Online Civil Liberties Activism Resource List, Ver. 5.3 ======================================================= A list of Usenet newsgroups, Internet mailing lists and other resources of use to the online activist. PART 1 An ACTION/EFF FAQ maintained by Stanton McCandlish VOLUNTEER MAINTAINER NEEDED! Administrative queries about this document should be sent to Stanton McCandlish . Updated: Jan. 21, 1997 Archived at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq See also http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_groups.faq, the Online Activism Organizations List. * IMPORTANT: Subscribe commands, and the like, when given in quotes mean "type this command, but without the quotes." Likewise means "put your name here, without the angle-brackets." Unless otherwise noted, all parts of the command should be on the same line in your subscribe message. Gopher resources are, when possible, pointed to with full paths, rather than menu titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS ======== 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 Online Publications ** Archive & Search Sites (FTP/Gopher/WWW) BBSs Misc. Online Resources HARDCOPY PUBLICATIONS OTHER RESOURCES ADMINISTRIVIA Recent Changes ============== 5.3 - updated ALAOIF entry, changed archive FTP site to http URL. 5.2 - misc. clarifications to categorization; added CataLaw entry 5.1 - added Human Rights Law entry 5.0 - updated Cypherpunks entry ************************************************************************* RESOURCE LISTINGS ================= INTERNET/BITNET MAILING LISTS & E-PUBS AVAILABLE VIA MAILING LISTS ------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2600 _2600_Magazine_ list for hacker/phreaker issues. A bit irreverent, shall we say, but sometimes turns to issues of law enformcement, regulation and civil liberties. For info on the magazine itself, see 2600 Magazine under "HARDCOPY PUBLICATIONS". Subscribe: listserv@bongo.cc.utexas.edu, message body: "subscribe 2600 " * AAASHRAN AAAS Human Rights Action Network forum. Subscribe: listserv%gwuvm.bitnet@vtbit.cc.vt.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE AAASHRAN " * ACTION The 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. ACTION is a non-organization-specific, tightly focused list. Before joining, please review (and comment upon if you wish) the charter and FAQ for ACTION: see ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/ACTION/ - the list archive. (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 ACTION" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/[ACTION/] Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Activism[/ACTION] WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/[ACTION/] * ACTIV-L (misc.activism.progressive) A mailing list that gates the misc.activism.progressive Usenet newsgroup. ACTIV-L is a moderated forum concerned with "progressive" political action (human rights, environment, empowerment, media censorship, etc.) subscribe (??): listserv@mizzou1.bitnet or listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE ACTIV-L " * ALAOIF American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom's freedom of expression forum (mainly of interest to librarians, archivists, and those following computers & academic freedom issues.) Subscribe: listproc@ala.org, message body: "subscribe alaoif " * ALERT [see CPSR ALERT, EPIC ALERT] * AMEND1-L - ACA Free Speech Issues Discussion Group The American Communication Association invites subscriptions to its on-line discussion group for Free Speech Issues. The topics include current and historical issues in freedom of expression, reviews of recent books and articles related to free speech, constitutional interpretation, research opportunities, current litigation, communication policy, privacy, censorship, and other areas relating to freedom of expression, both in the United States and elsewhere. General: Stephen Smith Subscribe: listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu, message body: "sub AMEND1-L " * CalGovInfo CPSR's California public accesss to government information forum. Seeing the great strides CA has made in the area of govt. info online, this is likely to be a hot list for some time to come. Subscribe: listserv@cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe calgovinfo " * COMMUNET Mailing list for discussion of community and civic networks. Subscribe: listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu or listproc@moose.uvm.edu, message body: "subscribe COMMUNET " * COMMUNITY-ACCESS Mailing list for discussion of community access issues Subscribe: community-access-request@parc.xerox.com, message body: "subscribe COMMUNITY-ACCESS " * Computer Law Observer The Computer Law Observer is distributed for free and is designed for both lawyers and nonlawyers. The Observer covers a broad range of topics relating to computer law and the Internet such as intellectual property, licensing, privacy, Constitutional issues, crime, as well as a variety of other issues arising from doing business over the Internet. The Computer Law Observer is owned and distributed by Challenge Communications and is edited by William S. Galkin, Esq., who is an attorney in private practice. He has concentrated his practice in the computer law field since 1986 and is an adjunct professor of computer law at the University of Maryland School of Law. In addition to articles by Mr. Galkin, The Observer also contains articles by a variety of recognized experts in the field. General: galkin@aol.com (William S. Galkin) Subscribe: challcomm@aol.com, message body: "Please subscribe me to CLO." * Computer PRIVACY Digest (CPD) (ex- Telecom Privacy Digest) Like RISKS, a moderated digest-format electronic newsletter. It is more open than 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." Moderator: Prof. L. P. Levine (levine@blatz.cs.uwm.edu) Subscribe: comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu, message body: "subscribe" UseNet: comp.society.privacy FTP: ftp.cs.uwm.edu, /pub/comp-privacy/ Gopher: gopher.cs.uwm.edu, 1/"Computer Privacy Digest" [quotes mandatory] WWW: ftp://ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/comp-privacy/ gopher://miller.cs.uwm.edu:70/11/Computer%20Privacy%20Digest/ * Computer PRIVACY Forum [See PRIVACY Forum Digest (PFD)] * 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/Moderator/Editor: Jim Thomas BITNET: tk0jut2@niu.bitnet <- NOTE: That's tk*ZERO*jut2 not tk*OH*jut2 Archivists: 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] Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest FTP: ftp.eff.org, pub/Publications/CuD/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/ ftp.std.com, /src/wuarchive/doc/EFF/Publications/CuD/CuD/ /obi/Computer.U.Digest/ (partial mirror) nic.funet.fi, /pub/doc/cud/ ftp.warwick.ac.uk, /pub/cud/ ftp.glocom.ac.jp, /mirror/ftp.eff.org/Publications/CuD/CuD/ coast.cs.purdue.edu, /pub/mirrors/ftp.eff.org/CuD/ wuarchive.wustl.edu, /pub/doc/EFF/Publications/CuD/CuD/ uceng.uc.edu, /pub/wuarchive/doc/EFF/Publications/CuD/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 Snail: 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 the version you want.) * CNI-Modernization Some sort of net.commerce stuff. Lousy description, I know. Looking for more info. Admin: Craig Summerhill Subscribe: listproc@cni.org, message body: "subscribe cni-modernization " * CPSR ALERT Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility newsletter Subscribe: listserv@washofc.cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe alert " * cpsr-global A new CPSR-sponsored mailing list on global information infrastructure issues. Moderator: Marsha Woodbury. Subscribe: listserv@cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe cpsr-global" * Current Cites [See Public-Access Computer Systems.] * CyberWire Dispatch (CWD) Brock Meek's newsletter of alerts and articles on information technology and telecom policy. Meeks, who writes from _Communications_Daily_ and _WIRED_ among others, has rare, and often biting, insight into what's really going on, most of the time. Highly recommended. Subscribe: majordomo@cyberwerks.com, message body: "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@jefferson.village.virginia.edu, message body: "subscribe cybermind " * Cyber-Rights Mailing list devoted to online civil liberties. Parent group of the Internet Action Group (see entry in Online Activism Organizations FAQ.) Subscribe: majordomo@deliberate.com, message body: "subscribe cr" * 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. A recent addition to the stable is Cypherpunks Lite, a lower-traffic version for more serious participants. Joining the list requires a membership fee [don't have address for this yet]. I have no info at the moment on the local groups, other than the Austin, DC, & Boston Cypherpunks, so if anyone has info to pass on please do so. There's now a hardware-oriented sublist also. Main list admin: Eric Hughes Main subscribe: majordomo@toad.com, message body: "subscribe cypherpunks" Main FTP admin: Eric Hughes (Berkeley) Karl Lui Barrus (BSU) Al Whaley (CPSR) Main FTP: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/ (many mirrors exist) chaos.bsu.edu, /cypherpunks/ cpsr.org, /pub/cypherpunks/ Main WWW admin: Eric Hughes Main WWW: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks Hardware admin: J.D. Blair Hardware subscribe: cp-hardware-request@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu, message body: "subscribe cp-hardware " Austin admin: Jim McCoy Doug Barnes Austin subscribe: austin-cypherpunks-request@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu austin-cypherpunks-announce-request@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu message body: "subscribe austin-cypherpunks " or "subscribe austin-cypherpunks-announce " Austin FTP: ftp.cc.utexas.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/ Austin WWW: ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/pub/cypherpunks/ Boston/Cambridge admin: Derek Atkins Boston/Cambridge subscribe: ask cypherpunks-east-request@mit.edu Boston/Cambridge Usenet: ailab.cypherpunks DC admin: Pat Farrell DC subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "sub dccp" DC WWW: http://www.isse.gmu.edu/~pfarrell/dccp/index.html Wonks admin: cypherwonks-owner@lassie.eunet.fi Wonks subscribe: majordomo@lists.eunet.fi, message body: "subscribe cypherwonks" Lite admin/subscribe: Inquire with Eric Blossom * DC-Nets Forum for technical discussion of cryptographic networking protocols and the creation of encrypted, secure networks. Subscribe: listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu, message body: "subscribe dc-nets " * EDLAW Education and law forum (?) Subscribe: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu, message body: "subscribe edlaw " * 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 " Subscribe (Update): listproc@educom.edu, message body: "subscribe update " Portugese/Spanish versions: ask edunews@nc-rj.rnp.br * efa@iinet.com.au (EF-Australia; = aus.org.efa newsgroup/EFA Fido echo) * 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/ ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/ 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/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/ * 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) * Electronic Public Information Newsletter (EPIN) A newsletter dedicated to informing and explaining the policies and practices surrounding the transformation of public information to electronic form. Founded in November 1991, EPIN is published biweekly (24 issues a year) in a paper format. An EPIN summary is distributed free of charge to the Internet community. EPIN is an independent publication with no ties to any stakeholder within the information community. The newsletter is based in the Washington, D.C. area; the editor is James McDonough. The subscription cost is US$249 a year for business and government; US$130 for libraries and public interest organizations and US$65 for individuals. Subscribe (online summaries): epin@access.digex.net FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/E-journals/EPIN WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ gopher://gopher.eff.org/hh/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ Subscribe (hardcopy): EPIN Box 21001 Washinton DC 20009 USA Fax: +1 301 365 3621 * 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" FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send fax-faq" 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 " * gopher-announce and gopher-news A moderated mailing list where new gopher servers and software are announced, gopher-announce is probably the best way to learn of new activism-relevant servers (govt. gophers, organization gophers, etc.) General gopher discussion happens on gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu an altogether more verbose and techie mailing list than gopher-announce. (To subscribe to gopher-news, send a request to: gopher-news-request @boombox.micro.umn.edu). Subscribe: gopher-announce-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu, message body: "subscribe gopher-announce "