[Imc-communication] [IMC-Tech] proposal to imc-process

[Mike Lehman]

Madison should stay on the list. It has brief problems from time to 
time, but is usually up and active with local news, as it is right now.
Mike Lehman
UC IMC

John Milton wrote:
> http://montreal.indymedia.org/
> is still up as an archive with a foward link to an active site...
>
> Please ben and others, this is why we have "IMC Process list" process to 
> control cities list membership! Could we please take this stuff there 
> rather than just "locking folks out of their apartment"
>
> ben wrote:
>   
>> Sorry to extend this thread unnecessarily, but wanted to confirm what
>> others had pointed out about stlimc.org.
>>
>> I was on stlimc editorial collective, and it voted to disband several
>> months ago in lieu of regrouping and/or rethinking its mission to local
>> community.  That effort is visible at reboot.stlimc.org, and stlimc.org
>> for now has inactive feature column but very active newswire.
>>
>> ben wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I should have double checked that last list. I originally found over a
>>> dozen dead imc links in cities.inc by manually going through them but I
>>> couldn't face going through the 50 sites in the USA or the similar number
>>> of european sites so I used an online link validator and didn't double
>>> check the results.
>>>
>>> After the replies to the previous list there is clearer status on some...
>>>
>>>
>>> video.indymedia.org - now accepting uploads after problem being noticed
>>> radio.indymedia.org - website is dead but server was used for g8
>>> streaming boston.indymedia.org - down at time of test, now up again and
>>> fine kenya.indymedia.org - off but apparently coming back really soon
>>> www.stlimc.org - no editorial features, collective reorganizing
>>> hamilton.indymedia.org - closed to publishing but perhaps to return
>>> melbourne.indymedia.org - publishing suspended, but perhaps to return
>>> bc.indymedia.org / victoria.indymedia.org - off for now, may relaunch
>>> ontario.indymedia.org - 8 months of downtime. up now, just very slow or
>>> timing out. only spam in newswire this year.
>>>
>>> These can all be assumed to be coming back and it would be great to hear
>>> anything people know about the rest of them...
>>>
>>> The revised list has 27 sites (out of about 180) which seem to be dead,
>>> broken, hacked or closed.
>>>
>>> http://nigeria.indymedia.org/
>>> http://montreal.indymedia.org/
>>> http://burma.indymedia.org/
>>> http://india.indymedia.org/
>>> http://armenia.indymedia.org/
>>> http://darwin.indymedia.org/
>>> http://brisbane.indymedia.org/
>>> http://croatia.indymedia.org/
>>> http://belgrade.indymedia.org/
>>> http://winnipeg.indymedia.org
>>> http://belgrade.indymedia.org
>>> http://chilesur.indymedia.org
>>> http://bigmuddyimc.org/
>>> http://idaho.indymedia.org/
>>> http://ithaca.indymedia.org/
>>> http://madison.indymedia.org/
>>> http://www.ntimc.org/
>>> http://tallahassee.indymedia.org/
>>> http://tampabay.indymedia.org
>>> http://vermont.indymedia.org/
>>> http://wvl.indymedia.org/
>>> http://biotech.indymedia.org/
>>> http://tnimc.org/ (forbiden)
>>> http://detriot.org/ (hacked?)
>>> http://mumbai.indymedia.org/ (hacked?)
>>> http://beirut.indymedia.org/ (collective desolved a few months ago)
>>> http://process.indymedia.org/faq.php3 (long gone)
>>>
>>>
>>> That's almost 1 in 6 links in the cities.inc apparently dead (and there
>>> are almost certainly others which are working sites but with no active
>>> collective anymore). So, I still would like to see a proposal go to
>>> process with the aim of weeding out whatever sites continue to dead or
>>> closed.
>>>
>>> Ben
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