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 4 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER RESOURCES --------------- * New York State Legislative Services (bill texts, etc.) Voice: 1 800 342 9860 ************************************************************************* ADMINISTRIVIA ============= * IMPORTANT: Subscribe commands, and the like, when given in quotes mean "type this command, but without the quotes." 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For the standard unix gopher, for example, the syntax is: gopher -p such as: gopher -p 1/EFF gopher.eff.org 70 WWW users: to convert a gopher path to a URL: prepend "gopher://" to the site name, and fuse the path to the site name, inserting an extra "/1" at the beginning of the path. If you have to use the port number, insert it and a preceding colon between the site and path: "gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF" becomes "gopher.eff.org:70/11/EFF/" To convert an FTP location to a URL, prepend "ftp://" to the site, and join the path to the site: "ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/" become "ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/EFF/" * WHO/WHERE: This list is maintained by Stanton McCandlish . It is based on the resource list formerly at the end of the Online Activism Organizations FAQ (itself based on an older list by Shari Steele). Future updates will be posted to the ACTION mailing list and comp.org.eff.talk, besides several other places. The most current version is available from: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq gopher.eff.org, 1/Activism, activ_resource.faq http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq * SCOPE: This list includes activism forums, and topical forums & resources (computing futures, access to govt. info, privacy and censorship, regional politics, NII/GII/"Data Superhighway" issues, virtual community, civil liberties & human rights, etc.) of relevance. 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 & resources (e.g. [non-]smokers' rights, environmentalism, gun ownership/regulation, etc.) and partisan politics specifics, is outside the scope of this list. NOTE: Organizations' "house organs" are not listed here, and soon neither will be govt. publications or servers. "Enforcement" of this is not yet consistent. Organizational resources (e.g. CPSR mailing lists, PRC ftp servers, etc.) are listed by organization in the 2nd part of this FAQ, the Online Activism Organizations List. Government servers and service are listed in a WWW-based list (which we hope to provide in plaintext also at some point), at http://www.eff.org/govt.html at EFFWeb. In the mean time, see several documents providing info on govt contacts and services online, available from ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/ and subdirectories thereof. Exception: Organizational items of interest that provide more than "house organ" content may appear in this list, as may political resources of a libertarian, or even conservative or liberal nature, that are not directly tied to a politcal party, provided the offer someting of general interest to activists and/or civil liberties advocates. * YOUR LISTING: Please! Check your entry regularly and make sure it is up to date. 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