 859 2375, Peter G. Neumann [last resort!]
Fax: +1 818 225 7203 [issues are avail. via fax]
* roundtable@cni.org (CNI's discussion list)
* rre@weber.ucsd.edu (Red Rock Eater, a list for informational forwards &
other resource materials, many of which are of interest to online activists)
(subscribe: email to rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu,
with line "subscribe ")
* Scout Report
The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services' "Info Scout", to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to
know what's new on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources
thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers
and educators, however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no
associated fees. Over 10,000 subscribers.
Subscribe: majordomo@is.internic.net, message body: "subscribe scout-report"
("subscribe scout-report-html" to get WWW version for local use)
FTP: is.internic.net, /infoguide/scout-report/
FTPmail: mailserv@is.internic.net, message body: "send /scout-report/[date]"
(replace "[date]" with date of issue, e.g.: /scout-report/9-16-94)
Gopher: is.internic.net, 1/infoguide/scout-report
WWW: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
* sea-list@panix.com, sea-legal@panix.com, etc. (Soc. for Electronic Access)
* tap-info@essential.org (Taxpayer Assets Project bulletins)
* thesegroups
This list is for organizers of local and other electronic activist
groups and activities. The focus is on public policy, civil liberties,
and community related to computing, telecommunications, and computer
networks. This list is not public, and not all subscription requests
are accepted. For a discussion list about electronic communities,
try COMMUNET. If you do ask to subscribe to thesegroups, please
say where you heard of it, or who sent you.
Subscription requests: thesegroups-request@tic.com
* The Unofficial Internet Book List
A list of books about Internet/Usenet, issued as a periodical, and
regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz.
Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe booklist" [no quotes]
FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send booklist" [no quotes]
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_book.list
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_book.list
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_book.list
Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)
* usnonprofit-l@rain.org
* utah-libs@xmission.com (Utah civil liberities and LIbertarian list)
(subscribe: majordomo@xmission.com, "subscribe utah-libs")
* vtw-list@panix.com (lobbying efforts for privacy, networking, NII issues)
Use any mailreader, such as elm, pine, eudora, etc., to participate in
mailing lists. To subscribe, try mailing to [listname]-request@[address].
Failing that, try listserv@[address], majordomo@[address],
listserver@[address], listproc@[address], and finally
owner-[listname]@address or [listname]-owner@[address]. Never send
subscribe requests to the list itself; this does nothing but irritate people.
The subscribe command is usually SUBSCRIBE [listname] [your first name]
[your last name]; failing that, try SUBSCRIBE [listname], SUBSCRIBE
[listname] [your email address], SUBSCRIBE [your email address] [listname].
If all else fails, try replacing "SUBSCRIBE" with "ADD", "JOIN" or "SUB".
If you still can't get on the list, try sending "HELP" to one or more of
the addresses, putting the command on the subject line instead of in the
message body, and it you still can't get on this list, ask
postmaster@[address] for help. You can also send a note to all the
listserver authors you can find and ask them to cooperate with
other authors to standardize, before we all go crazy. ;)
USENET (NETNEWS) NEWSGROUPS
---------------------------
* alt.2600
* alt.activism
* alt.activism.d (= activ-l mailing list)
* alt.bbs.allsysop
* alt.best.of.internet
* alt.censorship
* alt.comp.acad-freedom.news (= digested version of CAF list)
* alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk (= misc. version of CAF list avail. from eff.org)
* alt.conspiracy >;)
* alt.culture.internet
* alt.cyberpunk
* alt.cyberpunk.movement
* alt.cyberspace
* alt.dear.whitehouse
* alt.freedom.of.information.act
* alt.internet.services
* alt.life.internet
* alt.motherjones
* alt.politics.clinton
* alt.politics.datahighway
* alt.politics.ec
* alt.politics.economics
* alt.politics.elections
* alt.politics.europe.misc
* alt.politics.libertarian
* alt.politics.media
* alt.politics.org.misc
* alt.politics.org.nsa
* alt.politics.reform
* alt.politics.usa.constitution
* alt.politics.usa.misc
* alt.president.clinton
* alt.privacy
* alt.privacy.anon-server
* alt.privacy.clipper
* alt.security
* alt.security.pgp
* alt.society.civil-liberties
* alt.society.civil-liberty
* alt.society.resistance
* alt.wired
* aus.legal
* aus.legal (= AUST_LEGAL Fido echo)
* aus.org.efa (EF-Australia, = efa@iinet.com.au list/EFA Fido echo)
* aus.politics
* austin.politics
* ba.internet
* ba.politics
* ba.smartvalley
* bit.listserv.politics (= politics@villvm.bitnet list)
* ca.govt-bulletins
* can.infobahn
* can.infohighway
* can.politics
* clari.news.politics
* clari.news.politics.people
* comp.bbs.misc
* comp.dcom.telecom
* comp.internet.net-happenings = net-happenings@is.internic.net list
* comp.org.cpsr.announce
* comp.org.cpsr.talk
* comp.org.eff.news
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's distribution for EFF newsletters and
press releases and other items of note. This is a moderated newsgroup/list
that does not allow posts from readers (such postings are redirected to
comp.org.eff.talk). EFF-News is a low-traffic group/list, and features each
issue of EFFector Online newsletter, as well as announcements, summaries of
hearings and conferences, testimony transcripts, etc.
General admin: editor@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF info: info@eff.org
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-news"
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/
ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/
[For topic-sorted archives of news items, see Policy subdirectories; for
newsletter backissues, see EFFector directory.]
* comp.org.eff.talk
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's general discussion forum -
focuses on EFF policy, cyberspace legal issues, the "data superhighway",
networking and activism, and computing futures and potential. comp.org
eff.talk is also available as a mailing list, and, in some areas,
a FidoNet echomail conference. EFF is a 501(c)(3) US non-profit
organization devoted to civil liberties in computing and communications.
As with comp.org.eff.news, this newsgroup/list is not archived in full,
but important documents are placed in EFF's online library in the Policy
(a.k.a. Issues) directory. See below for full paths and URLs.
General admin: ask@eff.org
Technical admin: eff@eff.org
EFF Info: info@eff.org
Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-talk"
Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk
FidoNet: Zone 1 - INET.EFF.TALK (not backboned; feed nodes unknown)
FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/
Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy
WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/
* comp.org.fidonet
* comp.risks (RISKS Forum Digest)
(See RISKS Forum Digest in mailing lists section for more info.)
* comp.security.unix
* comp.society
* comp.society.cu-digest (CuD)
(See Computer underground Digest in mailing lists section for more info.)
* comp.society.futures
* comp.society.privacy (PRIVACY Forum Digest)
* misc.activism.progressive
* misc.consumers
* misc.headlines
* misc.legal
* misc.legal.moderated
* ne.politics
* rec.video.desktop
* sci.crypt
* sci.med.telemedicine
* soc.politics
* soc.rights.human
* talk.politics.crypto
* talk.politics.medicine
* talk.politics.misc
* uk.org.community (CommUnity, an EFF-like org. in Britain)
* uk.politics
Use a newsreader, such as nn, rn, trn, strn, nuntius, xrn, etc. to access
Usenet newsgroups. Users of Delphi and some other commercial online systems
can also access Usenet via features built into such systems.
BBS NETWORK CONFERENCES
-----------------------
FidoNet:
* AUST_LEGAL (FidoNet zone 3; = aus.legal newsgroup)
* EFA (FidoNet zone 3; EF-Australia, = efa@iinet.com.au/aus.org.efa)
* R_U_NEXT (FidoNet zone 3)
* INET.EFF.TALK (FidoNet zone 1; non-backbone gate of comp.org.eff.talk)
[many more need to be added]
ONLINE SERVICES
---------------
* Women's WIRE
Online service focusing on women and women's issues. Hosts online
resources of more than 15 women's-interest and other nonprofit groups,
through the Organization Access feature, which offers direct access
to nonprofit organizations and professional associations. Among the
first groups to contribute to this electronic clearinghouse are The
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Alumnae Resources, Women's
Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco Commission on the Status of
Women, several chapters of the National Organization for Women, Students
Organizing Students, National Education Center for Women in Business,
and the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project. By entering the organizations'
virtual doors, users gain access to up-to-date action aslerts, calendar,
newsletters, resources and expert advice on health, politics, careers
and more. WWIRE is a subscriber-only service. Listing here is not
an endorsement or recommendation of the service, just a notice that
activist-oriented resources may be located here.
General: info@wwire.net
Subscription: subscribe@wwire.net (mail here to get SprintNet
numbers and a starter kit [Mac or Win3.1])
Telnet: wwire.net
Voice: +1 415 615 8989
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
----------------------
** FTP Sites **
* ftp.eff.org (ftp://ftp.eff.org/) - Electronic Frontier Foundation
* ftp.eff.org, /pub/CAF (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/) - Computers & Academic
Freedom
* bell.com - MFJ Task Force archives of telecom regulatory issues
** Gopher Sites **
* gopher.eff.org (gopher://gopher.eff.org/) - Electronic Frontier Foundation
* gopher.eff.org, 1/CAF (gopher://gopher.eff.org/11/CAF) - Computers &
Academic Freedom
* bell.com - MFJ Task Force archives of telecom regulatory issues
** WWW Sites **
* http://www.eff.org/ - Electronic Frontier Foundation
* http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/) - Computers & Academic Freedom file archives
* http://www.eff.org/CAF/ - other CAF resources
* http://www.eff.org/CAF/cl-index.html
(A live index to "newsy" civil-liberties related Net material)
** BBSs **
* Outpost - EFF Online +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps V.32bis V.42bis)
+1 202 638 6119 (8N1, 300-14400bps V.32bis V.42bis,
16800bps ZyXEL protocol)
** FTPMail & Files-by-Email Servers **
* InterNIC Directory and Database Services Mail Server
This server provides access to information and services available from the
InterNIC's Directory and Database Services. The server is used principally
for access to the file archives, but other (free) services available from
Directory and Database services include the Directory and Database
Services X.500 server, which provides information on an institution or
person; Internet document databases; the Directory and Database Services
whois server, and much more. This valuable information is only an email
message away.
General: admin@ds.internic.net
Server: mailserv@ds.internic.net, message body: "HELP" (no quotes)
* Patent Titles Email Server
A project of Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service, the PTES is
similar to an FTPmail system, "where people can retrieve lists of patent
titles dating back to 1970 for any USPTO class/subclass, and patent numbers
for additional patents dating back to the 1800's. The Patent Titles email
server is the first step in our efforts to make the entire USPTO APS patent
text database system accessible over the Internet. Approximately one
gigabyte of data has been prepared and attached to the Internet.
General: srctran@world.std.com
Server: search@world.std.com, message body: "SENDTO "
and "SEND HELP" [no quotes, each of the commands on separate line.]
** Misc. Online Resources **
OTHER RESOURCES
---------------
* New York State Legislative Services (bill texts, etc.): 1 800 342 9860
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