From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 11:24:51 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:24:51 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Emergency IMC UK list set up -- please pass this on Message-ID: <20030327112451.GA409@croome.net> Hi I have mass subscribed these people -- people who have been on IRC loads in the last few days: 11:21 < chris_work> setting up list 11:22 < chris_work> http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency 11:22 < chris_work> i'll mass subscribe people here, gimmy your email addresses! 11:24 < chris_work> shall i use address list that ab was sending stuff out with the other day? 11:25 < chris_work> i have added these: 11:25 < chris_work> chris at croome.net 11:25 < chris_work> ionnek at gmx.net 11:25 < chris_work> andi at syndicate.org.uk 11:25 < chris_work> anarchobabe at fempages.org 11:25 -!- jmp_away is now known as jmp 11:26 < ionnek> have you resonate at spc.org 11:27 < ionnek> thats Rachel, from imc london, works at larc media space these days. 11:27 < ionnek> jav at spc.org, same 11:27 < chris_work> done, done This is the address to mail to people asking them to join the emgency list: http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency It is an open list with open archives, perhaps should be on contact page also? I'm the admin, if anyone else wants to do it fine :-) Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030327/e4736930/attachment.pgp From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 12:24:47 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:24:47 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks Message-ID: <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> Hi That attached feature doesn't really have an editorial line because I don't know what the IMC line is on this. Personally I'm posting comments on DDoS newswire items saying why I don't think they are a good idea. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030327/73c82eed/attachment.html From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 12:36:51 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:36:51 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Add link to this list on contacts page? Message-ID: <20030327123651.GC409@croome.net> Hi Should there be a link to this list: http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From the contacts page: http://uk.indymedia.org/contact.php3 Also some small suggestions for the contacts page to make hyperlinks better (I _hate_ click heres! hyperlinks should make sense out of context if possible!): Change this: If you want to submit a report via email, because you have a slow connection or are
too lazy to fill in the upload form, mail to our publicly archived reports list, email: imc-uk-reports at lists.indymedia.org .

To: If you want to submit a report via email, because you have a slow connection or are
too lazy to fill in the upload form, mail to our publicly archived reports list, email: imc-uk-reports at lists.indymedia.org .

Change this: To take part in general discussions please subscribe to our publicly archived imc-uk list.
To: To take part in general discussions please subscribe to our publicly archived imc-uk list.
Add link to Cambridge under local IMCs: Cambridge http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-cambridge Also Newcastle? http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59617&group=webcast Change this: The global Indymedia project operates through a system of email lists, dedicated to geographical areas or specific projects. See the world's complete list of imc mailing lists here.
To: The global Indymedia project operates through a system of email lists, dedicated to geographical areas or specific projects. See the world's complete list of imc mailing lists.
Change this: Here you can see how Google indexes list archives.

To: Try this Google search to see how Google indexes list archives.

Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030327/057e638f/attachment.pgp From ionnek at gmx.net Thu Mar 27 13:11:53 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:11:53 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Add link to this list on contacts page? In-Reply-To: <20030327123651.GC409@croome.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030327130417.02c30530@pop.gmx.net> chris - point taken. will comment on it and change file when listserve is up again. Why? Ana and I are collecting improvements. Then change all in one go. More efficient. experience shows that it makes sense to have 1 or 2 pp responsible for tasks. comments page can be source of heated discussion, so changes should be mentioned more publicly than possible on emergency. For now: At 12:36 27/03/03, Chris Croome wrote: >Hi > >Should there be a link to this list: > > http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency > would leave that list for tight organising. hope listserve b back soon > From the contacts page: > > http://uk.indymedia.org/contact.php3 > >Also some small suggestions for the contacts page to make hyperlinks better (I >_hate_ click heres! hyperlinks should make sense out of context if possible!): > >Change this: > > If you want to submit a report via email, because you have a slow > connection or > are
too lazy to fill in the upload form, mail to our publicly > archived reports href="http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-uk-reports">list, email: > imc-uk-reports at lists.indymedia.org .

> >To: > > If you want to submit a report via email, because you have a slow > connection or > are
too lazy to fill in the upload form, mail to our href="http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-uk-reports">publicly > archived reports list, email: > imc-uk-reports at lists.indymedia.org .

ok >Change this: > > To take part in general discussions please subscribe to our publicly > archived imc-uk href="http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-uk">list.
> >To: > > To take part in general discussions please subscribe to our > publicly > archived href="http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-uk">imc-uk list.
ok >Add link to Cambridge under local IMCs: > > Cambridge > http://lists.indymedia.org/listinfo/imc-cambridge > >Also Newcastle? > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59617&group=webcast extra section - add links to "coming soon" >Change this: > > The global Indymedia project operates through a system of email lists, > dedicated to geographical areas or specific projects. See the world's > complete > list of imc mailing lists href="%20http://lists.indymedia.org">here.
> >To: > > The global Indymedia project operates through a system of email lists, > dedicated to geographical areas or specific projects. See the > world's > complete list of imc mailing lists.
ok >Change this: > > >href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:lists.indymedia.org+imc-uk-outreach">Here > you can see how Google indexes list archives.

> >To: > > Try >href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:lists.indymedia.org+imc-uk-outreach">this >Google search > to see how Google indexes list archives.

ok >Chris > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield > >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From ionnek at gmx.net Thu Mar 27 13:22:21 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:22:21 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] subscribe to the "imc-uk-emergency" mailing list Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030327132037.00ac8710@pop.gmx.net> hi all, here's a blurb to invite pp from imc-uk network to join this list: ---------------------------------- The imc listserv was down several times since Thursday March 19th. This emergency was set up temporarily to allow communcation flow within the imc uk network. Please inform other people in the imc uk network who might be interested in a substitute info channel as long as the imc listserve is down. Some tasks that can be coordinated on this list: - features: Features on the imc-uk frontpage. They are also being coordinated on irc.indymedia.org, channel #nowaruk. - discussions that are too complex to be discussed on irc - feedback and feed in for those who can't access irc. !!As soon as the listserv is up again, please revert to the usual lists.!! ----------------- Ionnek >X-Flags: 0000 >Delivered-To: GMX delivery to ionnek at gmx.net >Subject: Welcome to the "imc-uk-emergency" mailing list >From: imc-uk-emergency-request at email-lists.org >To: ionnek at gmx.net >X-No-Archive: yes >Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:20:54 +0000 >X-BeenThere: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 >List-Id: UK Indymedia Emergency List >Sender: imc-uk-emergency-bounces at email-lists.org >X-GMX-Antivirus: -1 (not scanned, may not use virus scanner) > >Welcome to the imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org mailing list! > >To post to this list, send your email to: > > imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org > >General information about the mailing list is at: > > http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency > >If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to >or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your >subscription page at: > > >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/options/imc-uk-emergency/ionnek%40gmx.net > > >You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: > > imc-uk-emergency-request at email-lists.org > >with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the >quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. > >You must know your password to change your options (including changing >the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. It is: > > arocif > >Normally, Mailman will remind you of your email-lists.org mailing list >passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you >prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to >unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on >your options page that will email your current password to you. From n.cass at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Mar 27 14:39:13 2003 From: n.cass at lancaster.ac.uk (Cass, Noel) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:39:13 -0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks Message-ID: me and jmp kicke dout of IRC, is it down??? what's going on? anarchoteapot -----Original Message----- From: Chris Croome [mailto:chris at croome.net] Sent: 27 March 2003 12:25 To: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks Hi That attached feature doesn't really have an editorial line because I don't know what the IMC line is on this. Personally I'm posting comments on DDoS newswire items saying why I don't think they are a good idea. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 14:41:27 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:41:27 +0000 Subject: IRC down, was: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20030327144127.GH24125@croome.net> Hi On Thu 27-Mar-2003 at 02:39:13PM -0000, Cass, Noel wrote: > me and jmp kicke dout of IRC, is it down??? Yeah IRC is down, lists are starting to come back but there must be a huge backlog so I guess they won't be back to normal for at least a day. > what's going on? Dunno. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From ionnek at gmx.net Thu Mar 27 14:58:51 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:58:51 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks In-Reply-To: <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030327145330.02c0dec0@pop.gmx.net> Hi Chris noel and all, planet-mail and I are just looking at your feat, tracing sites etc. will send more l8er ionnek At 12:24 27/03/03, Chris Croome wrote: >Hi > >That attached feature doesn't really have an editorial line because I >don't know what the IMC line is on this. Personally I'm posting comments >on DDoS newswire items saying why I don't think they are a good idea. > >Chris > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield > >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 16:14:02 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:14:02 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Global list servers seems to have been flooded with pro-war spam? Message-ID: <20030327161402.GG409@croome.net> Hi I'm starting to get stuff through from the imc-tech list and it's mostly spam, with titles such as ***Show Your Pride For America *** it's probably some kind of windoze virus, this might be one of the reasons why the lists have been screwed? If anyone is misfortunate enough to be using windoze -- be careful! Don't open any attachments, consider using a MUA (Mail User Agent) other than Outlook. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From n.cass at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Mar 27 16:31:51 2003 From: n.cass at lancaster.ac.uk (Cass, Noel) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:31:51 -0000 Subject: IRC down, was: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks Message-ID: front page of uk site seems to be unobtainable, me off soon (is 16.30) see you all in the morning maybe anarchoteapot -----Original Message----- From: Chris Croome [mailto:chris at croome.net] Sent: 27 March 2003 14:41 To: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org Subject: IRC down, was: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks Hi On Thu 27-Mar-2003 at 02:39:13PM -0000, Cass, Noel wrote: > me and jmp kicke dout of IRC, is it down??? Yeah IRC is down, lists are starting to come back but there must be a huge backlog so I guess they won't be back to normal for at least a day. > what's going on? Dunno. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield _______________________________________________ imc-uk-emergency mailing list imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 16:37:37 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:37:37 +0000 Subject: IRC down, was: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20030327163737.GA25570@croome.net> Hi On Thu 27-Mar-2003 at 04:31:51PM -0000, Cass, Noel wrote: > front page of uk site seems to be unobtainable, me off soon (is > 16.30) I can still ping so I guess squid has died again and need restarting, This has also knocked the global site off as well. IRC is still down. Chris [chris at snowball chris]$ ping indymedia.org PING indymedia.org (216.231.32.98) from 192.168.1.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from stallman.indymedia.org (216.231.32.98): icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=174 ms 64 bytes from stallman.indymedia.org (216.231.32.98): icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=182 ms [chris at snowball chris]$ ping irc.indymedia.org PING kropotkin.indymedia.org (216.102.237.124) from 192.168.1.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. --- kropotkin.indymedia.org ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% loss, time 7012ms -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 16:43:07 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:43:07 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-features] lists up again? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030327143544.02c01720@pop.gmx.net> References: <20030326180141.NJLG20605.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@[81.104.8.73]> <5.1.0.14.0.20030327143544.02c01720@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20030327164307.GB25570@croome.net> Hi On Thu 27-Mar-2003 at 02:36:29PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > am trying to work out if postings during downtime will appear... I was wondering that as well, if themail doesn't make it onto the IMC list server then it'll get qued and should eventually appear when things are back up. However if it gets to the mailserver and the server is losing data (possible) then things will be lost. Without knowing more it's hard to say. I think the best thing to do is to continue mailing which ever UK IMC list and also CC everything to the emergency list. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 22:40:42 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:40:42 +0000 Subject: [Imc-uk-features] [imc-uk-emergency] Draft feature on DDoS attacks In-Reply-To: <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> References: <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> Message-ID: <20030327224042.GB27029@croome.net> Hi I don't know if this is going to be uesd as the basis of a feature: http://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030327/73c82eed/war_ddos.html But if it is used this might also be worth linking to: Al Jazeera's web site - DDoSed or unplugged? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29984.html If people haven't come across The Register it's probably the UK's main tech news site. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Thu Mar 27 22:56:20 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:56:20 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] IRC is back up :-) Message-ID: <20030327225620.GD27029@croome.net> Hey IRC is back up: http://irc.indymedia.org/ As usual on #nowaruk Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From andi at syndicate.org.uk Fri Mar 28 01:13:54 2003 From: andi at syndicate.org.uk (andi) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:13:54 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] 59945 and hidden Message-ID: <20030328011518.517E42842D@mail.webarchitects.co.uk> lists are down AGAIN! to see how often this now has happened check http://riseup.net/mrtg/indy.html and look for sarai... ------------------------------------------------------- 59945 hidden (nazi scum) and 59933 - very tendentious reposting of AP. "ISM hid senior Palestinian terrorist. Rachel Corrie organization So this is who people like Rachel Corrie were protecting." Not even to speak of the corpmedia 'objective' spin by AP on the Rachel Corrie story: "An American activist with the group was killed on March 16 while trying to stop an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said." "she fell in front of the machine"??? this already can count for infactuality... cheers, andi From ionnek at gmx.net Fri Mar 28 17:07:24 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:07:24 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> hi chris and all, have edited your feat. took the "calls on this site" out, replaced by reports on this site. changed the italy bit cause it was cryptic to me, but pp can read about it on the contrast org link (tha for that!) still not happy cause al jazeera attack is not what I perceive as a sensible political action in cyberspace!! pls improve. ionnek White on blue: WAR ON THE INTERNET Yellow: Cyberattacks against Al-Jazeera website

The US/UK war against Iraq, as well as the protests against it, have implications on the internet. The English version of the Al-Jazeera website has been attacked in the form of a DDoS attack. The days old site was knocked off the internet.
English language news sites in the region: Unofficial Al Jazeerah sites | Dar Al Hayat | Reports and Resources from Baghdad |

Several posts report about electronic disobedience, virtual sit-ins, the use of internet war tools and eAction against the pro-war lobby amongst others. Actions on the internet such as Netstrikes have become part of protests and are increasingly being policed. Heated debates on techy sites are ongoing.

From ionnek at gmx.net Fri Mar 28 17:28:02 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:28:02 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [Imc-uk-features] prop cyberfeature In-Reply-To: <20030327224042.GB27029@croome.net> References: <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> <20030327122446.GB409@croome.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328172657.00ac84d0@pop.gmx.net> ideas for title? White on blue: WAR ON THE INTERNET Yellow: War on internet

The US/UK war against Iraq, as well as the protests against it, have implications on the internet. The days old English version of the Al-Jazeera website has been down since 26. March. The Register explores possible reasons.
English language news sites in the region: Unofficial Al Jazeerah sites | Dar Al Hayat | Reports and Resources from Baghdad |

Several posts report about electronic disobedience, virtual sit-ins, the use of internet war tools and eAction against the pro-war lobby amongst others. Actions on the internet such as Netstrikes have become part of protests and are increasingly being policed. Heated debates about DDoS attacks are ongoing on techy sites.

From chris at croome.net Fri Mar 28 17:51:48 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:51:48 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20030328175148.GB375@croome.net> Hi Following is the bit I have re-edited, I think this is OK now (unless I have filled it with spelin mistakes ;-). On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 05:07:24PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > still not happy cause al jazeera attack is not what I perceive as > a sensible political action in cyberspace!! I personally don't support any of this stuff (attacks on left or right wing sites) and the re-written second part of this feature is far too supportive of actions such as the electrohippy stuff IMHO, see the email this is a reply to. Perhaps it's best to just omit it and have a debate on it? Am I in a monority of one in opposing the electrohippy stuff? Chris White on blue: WAR ON THE INTERNET Yellow: Cyberattacks against Al-Jazeera website?

The US/UK war against Iraq, as well as the protests against it, have implications on the internet. The English version of the Al-Jazeera website might have been attacked in the form of a DDoS attack. The days old site has been intermittently available but there are doubts about the cause of the downtime.
English language news sites in the region: Unofficial Al Jazeerah sites | Dar Al Hayat | Reports and Resources from Baghdad |

-- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From ionnek at gmx.net Fri Mar 28 18:02:57 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:02:57 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: <20030328175148.GB375@croome.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328175534.03114e70@pop.gmx.net> shit that the feats list is down. I'd like to have some more input on the cyberspace feature. I agree its best to splet the 2 paragraphs, put them in 2 features. but - maybe ignorant!- think that the al jazeera down on its own is not enough for a feature - wellllll - but menwith hill and fairford were single events too - so dunno.... and, commenting on your new version, Chris: I don't like publishing feats that say - may have been under dd attack. what we know is that its down. and you found that great register article analysing possible reasons. I would leave it at that - site down, backup pages, possible reasons on register. about the cyberaction para - supportive? it just mentions some. not even all ddos. points to a discussion, mentions policiing, leaves it to the reader what they think about it. the contrast page intro makes clear that ddos attacks are not something everyone agrees on. and, yes, for me the decision on wether I agree to a cyberaction or not is not defined by the tech used, but by the degree of connection with social movements, choosing the right target, being fair to participants (not like that jerk who inserted a script in the newswire and made you participate in an attack wether you liked it or not). but I think our opinions don't need to be discussed in depth for a feature - we don't need to agree. Marion At 17:51 28/03/03, Chris Croome wrote: >Hi > >Following is the bit I have re-edited, I think this is OK now >(unless I have filled it with spelin mistakes ;-). > >On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 05:07:24PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > > > still not happy cause al jazeera attack is not what I perceive as > > a sensible political action in cyberspace!! > >I personally don't support any of this stuff (attacks on left or >right wing sites) and the re-written second part of this feature is >far too supportive of actions such as the electrohippy stuff IMHO, >see the email this is a reply to. > >Perhaps it's best to just omit it and have a debate on it? Am I in a >monority of one in opposing the electrohippy stuff? > >Chris > > >White on blue: WAR ON THE INTERNET > >Yellow: Cyberattacks against Al-Jazeera website? > >

The US/UK war against Iraq, as well as the protests against it, have >implications on the internet. The >English version of the >Al-Jazeera website might have been href="http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59631&group=webcast">attacked > >in the form of a DDoS >attack. The >href="http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59685&group=webcast">days > > >old site has been intermittently available but >there >are doubts about the cause of the downtime.
>English language news sites in the region: href="http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59747&group=webcast">Unofficial > > >Al Jazeerah sites | Dar Al >Hayat | href="http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2003/03/2003-03.html#8144">Reports > > >and Resources from Baghdad | >

> > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From ionnek at gmx.net Fri Mar 28 18:04:07 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:04:07 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] M22 feature, london link Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328180315.03115090@pop.gmx.net> for maquis, timeline para feature Half a million marched in London, converging at a rally in Hyde Park. Protesters temporarily blocked Oxford Street and Park Lane. The police surrounded them using heavy physical contact and arrested one demonstrator. Check the detailed timeline. From chris at croome.net Fri Mar 28 18:50:34 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:50:34 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328175534.03114e70@pop.gmx.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20030328170343.03128e80@pop.gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20030328175534.03114e70@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20030328185034.GE375@croome.net> Hi On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 06:02:57PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > shit that the feats list is down. Yeah :-( > I agree its best to splet the 2 paragraphs, put them in 2 features. > but - maybe ignorant!- think that the al jazeera down on its own is not > enough for a feature Hmmm, good point, perhaps they are better together after all? > and, commenting on your new version, Chris: I don't like > publishing feats that say - may have been under dd attack. what we > know is that its down. and you found that great register article > analysing possible reasons. I would leave it at that - site down, > backup pages, possible reasons on register. Yes, I agree. > but I think our opinions don't need to be discussed in depth for a > feature - we don't need to agree. True, in any case the debate can only be had when the lists are back up... Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From sceptic60 at hotmail.com Fri Mar 28 20:34:21 2003 From: sceptic60 at hotmail.com (Andrew Robertson) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:34:21 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks Message-ID: Hello all. I have some queries about the feature proposal on DDOS attacks. I am wandering whether there is concrete evidence that the new al-jazeera english site was attacked or is it maybe. Could it have been because of so many hits, or could it have been a technical problem at thee end. The point i guess if it isn't known for sure then it's a problem putting it up as a feature as it appears to be a maybe this happened. The other objection is the link to a call for ddos attacks as anything in the middle column is an editorial control, therefore potentially making us liable. That's my concerns Cheers and respect Andy >From: Chris Croome >To: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >CC: imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org >Subject: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:50:34 +0000 > >Hi > >On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 06:02:57PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > > > shit that the feats list is down. > >Yeah :-( > > > I agree its best to splet the 2 paragraphs, put them in 2 features. > > but - maybe ignorant!- think that the al jazeera down on its own is not > > enough for a feature > >Hmmm, good point, perhaps they are better together after all? > > > and, commenting on your new version, Chris: I don't like > > publishing feats that say - may have been under dd attack. what we > > know is that its down. and you found that great register article > > analysing possible reasons. I would leave it at that - site down, > > backup pages, possible reasons on register. > >Yes, I agree. > > > but I think our opinions don't need to be discussed in depth for a > > feature - we don't need to agree. > >True, in any case the debate can only be had when the lists are back >up... > >Chris > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency _________________________________________________________________ Overloaded with spam? With MSN 8, you can filter it out http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=32&DI=1059 From melendro333 at yahoo.com Fri Mar 28 21:14:47 2003 From: melendro333 at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sara=20Melendro?=) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:14:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030328211447.21762.qmail@web11001.mail.yahoo.com> Hiya, I think Andrew has an important point with the issue of liability. In any case, I'm not particularly excited about cyberattacks which are just gonna fill the pages with lots of shouting and little use. But then again, if they do it, we not gonna just take either I guess (maybe tehre is alternatives?) well, i jus tried to give my input but don't really have an answer (would like to hear more views), but i somehow don't like the idea of the cyberattacks. sara Andrew Robertson wrote: Hello all. I have some queries about the feature proposal on DDOS attacks. I am wandering whether there is concrete evidence that the new al-jazeera english site was attacked or is it maybe. Could it have been because of so many hits, or could it have been a technical problem at thee end. The point i guess if it isn't known for sure then it's a problem putting it up as a feature as it appears to be a maybe this happened. The other objection is the link to a call for ddos attacks as anything in the middle column is an editorial control, therefore potentially making us liable. That's my concerns Cheers and respect Andy >From: Chris Croome >To: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >CC: imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org >Subject: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:50:34 +0000 > >Hi > >On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 06:02:57PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > > > shit that the feats list is down. > >Yeah :-( > > > I agree its best to splet the 2 paragraphs, put them in 2 features. > > but - maybe ignorant!- think that the al jazeera down on its own is not > > enough for a feature > >Hmmm, good point, perhaps they are better together after all? > > > and, commenting on your new version, Chris: I don't like > > publishing feats that say - may have been under dd attack. what we > > know is that its down. and you found that great register article > > analysing possible reasons. I would leave it at that - site down, > > backup pages, possible reasons on register. > >Yes, I agree. > > > but I think our opinions don't need to be discussed in depth for a > > feature - we don't need to agree. > >True, in any case the debate can only be had when the lists are back >up... > >Chris > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency _________________________________________________________________ Overloaded with spam? With MSN 8, you can filter it out http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=32&DI=1059 _______________________________________________ imc-uk-emergency mailing list imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency --------------------------------- With Yahoo! Mail you can get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030328/f165152b/attachment.html From ionnek at gmx.net Fri Mar 28 21:23:29 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:23:29 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: <20030328211447.21762.qmail@web11001.mail.yahoo.com> References: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030328211651.00ac5720@pop.gmx.net> hi, I don't think its for indymedia to encourage cyberattacks. But IMHO, indymedia is a space to discuss them. There are very many different ways. Like the people who called the army recruitment office in their chats and ask them lots of questions. I think we can, even have to report about cyber actions, as we are reporting about demos. We report about road blockages, lock-ons, sit-ins etc, although I think that not everybody in indymedia is in favour of these actions. I find the discussion about ddos attacks very interesting and would prefer to have them in the comments on the newswire rather than on this list. actually, lists are up again! Ionnek At 21:14 28/03/03, Sara Melendro wrote: >Hiya, > >I think Andrew has an important point with the issue of liability. In any >case, I'm not particularly excited about cyberattacks which are just gonna >fill the pages with lots of shouting and little use. But then again, if >they do it, we not gonna just take either I guess (maybe tehre is >alternatives?) > >well, i jus tried to give my input but don't really have an answer (would >like to hear more views), but i somehow don't like the idea of the >cyberattacks. > >sara > > Andrew Robertson wrote: >Hello all. > >I have some queries about the feature proposal on DDOS attacks. I am >wandering whether there is concrete evidence that the new al-jazeera english >site was attacked or is it maybe. Could it have been because of so many >hits, or could it have been a technical problem at thee end. The point i >guess if it isn't known for sure then it's a problem putting it up as a >feature as it appears to be a maybe this happened. > >The other objection is the link to a call for ddos attacks as anything in >the middle column is an editorial control, therefore potentially making us >liable. > >That's my concerns > >Cheers and respect > >Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: Chris Croome > >To: imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org > >CC: imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org > >Subject: Re: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks > >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:50:34 +0000 > > > >Hi > > > >On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 06:02:57PM +0000, ionnek wrote: > > > > > > shit that the feats list is down. > > > >Yeah :-( > > > > > I agree its best to splet the 2 paragraphs, put them in 2 features. > > > but - maybe ignorant!- think that the al jazeera down on its own is not > > > enough for a feature > > > >Hmmm, good point, perhaps they are better together after all? > > > > > and, commenting on your new version, Chris: I don't like > > > publishing feats that say - may have been under dd attack. what we > > > know is that its down. and you found that great register article > > > analysing possible reasons. I would leave it at that - site down, > > > backup pages, possible reasons on register. > > > >Yes, I agree. > > > > > but I think our opinions don't need to be discussed in depth for a > > > feature - we don't need to agree. > > > >True, in any case the debate can only be had when the lists are back > >up... > > > >Chris > > > >-- > >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield > >_______________________________________________ > >imc-uk-emergency mailing list > >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org > >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Overloaded with spam? With MSN 8, you can filter it out >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=32&DI=1059 > >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency > > > >With Yahoo! Mail you can--0-1342180249-1048886087=:20400-- >--===============32650815944888678== Content-Type: text/plain; >charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline >_______________________________________________ imc-uk-emergency mailing >list imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency >--===============32650815944888678==-- From chris at croome.net Fri Mar 28 22:37:57 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:37:57 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20030328223757.GC1533@croome.net> Hi On Fri 28-Mar-2003 at 08:34:21PM +0000, Andrew Robertson wrote: > > I am wandering whether there is concrete evidence that the new > al-jazeera english site was attacked or is it maybe. It's looking like a maybe to me at the moment. I have just checked it again and it actually redirects to a web interface for setting up a web site! https://english.aljazeera.net:19638/webhost/rollout/site Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Fri Mar 28 23:56:00 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:56:00 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks In-Reply-To: <20030328223757.GC1533@croome.net> References: <20030328223757.GC1533@croome.net> Message-ID: <20030328235600.GD1533@croome.net> Hi Some more info on this: Notice: aljazeera.net website is offline. URL forwarding traffic to aljazeera.net has been suspended due to an overwhelming amount of traffic that has interupted services for our customers. http://www.aljazeera.net/ ================================================================ For Immediate Release March 27, 2003 Contact: Dotster Inc. dotnews at dotster.com ALJAZEERA.NET DOMAIN HACKED AND MOVED TO MYDOMAIN.COM Arab satellite TV network???s nameservers changed to MyDomain URL forwarding service by hacker; MyDomain reacts by suspending service. VANCOUVER, Wash. ??? MyDomain.com, host to more than 600,000 domain names using its free URL forwarding and e-mail services, discovered this morning the domain aljazeera.net had been moved to MyDomain servers. MyDomain has learned from NavLink, the company that hosts the aljazeera.net Web site from its data centers in France, that Al Jazeera???s domain name account at Network Solutions was compromised. The hacker changed the Web site???s nameservers to point to MyDomain nameservers and erected a page displaying the American flag. In response, MyDomain has disabled its free URL forwarding service to the domain aljazeera.net. NavLink has confirmed to MyDomain that it has regained access to the account at Network Solutions and changed the nameservers back to the correct settings. The nameserver changes typically take between 24 and 72 hours to propagate on the Internet. http://mydomain.com/about/aljazeera -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Sat Mar 29 10:20:54 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:20:54 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Script kiddies advocating DDoS attacks Message-ID: <20030329102054.GA4096@croome.net> Hi You only need one script kiddy to launch a DDoS it is _not_ collective action. If, for example, CNN had been DDoS'ed of the net as some of these postings have advocated things like the use of napalm which was reported on CNN wouldn't have got out: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CNN303A.html Do people really think that Indymedia isn't vunerable to a DDoS? Perhaps it's only after it's too late and the internet has been totally fucked up that people might realise that this kind of behaviour on the net is totally innapropriate :-( This is all the stuff from the last days advocating a DDoS: http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60182&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60183&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60143&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60012&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59977&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59944&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59787&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59763&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59739&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59736&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59548&group=webcast http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59427&group=webcast Personally I have more useful things to do like going on a demo today and reporting on it than replying to all this nonsense. Sorry if this is email is grumpy, I didn't get enough sleep and this shit is really pissing me off :-( Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From ionnek at gmx.net Sat Mar 29 11:36:03 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:36:03 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Script kiddies advocating DDoS attacks In-Reply-To: <20030329102054.GA4096@croome.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329111856.0288ecd0@pop.gmx.net> chris, I don't know if this is the time to reply to you about the ddos, you're so angry. But I'll try anyway. I'm sorry if you feel wound up by yet another ddos intervention. It is just very important to me to consider in which ways this technology can and can't make sense, and where the risks for indy are. At 10:20 29/03/03, Chris Croome wrote: >You only need one script kiddy to launch a DDoS it is _not_ >collective action. You are right - and I just wrote a long reply to one of them. Also agree that sabotaging the internet is in a way cutting the branch we're sitting on. Without any positive outcome. On the other hand, like any tool, I think DDos can also be used as an efficient, collective political action tool. Certainly not if someone downloads a script somewhere and posts it on indy. But kind of "half manual" ddos attacks can make sense if they are embedded in a larger campaign. The campaign against the Lufthansa operates on all channels. It's basically an image pollution campaign against an airline that is operational in deporting people. The "deportation class" uses traditional demos on airports, they inform passengers, pilotes, stewards about the deportation practice and also about what they can do against it. The campaign is based on the "no one is illegal" network all over Germany, people who help asylum seekers, lobby against racism and racist laws, go to demos. The campaign interferes cleverly with the annual shareholder meetings, and once, they did a ddos attack. they didn't use one strong computer trying to bring the new lufthansa internet presence down. They used a script that would only work if many people participated, and they focussed on a mass participation of 13000 in their press release. In this sense, I think ddosses can be more than just dangerous, irresponsible script kid pranks. As to the danger for indymedia - for some reason I'm not that worried that indymedia gets ddos attacked. Its just not the usual target. People who oppose indymedia, I think, would use other ways to bring us down. For me, the danger for indymedia is always that we may be held liable for what's posted on the newswire. We try to make clear the character of an open platform (see ed guidelines), which is only restricted by the editorial guidelines. But considering that they sued imc netherlands for just providing a link to the incriminated website "radical", I guess that we are always at risk. On the other hand, I don't want to get into a mode of self-censorship. it is a riddle. Ionnek >If, for example, CNN had been DDoS'ed of the net as some of these >postings have advocated things like the use of napalm which was >reported on CNN wouldn't have got out: > > http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CNN303A.html > >Do people really think that Indymedia isn't vunerable to a DDoS? > >Perhaps it's only after it's too late and the internet has been >totally fucked up that people might realise that this kind of >behaviour on the net is totally innapropriate :-( > >This is all the stuff from the last days advocating a DDoS: > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60182&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60183&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60143&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60012&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59977&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59944&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59787&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59763&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59739&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59736&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59548&group=webcast > > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59427&group=webcast > >Personally I have more useful things to do like going on a demo >today and reporting on it than replying to all this nonsense. > >Sorry if this is email is grumpy, I didn't get enough sleep and this >shit is really pissing me off :-( > >Chris > >-- >Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield >_______________________________________________ >imc-uk-emergency mailing list >imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org >http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency From ionnek at gmx.net Sat Mar 29 11:58:33 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:58:33 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] 60182 hidden - why? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329115720.0288c040@pop.gmx.net> There was a double posting titled "Hack attack! Taking down criminal media sites" http://uk.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=60182&group=webcast I spent about an hour replying to one of them. When I had finished, I realised that BOTH versions of the posting were hidden. Was that a mistake? Because if not, I would feel rather irritated. I see, like Chris, that there is a debate going on about ddos attacks on our newswire. Mainly rather thoughtless postings, as far as I am concerned, were people advocate the use of ddos, in a - again my opinion - half-baked and sometimes actually endangering way. Chris is trying to keep it at bay, arguing that all ddos attacks should be considered as spam and defining all ddos attacks as attacks against freedom of speech. Although I agree with him that these calls are getting a bit too much, I am, at present, still convinced that it makes sense to argue about these postings in comments rather than hiding them. They are not the kind of disruptive postings as we get from harlequin. and, hey, I'm really pissed off that my masterpiece :-) was hidden! (cause I have a right to radical speech as well!) and without notifying emergency of features as well! grrrr. Can somebody please explain? Ionnek From ionnek at gmx.net Sat Mar 29 13:35:22 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:35:22 +0000 Subject: [Imc-uk-features] [imc-uk-emergency] DDoS - definition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133242.028e9c10@pop.gmx.net> Definition: Distributed Denial of Service Refers to DoS (Denial of Service) - an acronym for the disruption that results from an attack on a network. Hackers execute a DoS with the intent of blocking individuals' ability to access Web sites or e-mail. The most common form of DoS results from an attacker who sends so many messages to a Web site that it can't respond to regular users or it shuts down completely (see: broadcast storm). DoS is a criminal act, even if done as a prank; major attacks are aggressively investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice. DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service," an attack in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing a DoS for users of the targeted system. The flood of incoming messages to the target system essentially forces it to shut down, thereby denying service to legitimate users. from: http://www.netlingo.com From ian at videonetwork.org Sat Mar 29 13:47:55 2003 From: ian at videonetwork.org (ian i-contact) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:47:55 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] feature proposal Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> still having trouble mailing to list... two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's excellent Baghdad diary - http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast - if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to UK site ) secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting venue hidden - why ? if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to the list with an explaination of why an article should be removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? cheers ian From melendro333 at yahoo.com Sat Mar 29 18:13:28 2003 From: melendro333 at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sara=20Melendro?=) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:13:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] bilderberg article In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> Message-ID: <20030329181328.65981.qmail@web11002.mail.yahoo.com> hi ian, i can't tell you who hidde the Bilderberg post coz i don't know but i was doing 'cleaning' that day and someone else from imc sent me an email asking me why had it been hidden and if I had done it. I hadn't and I went back to the edit. page to read it and found it quite racist but I read it today again, and it has different content, is this possible? could the links have been messed up? is definitely not the same article!! (unless i read the wrong one then) But that same day(thursday i think) i kept getting different articles to the ones that were suppose to come up when cliking the title. Maybe that's an explanation, i'm not sure. Or maybe not and someone is playing it wrong... sara. ian i-contact wrote:still having trouble mailing to list... two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's excellent Baghdad diary - http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast - if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to UK site ) secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting venue hidden - why ? if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to the list with an explaination of why an article should be removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? cheers ian _______________________________________________ imc-uk-emergency mailing list imc-uk-emergency at email-lists.org http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-emergency --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - For a better Internet experience -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030329/a27572a1/attachment.html From ionnek at gmx.net Sat Mar 29 18:49:29 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:49:29 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-features] about hiding In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329184803.028ceba0@pop.gmx.net> hi Ian thanks for your mail & hope you don't mind if I use it to publicly give my view about hiding. I don't think that anybody is abusing their passwords. I guess that you're aware that lots of "new" people have started to take responsibility to "clean" the newswire. You probably know from experience that most hiding is rather straigthforward - I mean double postings, party rants, BNP press releases, repeat postings, spam. In the "old" UK group (I refer to the website imc-uk), we went through a long process re hiding - in the beginning, the feats list was notified of every hiding, and reasons were given. Thats how the guidelines emerged, slowly and collectively. As time went on, we became a bit sloppy about notifying the list, cause everybody knew what the others were doing anyway. Then the Manchester and Lanc network meetings happened, new people got involved. In my view, in this situation, the list should be notified of hidden articles. Maybe not necessarily double postings, but everything that isn't completely obvious. Good example is the Bilderberg posting. (by the way, it wasn't me who hid it) For you, Ian, it's absolutely no problem. For me, this Bilderberg thing is antisemitic, and I know from prior experience that it's unlikely that we'll come to an agreement about that. But I don't think this is a big problem. I'm not going to spend my days screening the newswire for Bilderberg postings, I might not like them but I have better things to do. It helps if people who are not working directly on the imc-uk site jump into the discussion, or point to things they think should be (not) hidden. To sum up - I find it incredibly important to publicly discuss our policies, even if they are not coherent. After all, we are a very diverse group, with views as diverse as the indy users themselves. But we need to further develop the ground-rules about posting and hiding, although, as a diverse group, we'll never come out with a fixed procedure. bye, Ionnek At 13:47 29/03/03, you wrote: >still having trouble mailing to list... > >two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's >excellent Baghdad diary - >http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast >- if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got >a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to UK >site ) > > >secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of >articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? >somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get >worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being >hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes >about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting >venue hidden - why ? > >if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to >the list with an explaination of why an article should be >removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? > >cheers >ian At 13:47 29/03/03, ian i-contact wrote: >still having trouble mailing to list... > >two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's >excellent Baghdad diary - >http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast >- if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got >a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to UK >site ) > > >secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of >articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? >somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get >worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being >hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes >about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting >venue hidden - why ? > >if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to >the list with an explaination of why an article should be >removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? > >cheers >ian From ionnek at gmx.net Sat Mar 29 18:56:46 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:56:46 +0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-features] feature proposal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329185049.028c7ec0@pop.gmx.net> At 13:47 29/03/03, ian i-contact wrote: >still having trouble mailing to list... > >two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's >excellent Baghdad diary - >http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast >- if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got >a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to UK >site ) I looked at the newswire posting Ian mentioned (couldn't find a feature about it on Bristol site). I didn't read the entire thing, but from the intro and a few diary entries I read, it looks excellent. It gives an introduction about why Jo Wilding is in Iraq, followed by extensive subjective diary entries. I propose to put a link to it in the "alternative media" feature. Like: "check Jo Wilding's diary from Iraq" in the last line of the first paragraph. thanks for the info. Ionnek >secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of >articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? >somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get >worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being >hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes >about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting >venue hidden - why ? > >if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to >the list with an explaination of why an article should be >removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? > >cheers >ian From chris at croome.net Sun Mar 30 02:53:01 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 02:53:01 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Bust thumbnail on front page Message-ID: <20030330015301.GB7530@croome.net> Hi The Menwith hill thumbnail on the UK front page, which was referenced from this NC page: http://nc.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/3315.php Seems to have gone AWOL for some unknown reason :-( If someone can put it on the UK server and change the src url that would probably be best. The original is here: http://chris.croome.net/photos/2003/0322/095_Anti-War_Protestors_pre.jpg Please don't reference it from this address though cos it's only on a domestic ADSL line and it would melt it! Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Sun Mar 30 11:52:48 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:52:48 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] M29 newswire items that need linking in Message-ID: <20030330105248.GB12083@croome.net> Hi These newswire items need adding into the M29 feature (which looks great BTW :-) Brixton photos http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60316&group=webcast Manchester BBC photos http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60323&group=webcast Edinburgh photos http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60344&group=webcast Edinburgh photos, inc sit-down http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60412&group=webcast ESSO picket Todmorden, West Yorkshire http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60326&group=webcast Oxford photos http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60256&group=webcast Chris PS the Menwith thumbnail still needs fixing: http://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/2003-March/000034.html PPS I'm trying to resist replying to this (more ddos stuff...): http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60409&group=webcast -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From melendro333 at yahoo.com Sun Mar 30 12:19:20 2003 From: melendro333 at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sara=20Melendro?=) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:19:20 +0100 (BST) Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] question about 'cleaning' Message-ID: <20030330111920.76497.qmail@web11007.mail.yahoo.com> hi, just want to know general opinion. If there is a post by the likes of harlequin which clearly deserves to go, but someone else has replied to it, do you hide it even if this also takes away the response? sara- learning ; ) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - For a better Internet experience -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030330/e5a2cf35/attachment.html From ian at videonetwork.org Sun Mar 30 16:35:24 2003 From: ian at videonetwork.org (ian i-contact) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:35:24 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-features] feature proposal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329185049.028c7ec0@pop.gmx.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030330162929.0242c688@mail.videonetwork.org> with all due respect ionekk - I think Jo's diary deserves its own feature - its great first hand reports shes putting out and is totally in spirit with what indymedia is all about. In my opinion a small link in another feature does not do this justice. We have a feature already up on BIMC ( frontpage - scroll down four or five features...) with photo. I'm gonna put this up later on tonight if theres no other objections. cheers ian At 18:56 3/29/2003 +0000, ionnek wrote: >At 13:47 29/03/03, ian i-contact wrote: >>still having trouble mailing to list... >> >>two things - i wanna propose a feature on Peace activist Jo Wilding's >>excellent Baghdad diary - >>http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3477&group=webcast >>- if there is no objections i'll put it up tommorow..( we've already got >>a piece done on front of Bristol indymedia, so i'll just transfer it to >>UK site ) > >I looked at the newswire posting Ian mentioned (couldn't find a feature >about it on Bristol site). I didn't read the entire thing, but from the >intro and a few diary entries I read, it looks excellent. >It gives an introduction about why Jo Wilding is in Iraq, followed by >extensive subjective diary entries. I propose to put a link to it in the >"alternative media" feature. Like: "check Jo Wilding's diary from Iraq" in >the last line of the first paragraph. > >thanks for the info. > >Ionnek > > > > >>secondly i agree with ionekk here - i'm disgusted to see the amount of >>articles that have been hidden recently. what the fuck is going on ? >>somebody is playing editor with the newswire and i'm starting to get >>worried. I've seen three examples in the past 3 days of articles being >>hidden when there is no reason to do so... a geezer in Bristol who writes >>about the Bilderberg group had his announcement of this years meeting >>venue hidden - why ? >> >>if people are going to hide newswire articles surely they must write to >>the list with an explaination of why an article should be >>removed? someone is abusing their pass word - may be it needs to be changed ? >> >>cheers >>ian From chris at croome.net Sun Mar 30 22:23:06 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:23:06 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] M29 newswire items that need linking in In-Reply-To: <20030330105248.GB12083@croome.net> References: <20030330105248.GB12083@croome.net> Message-ID: <20030330212306.GB14753@croome.net> Hi Some more M29 things added to this list of stuff to be added to the feature follows (not sure abt Dublin since it's not in the UK...). On Sun 30-Mar-2003 at 11:52:48AM +0100, Chris Croome wrote: > > Brixton photos > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60316&group=webcast > > Manchester BBC photos > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60323&group=webcast Manchester BBC report and photos http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60456&group=webcast > Edinburgh photos > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60344&group=webcast > > Edinburgh photos, inc sit-down > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60412&group=webcast Glasgow, report, heavy policing http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60465&group=webcast > ESSO picket Todmorden, West Yorkshire > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60326&group=webcast > > Oxford photos > http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60256&group=webcast Enfield report http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60499&group=webcast Dublin vid (windoze format, I've not looked at it) http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60498&group=webcast ========= > PS the Menwith thumbnail still needs fixing: > > http://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/2003-March/000034.html The thumbnail from NC seems to be loading OK now, weird. Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Sun Mar 30 22:49:30 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:49:30 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-process] Upcoming Actions: Mayday: Critical Mass In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20030330214930.GC14753@croome.net> Hi I guess this isn't the right list for this, but never mind :-) On Sun 30-Mar-2003 at 08:53:45PM +0100, rkn wrote: > Hi everyone, just requesting that a link to the Critical Mass > website (http://cmlondon.enrager.net) be added to the blue > upcoming actions panel on the IMCUK site. Both the OurMayday and > GLATUC sites are listed there already. I suggested the GLATUC be added, I'm sure nobody would object to this being added. This is the revised HTML (minus font tags) acronym element added: May 1st: UK-wide OurMayday | GLATUC | Critical Mass Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From chris at croome.net Sun Mar 30 23:11:23 2003 From: chris at croome.net (Chris Croome) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:11:23 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Re: [Imc-uk-process] Upcoming Actions: Mayday: Critical Mass In-Reply-To: <20030330214930.GC14753@croome.net> References: <20030330214930.GC14753@croome.net> Message-ID: <20030330221123.GD14753@croome.net> Hi Looking at the GLATUC site the link might be best to this page: http://www.glatuc.org.uk/mayday.html Revised HTML: May 1st: UK-wide OurMayday | GLATUC | Critical Mass Chris -- Sheffield IMC: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sheffield From ian at videonetwork.org Mon Mar 31 00:57:01 2003 From: ian at videonetwork.org (ian i-contact) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:57:01 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] feature uploaded Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030331005644.0241ac68@mail.videonetwork.org> >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:49:14 +0100 >To: imc-uk-features-lists.indymedia. >From: ian i-contact >Subject: feature uploaded > >uploaded feature on Jo's Iraq diary > >cheers >ian > >ps- we're testing a mirror for Bristol indymedia at the moment - its at >http://bristolimc.dyndns.org/ - play with it and tell us if you come >across any breaks... From lists at j12.org Sat Mar 29 12:30:39 2003 From: lists at j12.org (Space Bunny) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:30:39 -0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] 60182 hidden - why? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329115720.0288c040@pop.gmx.net> Message-ID: 29.03.2003 11:58:33, ionnek wrote: >There was a double posting titled "Hack attack! Taking down criminal media >sites" > >http://uk.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=60182&group=webcast > >I spent about an hour replying to one of them. When I had finished, I >realised that BOTH versions of the posting were hidden. >Was that a mistake? Because if not, I would feel rather irritated. yes it was a mistake that both were hidden. 60182 should now be restored. The repeat remaing hidden. sorry. I have been helping on trying to kill double posting because stuff drops from newswire so quick. Space Bunny - http://imcscotland.org From allie.schumi at btopenworld.com Fri Mar 28 15:40:01 2003 From: allie.schumi at btopenworld.com (Allie Schumi) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:40:01 -0000 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] Message-ID: <003201c2f540$4c976ee0$365b8351@tecra520> Hi I think you have made a mistake on your webiste where you are telling people that there is 'direct action' being taken in Scotland. You say the assembly time is 1pm. the stop the war coalition website for edinburgh says: As Bush and Blair intensify their bombing of Iraq, we must intensify and expand our anti-war opposition. We are calling for people all over Scotland to demonstrate in Edinburgh this Saturday (29th). ... Assemble 2pm at Waterloo Place near the US Consulate (not far from Waverley train station). Speakers list to follow. Cheers Allie PS - wondering where you are based and if you need any admin support etc? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/imc-uk-emergency/attachments/20030328/78040e59/attachment.html From sb at j12.org Mon Mar 31 05:16:17 2003 From: sb at j12.org (Space Bunny) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:16:17 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] bilderberg article In-Reply-To: <20030329181328.65981.qmail@web11002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <93ECMGJGGCMHOJA0A8VT42OL04SM61V.3e87c111@zora> 29.03.2003 18:13:28, Sara Melendro wrote: > i can't tell you who hidde the Bilderberg post coz i don't know I do, it was me who hide one of posts: http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59732 because it links to the racist: http://www.americanfreepress.net/ though worse of their output is not on their website it is not good to have links to nazis on the site. e.g. they only give subject listing at: http://www.americanfreepress.net/Immigration/immigration.html and another of my comrades in IMC Scotland later hide another without link as they felt even more stongly that even without link the article should be hidden. http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59907 I also consulted others in IMC Scotland. I held back on comment pending this, and reflextion on implictions for the development of IMC. This does not come at a good time, but never mind. The American Free Press which came out of Spotlight, biggest holocaust denial paper in US. also of interest may be some my views in exchanges a while back: http://www.j12.org/files/bilder.htm but I will have to update, and these notes are not pitch at present IMC consideration of this article. please feel free to ring me if you want to know more. I am happy to email any IMCers who don't have my number who want it. I will be happy to call back to any UK landline. cheers, Space Bunny =========================================================================== http://freenetproject.org From ionnek at gmx.net Mon Mar 31 10:59:12 2003 From: ionnek at gmx.net (ionnek) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:59:12 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] lists up - let's use them In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030331105604.02618a20@pop.gmx.net> Hi all, looks like the lists are back up - I propose to let emergency fall asleep until the next emergency. Ionnek From anarchobabe at fempages.org Mon Mar 31 12:05:49 2003 From: anarchobabe at fempages.org (AnarchoBabe) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:05:49 +0100 Subject: [imc-uk-emergency] feature proposal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030329133137.00bbe430@mail.gurtlush.org.uk> Message-ID: Hi all, thanks very much to the Bristol lot for getting involved and interested again in the ImcUk webpage and network project. It is good to see people from Bristol getting finally interested into the revitalised network project after taking so long an absence. I guess everybody is happy to intensify the links to ImcBristol and to share input, opinions, information and resources, including features, reports, newswire articles and else. However, I would appreciate if disagreements could be resolved more politely, less imitading and less self-righteous, as we want to keep the lists positive and constructive, especially if we are discussing on focussing about antisemitic content in the shared newswire. http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59907 This article about the Bilderberger has been hidden by me because of weird generalising nonfactual religious discriminative content, which is moreover notnews, inaccurate, disruptive, hierarchical and repeatedly posted. I have been active long enough in antifascist groups in Germany to know that it is fucking bullshit which does not require justification. quote: Keep a close eye too on Zionist attempts to rebuild Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, to expand Israel's borders and to wipe out the Palestinian people. The Zionist eye is firmly on the main chance: feeding the fire of interreligious hatred amongst the worlds three monotheistic religions. well, this seems to me an obvious reason to hide the article and rest of the article is no better, just more subtle, but still provides enough weird conspiracy madness to hide. More worrying to me is that this author apparantly is able to be involved in the Indymedia project without getting chucked out, as this person apparantly does not understand the editorial guidelines or the philosophy Indymedia comes from and represents. Also I want to remind everybody, that we were having a discussion and agreement on the imcuk feature list to hidde more and more strictly unrelevenant stuff during the war, as otherwise news reports about direct action against the war in the UK drop out too quickly from the newswire and are a pain to try to retrieve them via the search option. http://www.fempages.org