[Imc-communication] Indymedia North Carolina / Chapel Hill = dead

[Alster]

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Hi,

it seems like Indymedia North Carolina / Chapel Hill has been dead for
quite some while. Attempts to resurrect it have failed. When visiting
the URLs of this 'approved/official Indymedia Center (IMC)' (which can
thus be reached through the 'indymedia.org' domain name, meant to tell
people that this is a serious IMC),

http://chapelhill.indymedia.org/
http://nc.indymedia.org/

you come across a lot of racial hate, pro-nazi propaganda, commercial
spam, exploitable security holes and other stuff which makes me think
this web site should not remain accessible in the same way it is now.

Unfortunately, this IMC seems to have evaporated, all of its mailing
lists have not been moderated for a pretty long time and have thus a lot
of emails pending for moderation:

imc-nc:
  333 pending,
  owners: wsgural at juno.com, jdevins at email.unc.edu
imc-nc-editorialimc-nc-editorial:
  322 pending,
  owners: wsgural at juno.com, jdevins at email.unc.edu
imc-nc-announce:
  127 pending,
  owners: adm at decry.org
imc-nc-tech:
  284 pending,
  owners: wsgural at juno.com, jdevins at email.unc.edu
imc-nc-video:
  102 pending,
  owners: adm at decry.org, adonnycl at students.depaul.edu, ginn at cornell.edu

To stop these mailing lists from continuing to act as spam traps, I
suggest to deactivate all of them. I also suggest to deactivate the
'nc at indymedia.org' email alias.

To stop the website from being continuously exploited and Indymedia
users from being mislead, I recommend to deactivate the web hosting and
to make site backups available to some reliable IMC techs instead. For
the same reasons, I also recommend to set the DNS records so that they
will point to the newly founded Carolina, USA, based IMC (whose exact
name I'm not currently aware of).

I also suggest to mark this IMC (ID 58) as dead in the IMC database and
to remove any outdated information (contacts, URLs, feeds) which relates
to it.

All action should be taken in a way that it is revertable in case the
IMC should be revived at some point.

A copy of this email goes to all email addresses which are currently
setup as contacts for this IMC in one or the other way.

Should there be too many people thinking this is not the right approach
for dealing with this situation, then I suggest all involved groups to
decide for themselves how they will deal with this situation and how
they assure the continued reliability of the infrastucture they maintain.

Being aware it be the 'right' way to do it, but a way no mentally sane
person would ever want to go, I will not try to convince my local IMC to
make this an IMC process proposal and attempt to follow up on each step
which would be involved. I think it is a pity that there is no other way
to cause a formal disaffiliation of an IMC which has long been dead (but
please do not include me in a on-list discussion on this topic at this
point - you're welcome to email me personally or to start a new thread
on this topic, though).

Alster
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