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Greetings and welcome to the aaa-web mailing list!
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The idea for this list was hatched by several people around the US who
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were interested in using electronic mail as a tool to facilitate
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communication among anarchists and anti-authoritarian activists.
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Most of the addresses on this list were submitted at the Sunday night
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meeting at the Philadelphia anarchist gathering (some people gave
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electronic addresses, some postal address, some both -- this list will
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be sent in my next message). A few others are people who expressed
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interest who either could not attend the conference or had to leave
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before the Sunday meeting.
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The name aaa-web was agreed on by those who got together at lunch on
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Monday. `aaa' is for anarchist and anti-authoritarian activists (or
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some variant of that). `web' indicates that we are non-hierarchical,
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decentralized, and want to extend out to reach activists by many means
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(and also distinguished between us and the several other uses of
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`aaa').
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The list has been set up on a machine at the Free Software Foundation.
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The FSF is a group of programmers, begun by an anarchist, who write
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and provide software free of charge. They believe info and computer
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access should be open and freely available, and they provide accounts
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and host mailing lists as their space permits. FSF is located at a
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computer lab at MIT. The address for the aaa-web is:
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aaa-web@moomix.com
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As part of their philosophy of access, FSF maintains an open system,
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without encryptation, security software, etc. Right now, there is a
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list of e-mail addresses only (no names or postal addresses) residing
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in the FSF mail aliases file, which is readable by others who have FSF
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accounts. The list is currently not encrypted in any way, but people
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who know how can use encryptation to send personal messages to other
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list members. Can someone who knows how to use PGP (``Pretty Good
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Privacy'') send a message with some instructions?
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This list is a mail echo, which means that when you send a message to
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aaa-web@moomix.com, it is sent back out to everyone on the list.
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You can also send messages to any individual address in the e-mail
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list, which will be sent out every week or so. (I will send the
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current complete list, including postal addresses, in my next
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message....after that I'm thinking of sending just the e-mail address
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list on a weekly basis, plus maybe the changes and additions to the
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postal addresses).
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To use the echo, just send mail to aaa-web@moomix.com. Using a
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UNIX mailer, you can use a command called `mail'... just type `mail
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aaa-web@moomix.com'. Once you are in the mail program, you can
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use commands to save your messages (s), delete them (d), display your
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list of messages (h) and quit the program (q). If you are concerned
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about security or space, you will probably want to print out your
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messages or save them on a diskette rather than leaving them lying
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around on your system's hard drive.
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Unfortunately, I don't know much about using mail from a non-UNIX
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system, so hopefully someone else can fill that in!
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If you have any questions, additions or changes to the list, please
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send me mail at liz@moomix.com. Jan Brittenson, who works at the
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FSF, can also add people, make changes and answer technical questions
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about using the list (mail to bson@moomix.com). Both of us can be
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reached at aaa-web-request@moomix.com (the advantage of the
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request address is that it is not tied to an individual, and could
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remain the same when the list changes sites).
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We can also set up an automatic archiver, which would save copies of
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all the messages sent to aaa-web. The disadvantages in terms of
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security are obvious. The advantage is that it would be nice to have
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older posts available for people new to the aaa-web list and to mail
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to people who do not have electronic access. Another option is that
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an individual or group could volunteer to maintain an archive manually
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on their own system and send it out to people who request it.
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There was considerable discussion at the Sunday meeting about who we
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want to tell about this list. The consensus seemed to be that we
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wanted to start small, with people who were at the meeting and
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personal acquaintances that had expressed interest. We agreed not to
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announce the aaa-web address to larger lists like anarchy-list or
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Usenet newsgroups. One suggestion was that when you want to add a new
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person, you could send the list an introduction telling a little about
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them, so people can get to know each other better and build more of a
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community.
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We also discussed the possibility of creating another larger list for
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things like large documents, electronic copies of zines, news stories,
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and other things we'd like to send out more broadly. Discussion will
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continue on this list about how to go forward from here, and Baklava
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in Chicago has agreed to send out the list and info to people with
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postal addresses. Each local group or individual with e-mail access
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is encouraged to create method for passing e-mail messages to people
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who don't have access in the way that best suits their local needs
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and desires.
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Well, that's it for now....I'm sure I've left something out, so
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please anyone please feel free to jump in and start the discussion!
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-Liz
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(liz@moomix.com)
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