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@NET UPDATE
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31st July, 1995.
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Hi!
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It's been a good few months since i've done an @net Update. I did a couple
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towards the end of last year, but there hasn't been anything since then.
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I think it's about time to circulate a bit of information around about what's
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going on at the moment as there doesn't seem to be any effective way for it
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to happen of its own accord.
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I'm circulating this initially to individuals and groups around the world
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who i've had personal contact with, who are working together or independently
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on building a network of public access anarchist BBSs and who have internet
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email addresses. I see a distinction between working on the "virtual"
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network, which exists within the internet and includes things like Spunk
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press, the Anarchy-list etc and working on a publicly accessible network,
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which may or may not use Internet for its internal communication. By
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"publicly accessible", i mean accessible to people who don't already have
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internet access and maybe don't even have computers of their own.
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I thought about emailing everyone involved and asking for reports, but that
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would take a while and while i'm at it i might as well spread a bit of
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information. If anyone wants to mail me a report of what's happening in
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their part of the world for consumption by other people working on the same
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thing, please do and i'll circulate it. At the moment, i'm working on
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organizing an internet mailing list which will make this exchange of
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information easier and get me out of the situation of being in the middle.
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Then everyone involved and interested can keep each other up to date with
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what they're doing and we can work together towards a larger anarchist
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computer network. However, as that's not happening right now, here's what i
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know of what's going on so far.
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* * *
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The @net started in Melbourne, Australia, with an anarchist BBS called
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"The Xchange". This began as a dial-in bbs with no network links, in early
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1993. It eventually developed rather dodgy networking with a fido protocol
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feed from a neighbouring BBS. Late last year, it became an internet email
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and usenet node, xchange.apana.org.au, with a UUCP feed from APANA, the
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Australian Public Access Network Association, using Waffle bbs software. At
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the moment, it has no Fido networking happening and may never have again.
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Contact: compcoll@xchange.apana.org.au
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A couple of months before the Xchange got internet linked, in about September
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1994, Byteback BBS began in Brisbane, Australia, operating from Holus Bolus
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Anarchist Bookshop. It had a dial-in line and could be also be used by people
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coming into the shop. It also used Waffle and had a UUCP feed from APANA. Its
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address is byteback.apana.org.au . Sadly, Holus Bolus closed down at the end
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of July, leaving Byteback homeless and without its dial-in line. However,
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it's still running and is available to the anarchist movement in Brisbane.
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It's also being upgraded to run Linux software, which should make it much
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better.
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contact: sysop@byteback.apana.org.au
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Sometime in 1995, The Media Room started up in Sydney, Australia. This is
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an anarchist collective, working on various aspects of media and originally
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based at the back of Jura Anarchist Bookshop. They eventually developed
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internet links and are now running their own node, lyst.apana.org.au , using
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Waffle for their UUCP feed from Apana. They have moved from Jura and are now
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based at Black Rose anarchist bookshop.
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contact: cat@lyst.apana.org.au
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Jura books have started up their own project called Jura Media and have their
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own node: chaos.apana.org.au .
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In Italy, ECN (European Counter Network) are developing internet links with
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their fido-protocol bbs network. Here's the text of their World-Wide Web
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homepage.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/ecn
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_________________________________________________________________
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EUROPEAN COUNTER NETWORK
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_________________________________________________________________
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[IMAGE]
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_________________________________________________________________
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The European Counter Network has nine nodes in Italy, based in the
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following cities: Asti, Bologna, Brescia, Florence, Milan, Monselice,
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Padova, and Rome.
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A non-profit network dedicated first and foremost to broadening
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political debate and providing counter-information, the E.C.N. has
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file and conference areas devoted to a number of important social
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themes, including gender politics, AIDS, drugs, current struggles, the
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centri sociali and workplace politics. The network's most important
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facet is its NEWS file area, which in recent years has become a
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central source for information about the activities and debates
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amongst the various strands of Italy's 'self-organized' left.
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The E.C.N. was born in 1989 as a Europe-wide project involving
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Italian, British, German and Dutch comrades. Since that time,
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financial difficulties have had the unfortunate effect of loosening
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these international links, leaving the network to develop primarily
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within each of the countries concerned.
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Today, with the Internet becoming easily accessible to more and more
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people, less haphazard links between the various European components
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of the ECN (e.g. the ECN-UK) are once again on the agenda.
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In the meantime, the Italian ECN has established close links with the
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xchange BBS in Melbourne, Australia. Part of that country's small
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but growing anarchist computer network (@net), xchange mirrors most
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of the public messages broadcast on the Padova node. The two BBS also
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jointly produce a regular English-language electronic newsletter which
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summarises these postings, along with a full translation of one or two
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longer documents from Italy's 'self-organised' left. The latest
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edition of Italian COUNTERINFO can be found at the Mid-Atlantic
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Infoshop Home Page (for a free subscription to this e-zine, contact:
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pmargin@xchange.apana.org.au).
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The E.C.N.'s Internet connection is currently in an experimental
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phase, testing out basic services such as the distribution of
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documents through a listserver, and a number of simple WWW info-pages
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like this one. Any comments or suggestions can be forwarded to
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hobo@freenet.hut.fi.
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and here's a bit of information.
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>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>ECN Bologna (European Counter Network)
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>modem 051-520986 - Controinformazione
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>da centri sociali - bbs e reti telematiche antagoniste
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>- radio libere - riviste - giornali - centri di documentazione
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>- cani sciolti - in linea 24/h/giorno
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>e-mail fam0393@iperbole.bologna.it
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>http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/ecn/ecnbo.htm
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>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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In Catalunya, El Lokal in Barcelona have started up a bbs called LLIURE,
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i'm afraid i've mislaid (in other words, accidentally deleted!) the
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information i had about this. Lliure is a fido-protocol bbs, with a lot
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of text files and some communications software available. They don't as
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yet have internet links, but can be contacted at ellokal@pangea.upc.es .
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ECN London, who produce the paper Contraflow, are currently working on
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setting up an internet link of some sort. Hopefully this will be working
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within a few weeks.
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contact: for the time being, i can pass on msgs.
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Fast Breeder anarchist bbs, which used to operate in London has unfortunately
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folded due mainly to only having one person running it.
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In Sweden there's an anarchist bbs with a UUCP connection to internet
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called IBKOM (Information Bureau BBS). As far as i know, so far there hasn't
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been any formal connections with the other bbss i'm in touch with.
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Well, that's about it for now. I hope i haven't left anything important
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out. Sorry this is in english only.
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seeyas
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will
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