[Imc-uk-process] .indymedia.org.uk emails

[yossarian]

Hi everybody, 

Just a quick note to say I'm not really in favour of personal
.indymedia.org.uk emails.  I am quite torn about this because I think I
would be very proud to have such an email, but I worry that it would be
off-putting to new, less experienced, or less technical people if there
was a group of us who had .indymedia.org.uk addresses, and a (probably
much larger) group who didn't know that they could have one, how to get
one, etc.  

It's tempting.  Ideally, I'd very much like to have an IMAP account with
a UK indy suffix, but this is in many ways an even worse thing as the
potential for abusive, insensitive, just plain stupid stuff happening
becomes much stronger:  the Tony G controversy that has been playing out
could have been / could be much worse if control of an email address
was/were involved in it.

However, I also see many benefits coming from having an address like
this:  better security, cooler domain names, group spirit, etc.

Has anybody thought about emulating the Italians and setting up a sort of
http://britistici.org a la http://autistici.org ?  It seems to me like
that would have a lot of the benefits and not too many of the
disadvantages, and could allow more flexibility in terms of how things
get done.

Sorry I haven't chimed in sooner with concerns, things have been really
hectic here and I've not had much time to follow the development of this
one, 

Y

ps I think that having emails for collectives is great as long as nobody
can send from them.  
pps this is all just a very rushed opinion on something that may already
be decided, I dunno.






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