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A list of Usenet newsgroups, Internet mailing lists and other resources of use to the online activist.

An ACTION/EFF FAQ by Stanton McCandlish

Updated: Oct. 17, 1995

Archived at: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq

See also /pub/Activism/activ_groups.faq, the Online Activism Organizations List.

• IMPORTANT: Subscribe commands, and the like, when given in quotes mean "type this command, but without the quotes." Likewise <firstname> <last-name> means "put your name here, without the angle-brackets." Unless otherwise noted, all parts of the command should be on the same line in your subscribe message. Gopher resources are, when possible, pointed to with full paths, rather than menu titles.

• IMPORTANT: Subscribe commands, and the like, when given in quotes mean "type this command, but without the quotes." Likewise <firstname> <last-name> means "put your name here, without the angle-brackets." Unless otherwise noted, all parts of the command should be on the same line in your subscribe message. Example: Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe effector-online" means send an Internet email message to listserv@eff.org, with a message body consisting of the single line:

subscribe effector-online

without the "quotes".

Gopher resources are, when possible, pointed to with full paths, rather than

menu titles. If your gopher client cannot handle paths (directory names),

please ask the producers of that software to add support for paths, and URLs,

in their next version. You’ll need to see the documentation for your gopher

client to see how it expects paths to be specified. For the standard unix

gopher, for example, the syntax is:

gopher -p <path> <site> <port - optional if port is 70>

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 <mech@eff.org> and FAQ-ized and distributed by L. Detweiler. 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:

• SCOPE: This list includes activism forums, and topical forums (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:

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 2^nd part of this FAQ, the Online Activism Organizations List. Government materials will be in a 3^rd list some time soon. In the mean time, see several documents providing info on govt contact and service online, available from ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/. Exception: Organizational items of interest that provide more than "house organ" content may appear in this list.

• YOUR LISTING: Please! Check your entry regularly and make sure it is up to date. If your forum/pub/site does not have a description, please send one ASAP, or there’s not really much point in listing you. Please expand on your forum/publication/site’s contact information as much as possible. Thank you.

• THANKS to: Carol Woodbury, Steve Barber, Simona Nass, Art McGee, Ed Cavazos, John S. Quarterman, Jon Lebkowsky, Shari Steele, L. Detweiler, Elizabeth Reid, Bernard Aboba, Ellen Pack, Eric Hughes, Derek Atkins, Tom Gray, Karl Lui Barrus, Malcolm Arnold, Mike Godwin, Shari Steele, Phil Agre, Jim Warren, Carl Kadie, Dave Banisar, and all the other folks we pumped for info.

• CONTRIBUTIONS: We are constantly looking to update this list, so if you know of other resources that we should add, are are making something new available at your site, please forward the name and description of the material, and contact information, to Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>. Please also inform of any updates or changes that need to be made.

• DISTRIBUTION: This FAQ is Copyright 1995 Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is made available as a freeware service to the online community, on behalf of the ACTION forum.

[* Systems that charge for access are specifically exempted, as are CD-ROM collections, and similar distribution methods. Just don’t demand a special fee for this file itself, you know what I mean. If in doubt, send email about it.]

[** other than necessary reformatting, such as stripping of linefeeds/ carriage returns, translation to postscript, etc. -i.e. no QUALITATIVE modification of the contents please. If you need to update something, please tell me, and I will make sure the master copy is corrected and a new version distributed.]

The maintainer(s) of this document will greatly appreciate notification of hardcopy publication or inclusion in other non-ephemeral collections (CD-ROM compilations, etc.)

Note that some of this text is borrowed from the promotional literature of the sites/resources described herein. The purpose of such things is to be copied and to spread info, so I can’t see there being any objections, but if you are paranoid about reprint rights, best to contact the organizations yourself and make sure it’s ok. Before printing in any "real" publication, it would be a good idea to do so anyway, just to make sure the info is correct and current.

• EXCERPTING

Journalists, maintainers of other FAQs (e.g. a more specific, say privacy, resource list), and anyone else should feel free to excerpt from this document. Excerpts in articles and books should follow standard acceptable use guidelines. Mainters of FAQs and lists may use and reformat relevant information for their own lists, and simply credit the creators and maintainers of the list in the apropriate manner (e.g. at specfic entries, or in a "thanks to" section, or whatever fits the document format.) Electronic reposts of only sections of the document should include a pointer to the location of the complete file so others can get the entire thing if they wish to do so.

• THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was founded in July of 1990 to ensure that the principles of privacy, open access, and freedom of expression are protected as new communications technologies emerge. Since its inception, EFF has worked to shape our nation’s communications infrastructure and the policies that govern it in order to maintain and enhance intellectual freedom, privacy and other democratic values. We believe that our overriding public goal must be the creation of Electronic Democracy.

Membership & General Info: info@eff.org

• ACTION: The Activism Online Forum

Action is an Internet "mailing list" forum, and serves as a virtual community supporting grassroots political action through networking technology. Action is a focused working group, rather than a chat area.

To subscribe, send a message body of

subscribe ACTION

to listserv@eff.org via internet email.

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• 2600

_2600_Magazine_ list for hacker/phreaker issues. A bit irreverent, shall we say, but sometimes turns to issues of law enformcement, regulation and civil liberties. For info on the magazine itself, see 2600 Magazine under "HARDCOPY PUBLICATIONS".

Subscribe: listserv@bongo.cc.utexas.edu, message body:

• AAASHRAN

AAAS Human Rights Action Network forum.

Subscribe: listserv%gwuvm.bitnet@vtbit.cc.vt.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE AAASHRAN <name>"

• ACTION

The forum for online activism and grassroots political action through networking. Focuses on cooperative discussion between activists and organizations, the devising and completion of projects supporting electronic advocacy and democracy, and postings of important news for the online communications and political action communities. ACTION is a non-organization-specific, tightly focused list. Before joining, please review (and comment upon if you wish) the charter and FAQ for ACTION: see ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/ACTION/ - the list archive. (The entire list is not archived, but important materials will be archived on *.eff.org in the Activism directory and/or other appropriate areas, while list-specific material will be archived in the ACTION subdirectory of Activism. See below for complete paths & URLs.)

Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe ACTION" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/[ACTION/]

Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Activism[/ACTION]

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/[ACTION/]

• ACTIV-L (misc.activism.progressive)

A mailing list that gates the misc.activism.progressive Usenet newsgroup.

ACTIV-L is a moderated forum concerned with "progressive" political

action (human rights, environment, empowerment, media censorship, etc.)

subscribe (??): listserv@mizzou1.bitnet or listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu,

• ALAOIF

American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom’s freedom of expression forum (mainly of interest to librarians, archivists, and those following computers & academic freedom issues.)

Subscribe: listserv@uicvm.uic.edu, message body: "sub alaoif <name>"

• ALERT

[see CPSR ALERT, EPIC ALERT]

• AMEND1-L - ACA Free Speech Issues Discussion Group

The American Communication Association invites subscriptions to its on-line discussion group for Free Speech Issues. The topics include current and historical issues in freedom of expression, reviews of recent books and articles related to free speech, constitutional interpretation, research opportunities, current litigation, communication policy, privacy, censorship, and other areas relating to freedom of expression, both in the United States and elsewhere.

General: Stephen Smith <libertas@comp.uark.edu> Subscribe: listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu, message body:

• Cable Regulation Digest

A newsletter of short articles about cable tv and telecom regulatory issues, of definite relevance to anyone tracking the unfolding of the NII/"Data Superhighway" issues.

General: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org.

Subscribe: listserver@realy.adp.wisc.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE

FTP: ftp.vortex.com, /tv-film-video/cable-reg/

Gopher: vortext.com, 1/tv-film-video/cable-reg

WWW: gopher://vortex.com:70/11/tv-film-video

http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/Cable_Reg/ Finger: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org (current issue returned as finger output)

• CalGovInfo

CPSR’s California public accesss to government information forum. Seeing the great strides CA has made in the area of govt. info online, this is likely to be a hot list for some time to come.

Subscribe: listserv@cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe calgovinfo <name>"

• COMMUNET

Mailing list for discussion of community and civic networks.

Subscribe: listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu or listproc@moose.uvm.edu, message body:

• COMMUNITY-ACCESS

Subscribe: community-access-request@parc.xerox.com, message body:

• Computer PRIVACY Digest (CPD) (ex- Telecom Privacy Digest)

Like RISKS, a moderated digest-format electronic newsletter. It is more open that RISKS or PFD, "and was established to provide a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy. All too often technology is way ahead of the law and society as it presents us with new devices and applications. Technology can enhance and detract from privacy."

WWW: ftp://ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/comp-privacy/

• Computer PRIVACY Forum

[See PRIVACY Forum Digest (PFD)]

• Computer underground Digest (CuD)

Cu-Digest, or CuD, is a more-or-less-weekly on-line electronic journal/news digest. The Digest is intended as a forum for the discussion of legal, ethical, social, and other issues regarding computerized information and communications. We welcome contributions reflecting diversity of thought and perspective, focussed on the computer/telecommunications culture including BBSes, Internet, and public access systems. CuD is focussed especially on alternative groups that exist outside of the conventional net community. General/Moderator/Editor: Jim Thomas <tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu> BITNET: tk0jut2@niu.bitnet <- NOTE: That’s tk*ZERO*jut2 not tk*OH*jut2 Archivists: cudarch@eff.org Subscribe, Internet: listserv@vmd.cs.uiuc.edu, message body:

Subscribe, BITNET: listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet, message body:

/obi/Computer.U.Digest/ (partial mirror)

gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/CuD/CuD

www: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/CuD/

FidoNet FREQ: 1:11/70 (unlisted nodes/points welcome) CompuServe: IBMBBS SIG, DL0 & DL4; LAWSIG, DL1; TELECOM, DL1 GEnie: PF*NPC RT library and VIRUS/SECURITY library.

• Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF)

CAF is a list/newsgroup/archive devoted to issues of computing, freedom of expression, and privacy, especially in relation to the edu-cational and academic communities. CAF is available in several forms, is archived, and has been provided storage space by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a collection of related important documents. comp-academic-freedom-talk (caf-talk) is the interactive discussion version of the list. comp-academic-freedom-batch is a digested version that presents each day’s contributions as a single compilation, rather that a continuous stream of incoming separate messages. comp-academic-freedom-news is a digested version featuring a weekly sample of the most important messages. comp-academic-freedom-abstracts is a weekly digest containing only abstracts rather than the full text of the list. For more detailed information on the versions, send a message body of "LONGINDEX" to listserv@eff.org.

General (editors): Bill Arnold <warnold@eff.org>

Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe

• CNI-Modernization

Some sort of net.commerce stuff. Lousy description, I know. Looking for more info.

Admin: Craig Summerhill <craig@cni.org> Subscribe: listproc@cni.org, message body:

• CPSR ALERT

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility newsletter

Subscribe: listserv@washofc.cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe alert <name>"

• cpsr-global

A new CPSR-sponsored mailing list on global information infrastructure issues.

Moderator: Marsha Woodbury.

Subscribe: listserv@cpsr.org, message body: "subscribe cpsr-global"

• Current Cites

[See Public-Access Computer Systems.]

• CyberWire Dispatch (CWD)

Brock Meek’s newsletter of alerts and articles on information technology and telecom policy. Meeks, who writes from _Communications_Daily_ and WIRED among others, has rare, and often biting, insight into what’s really going on, most of the time. Highly recommended.

Subscribe: majordomo@cyberwerks.com, message body: "subscribe cwd-l"

• Cybermind

"An electronic forum for the discussion of the philosophical and psychological implications of subjectivity in cyberspace...We are interested in particular in the philosophical, psychological/ psychoanalytic and social issues engendered, particularly as they concern the user and the social [realm]...: the psychology of intimacy, the role of gender, the phenomenology of the terminal screen, neurosis and paranoia on the Net, the relationship of lag to community and communi-cation, sex/gender/sexual orientation theory and electronic subjectivity, the role of the symbolic or imaginary in computer communication, the implications of symbolic extensions of the human (‘external memory’, and so forth), fantasy and the hallucinatory aspects of email/USENET groups/MUDs, and the psychoanalysis of lurking."

General: Alan Sondheim <sonheim@panix.com>

Subscribe: majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu, message body:

• Cypherpunks

The Cypherpunks mailing lists exist for those interested in cryptography and it’s political rammifications, programming encryption software, creation of digital cash and electronic banking via secure (and anonymous) crypto tech, local crypto-oriented activism, hacking cypher hardware, and more. There also tends to be much libertarian/ anarcho-capitalist debate as well. The main list is fairly high-traffic. The UK branch generally goes by the name of UK Crypto-Privacy Assoc., and like some of the other local sub-groups, has face-to-face meetings. The CypherWonks list is a split-off that is generally opposed to the anarchic stance of some on the main list. A recent addition to the stable is Cypherpunks Lite, a lower-traffic version for more serious participants. Joining the list requires a membership fee [don’t have address for this yet]. I have no info at the moment on the local groups, other than the Austin & Boston Cypherpunks, so if anyone has info to pass on please do so. There’s now a hardware-oriented sublist also.

Main list admin: Eric Hughes <eric@remailer.net>

Main subscribe: cypherpunks-request@toad.com, message body: "subscribe

Main FTP admin: Eric Hughes <cypherpunks-ftp@csua.berkeley.edu> (Berkeley)

Main FTP: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/ (many mirrors exist)

Main WWW admin: Eric Hughes <cypherpunks-ftp@csua.berkeley.edu>

Main WWW: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks

Hardware admin: J.D. Blair <jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>

Hardware subscribe: cp-hardware-request@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu, message

Austin admin: Jim McCoy <mccoy@bongo.cc.utexas.edu>

Austin subscribe: austin-cypherpunks-request@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu

Austin FTP: ftp.cc.utexas.edu, /pub/cypherpunks/

Austin WWW: ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/pub/cypherpunks/

Boston admin: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>

Boston subscribe: ask cypherpunks-east-request@mit.edu

Wonks admin: cypherwonks-owner@lassie.eunet.fi

Wonks subscribe: majordomo@lists.eunet.fi, message body: "subscribe

Lite admin/subscribe: Inquire with Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>

• DC-Nets

Forum for technical discussion of cryptographic networking protocols and the creation of encrypted, secure networks.

Subscribe: listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu, message body:

• EDLAW

Education and law forum (?)

Subscribe: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu, message body: "subscribe edlaw <name>"

• EduPage & Educom Update

Newsletters of informative and timely summaries of new technological developments and the effects of computer and information tech-nology on education, published by Educom, "a consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology." Even if you are not interested in education issues, this is a valuable (though free) service, and tracks a wide range of comms, computing, market, regulatory and legal issues. EduPage comes out several times per week, while Update is a bi-weekly summary.

General: info@ivory.educom.edu

Subscribe (EduPage): listproc@educom.edu, message body: "subscribe edupage

Subscribe (Update): listproc@educom.edu, message body: "subscribe update

Portugese/Spanish versions: ask edunews@nc-rj.rnp.br

• efa@iinet.com.au (EF-Australia; = aus.org.efa newsgroup/EFA Fido echo)
• eff-austin@tic.com
• EFF-News

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s distribution for EFF newsletters and press releases and other items of note. This is a moderated list/newsgroup that does not allow posts from readers (such postings are redirected to EFF-Talk). EFF-News is a low-traffic list/group, and features each issue of EFFector Online newsletter, as well as announcements, summaries of hearings and conferences, testimony transcripts, etc. A newsletter-only list is also available.

Subscribe (EFFector Online only): listserv@eff.org, message body:

FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/

Gopher: gopher.eff.org

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/

http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ [For topic-sorted archives of news items, see Policy subdirectories; for newsletter backissues, see EFFector directory.]

• EFF-Talk

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s general discussion forum - focuses on EFF policy, cyberspace legal issues, the "data superhighway", networking and activism, and computing futures and potential. EFF-Talk is available as a Usenet newsgroup, a mailing list, and, in some areas, a FidoNet echomail conference. EFF is a 501©(3) US non-profit organization devoted to civil liberties in computing and communications. As with comp.org.eff.news, this newsgroup/list is not archived in full, but important documents are placed in EFF’s online library in the Policy (a.k.a. Issues) directory. See below for full paths and URLs.

Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-talk" Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk FidoNet: Zone 1 - INET.EFF.TALK (not backboned; feed nodes unknown)

• EFFector Online

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s newsletter, EFFector Online (frequency: 1-4 per month), a small journal summarizing important issues of civil liberties in cyberspace. Frequently reports on methods of access to government representatives and info, legal cases of relevance to online communications, activism, "data superhighway" politics, Senate and House hearing testimony, cryptography and privacy, and threat to civil liberties. This is a moderated list/newsgroup that does not allow posts from readers. EFFector Online is a low-traffic list. The EFF-News list carries EFFector, but also includes press releases, hearing summaries, and other relevant documents.

Subscribe (EFFector Online only): listserv@eff.org, message body:

Subscribe (full News list): listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe

• efn@oslonett.no (EF-Norway)
• efj@twics.com (EF-Japan)
• efnh-discuss@mv.MV.COM (EF New Hampshire)
• Electronic Public Information Newsletter (EPIN)

A newsletter dedicated to informing and explaining the policies and practices surrounding the transformation of public information to electronic form. Founded in November 1991, EPIN is published biweekly (24 issues a year) in a paper format. An EPIN summary is distributed free of charge to the Internet community. EPIN is an independent publication with no ties to any stakeholder within the information community. The newsletter is based in the Washington, D.C. area; the editor is James McDonough. The subscription cost is US$249 a year for business and government; US$130 for libraries and public interest organizations and US$65 for individuals.

Subscribe (online summaries): epin@access.digex.net

FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/

Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/E-journals/EPIN

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/

• The Faxing From the Internet FAQ

A list of Frequently Asked Questions & answers about using the Internet to send faxes (fast, free to the user [no long distance call!], and great for activist use); issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz.

Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe fax-faq" FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send fax-faq" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Technical/net-fax.faq Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Technical, net-fax.faq WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Technical/net-fax.faq Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)

• fringeware@io.com (general "interesting stuff" list, w/ fringe feel to it)
• FUTUREC@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (FutureCulture)
• gaynet (Gay/bisexual issues)

(subscribe: Email to "listserv@queernet.org"

• gopher-announce and gopher-news

A moderated mailing list where new gopher servers and software are announced, gopher-announce is probably the best way to learn of new activism-relevant servers (govt. gophers, organization gophers, etc.) General gopher discussion happens on gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu an altogether more verbose and techie mailing list than gopher-announce. (To subscribe to gopher-news, send a request to: gopher-news-request @boombox.micro.umn.edu).

Subscribe: gopher-announce-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu, message body:

• GOVDOC-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Discussion of Government Document Issues)
• hott-list@UCSD.EDU (Hot Off the Press e-pub; networking issues)
• ifreedom@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.CA (intellectual freedom)

(subscribe: Email to "listserv@snoopy.ucis.dal.ca"

• imp-interest@thumper.bellcore.com (Internet Mercantile Protocol)
• INETBIB

List focusing on Internet usage in libraries (of relevance to activists due to public access to information and intellectual freedom issues). NOTE: This list concentrates on German libraries (and those in other German-speaking areas), and the primary language of the list is German, though English posts are accepted.

Admin: michael.schaarwaechter@zb.ub.uni-dortmund.de

• INTCAR-L@american.edu (computer assisted reporting outside the United States)

Subscribe: listserv@american.edu, message body: "SUBSCRIBE INTCAR-L

• The Internet Press

A list of electronic publications about Internet/Usenet, issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz & John M. Higgins. Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe ipress" FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send ipress" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_epub.list Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_epub.list WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_epub.list Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)

• The Internet Services FAQ

A list of interesting and useful services and resources on the internet, issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz. Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe is-faq" FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send is-faq" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_services.faq Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_services.faq WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_services.faq Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)

• interpedia@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Internet encyclopedia project)
• IPCT-L@GUVM.CCF.GEORGETOWN.EDU (interpersonal computing & technology)
• Journal of American Underground Computing (JAUC, TJOAUC)

A free online newsletter similar to CuD, but longer and monthly. Highly recommended. Topics frequently include online advocacy, political alerts, info on net.culture, privacy, cryptography, censorship and more.

Admin (editorial): comments@fennec.com

Admin (technical): dfox@fennec.con, dfox@fc.net

Subscribe: ask sub@fennec.com

FTPmail: ask info@fennec.com

Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/CuD/JAUC

WWW: ftp://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Zines/JAUC/

• LITA Newsletter

The LITA Newsletter (ISSN 0196-1799) is published quarterly by the Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association. The hardcopy LITA Newsletter is sent free of charge to members of the Library and Information Technology Association. Nonmembers may subscribe for US$25 per year in US, US$30 in Canada and Mexico, and US$40 in other foreign countries. See print LITA Newsletter for details. The online edition is available free from the LITANEWS mailing list. Besides library administration issues, LITA frequently has articles regarding online archival, networking, electronic mail systems, GIS, AI, the "information superhighway" and other topics relevant to online activism.

Editor: Gail Junion-Metz <gail@iage.com>

Subscribe (online): listserv@dartmouth.edu or listserv@dartcms1.bitnet,

• Loka-L

An occasional series of electronic postings on democratic politics of science and technology, issued by the Loka Institute.

• Minnesota Politics & Public Policy E-Mail Forum (MN-POLITICS)

MN-POLITICS is an unmoderated Internet electronic-mail list for the sharing of information on and discussion of Minnesota politics and public policy. Members of this forum are encouraged to contribute campaign and election information, announcements from Minnesota-focused political and civic organizations, public policy and legislative information, and presentations on issues of public interest. MN-POLITICS is associated with the Minnesota E-Democracy Project.

Subscribe requests: majordomo@mr.net, message body: subscribe mn-politics

Admin: Mick Souder <masouder@alex.stkate.edu>

• net-happenings@is.internic.net (general "interesting stuff" list)

Usenet: comp.internet.net-happenings

• Net-Letter Guide

A periodical & frequently updated list of "newsy periodicals available through the Internet." By John Higgins.

Subscribe: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org, subject: SUBSCRIBE NET-LETTER

FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/e-zines.list

Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Net_info/Resources, e-zines.list

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/e-zines.list

• The Network Observer (TNO)

A free, monthly online newsletter about networks and democracy. Available via the RRE mailing list, backissues archived on the RRE files-by-email server (see separate Red Rock Eater [RRE] entry), and editor Phil Agre’s WWW site.

Subscribe (RRE): rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, message body: "subscribe

FTPmail: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, subject line: "archive help"

WWW: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/tno.html

• NETWORKS and COMMUNITY

A weekly newsletter of information relevant to community networking issues, as well as interesting and useful pointers to Internet resources. Subscribe/Info: cvington@netcom.com (request to be added to N&C list)

FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/Net_Com/

Gopher: gopher.well.com, 1/Community/communets/net.com

WWW: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/Community/communets/net.com/

• nii_agenda@civicnet.org
• niiregional-l@rain.org
• NSF Network News

NSF Network News (ISSN 1072-5172 hardcopy, 1072-6101 online) is published bimonthly in electronic and hard copy formats by InterNIC. The goal of this publication is to educate Internet users about network issues, resources, and tools; announce new and innovative uses of the Internet; and inform the Internet community of the activities of the InterNIC. Electronic subscriptions: free. Domestic hardcopy subscriptions:

free. International hardcopy subscriptions: US$30/year for postage and handling. Three versions of the electronic subscription are available: newsletter-dist is the mailing list for the ASCII text version of the newsletter; newsletter-html is the list for the HTML version (open document locally with your WWW browser); newsletter-announce is the list for brief announcements that describe the contents of current issue and how to get it.

Admin: Paul W. Wilson (Editor) <wilsonp@is.internic.net>

Subscribe: majordomo@internic.net, message body: "subscribe <mailing list

• Online-news

Online-news is an Internet mailing list on the topic of online newspapers and magazines. It serves as a forum to discuss the evolution of newspaper and magazine experiments in electronic publishing. It also is the place in cyberspace where professionals working to design electronic publications of the future meet to get to know each other and exchange ideas. Online-news is NOT a general journalism discussion list. Its subject matter is limited to electronic publications.

Admin: Steve Outing <owner-online-news@marketplace.com>

Subscribe: majordomo@marketplace.com, message body: "subscribe online-news"

Voice (admin): +1 510 236 2118

• OTANews

Online newsletters & announcements of the White House’s Office of Technology Assessment (topics range from osteoporosis to NII, but is often relevant to online advocacy issues.)

Admin: llong@pubs.ota.gov

Subscribe: listserv@ota.gov, message body: "subscribe otanews

• pem-dev@tis.com (Privacy Enchanced Mailer developers)
• PRIVACY Forum Digest (PFD) [a.k.a. Computer PRIVACY Forum]

Like RISKS, a rather selectively moderated digest. "It spans the full range of both technological and non-technological privacy-related issues (with an emphasis on the former)." Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Info: privacy-request@vortex.com, message body: "information privacy"

Subscribe: privacy-request@vortex.com, message body: "subscribe privacy

• Public-Access Computer Systems Forum (PACS-L), Review (PACS-R), News

General (PACS-L): pacs-l@uhupvm1.uh.edu

General (PACS-R): Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <lib3@uhupvm1.uh.edu>

General (PACS-N): Dana Rooks <libl@uhupvm1.uh.edu>

Subscribe (PACS-L): listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu (message body: "SUBSCRIBE PACS-L

List database search (email): same address (message body "INFO DATABASE") List database search (telnet): a.cni.org, login: brsuser FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/PACS/ FTPmail: listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu (message body: "INDEX PACS-L F=MAIL")

WWW: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/11/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary

• PUBPOL-L%UMINN1.bitnet@VM42.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Public Policy Graduate Studies

Net)

• Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE)

List for informational forwards & other resource materials, many of which are of interest to online activists). Also serves as the distribution list for The Network Observer (see separate entry.)

Admin: rre-maintainters@weber.ucsd.edu

Subscribe: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, message body: "subscribe

FTPmail: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, subject line: "archive help"

WWW: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html

• RISKS Forum Digest (RFD)

Risks is an online newsletter of sorts, the "forum on risks to the public in computers and related systems" of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. Risks is a wealth of information and banter about various issues surrounding computers, communications and networking, and is moderated by Peter G. Neumann. Subscribe requests: risks-request@csl.sri.com (subscribe risks [name])

Fax: +1 818 225 7203 [issues are avail. via fax]

• ROUNDTABLE

This forum is the Internet discussion group of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR). The TPR is a coalition of more than 100 organizations which was organized in the spring of 1993 to discuss federal telecommunications and information policy. ROUNDTABLE is an open list which is devoted to the dissemination of information about TPR activities, as well as discussions about federal telecommunications and information policy. (Subscribers to ROUNDTABLE need not be members of the TPR.) The list was created to facilitate discussions among current TPR members, and to extend discussions of policy to those who cannot participate in roundtable meetings because of geographic barriers. Among the topics which will be examined on this list is a discussion of model telecommunications legislation. TPR members are also encouraged to post press releases and other notices which are relevant to the TPR.

Admin: Jamie Love <love@essential.org>

Technical Admin: Craig Summerhill <craig@cni.org>

Subscribe: listproc@cni.org, message body: "SUBSCRIBE ROUNDTABLE <firstname>

• Scout Report

The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information Services’ "Info Scout", to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what’s new on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC’s primary audience, researchers and educators, however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated fees. Over 10,000 subscribers.

Subscribe: majordomo@is.internic.net, message body: "subscribe scout-report"

FTPmail: mailserv@is.internic.net, message body: "send /scout-report/[date]"

• sea-list@panix.com, sea-legal@panix.com, etc. (Soc. for Electronic Access)
• tap-info@essential.org (Taxpayer Assets Project bulletins)
• Telecommunications Public Interest Newsletter (TPIN)

TPIN is an action resource published by the Office of Communication, United Church of Christ. TPIN tracks developments on the national information infrastructure, public access, equal opportunity in broadcasting, children’s television, privacy and other issues affecting the public interest.

Subscribe: ask Andrew G. Lang <langa@ucc.org>

• The Network Observer (TNO)

[see under "N", rather than "T"]

• thesegroups

This list is for organizers of local and other electronic activist groups and activities. The focus is on public policy, civil liberties, and community related to computing, telecommunications, and computer networks. This list is not public, and not all subscription requests are accepted. For a discussion list about electronic communities, try COMMUNET. If you do ask to subscribe to thesegroups, please say where you heard of it, or who sent you.

Subscription requests: thesegroups-request@tic.com

• The Unofficial Internet Book List

A list of books about Internet/Usenet, issued as a periodical, and regularly updated. By Kevin Savetz.

Subscribe: savetz@rahul.net, subject line: "subscribe booklist" FTPmail: savetz@rahul.net, subject: "send booklist" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Resources/net_book.list Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/pub/Net_info/Resources, net_book.list WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Resources/net_book.list Usenet: news.answers (regularly posted)

• usnonprofit-l@rain.org
• utah-libs@xmission.com (Utah civil liberities and LIbertarian list)

(subscribe: majordomo@xmission.com, "subscribe utah-libs")

• vtw-list@panix.com (lobbying efforts for privacy, networking, NII issues)

• alt.2600
• alt.activism

Moderated discussion & announcements about activism

• alt.activism.d

Unmoderated discussion on activism. High traffic.

• alt.bbs.allsysop
• alt.best.of.internet
• alt.censorship

Unmoderated discussion on censorship and freedom of expression. High traffic.

• alt.comp.acad-freedom.news (= digested version of CAF list)
• alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk (= misc. version of CAF list avail. from eff.org)
• alt.conspiracy >;)
• alt.culture.internet
• alt.cyberpunk
• alt.cyberpunk.movement
• alt.cyberspace
• alt.dear.whitehouse
• alt.freedom.of.information.act
• alt.internet.services
• alt.life.internet
• alt.motherjones
• alt.politics.clinton
• alt.politics.datahighway

Unmoderated discussion on information infrastructure issues, regulation and politics. High traffic. Newsgroup created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• alt.politics.ec
• alt.politics.economics
• alt.politics.elections
• alt.politics.europe.misc
• alt.politics.libertarian
• alt.politics.media
• alt.politics.org.misc
• alt.politics.org.nsa
• alt.politics.reform
• alt.politics.usa.constitution
• alt.politics.usa.misc

• alt.president.clinton
• alt.privacy

Unmoderated discussion on privacy. High traffic.

• alt.privacy.anon-server

Unmoderated discussion on anonymous remailers and online anonymity/ pseudonymy.

• alt.privacy.clipper

Unmoderated discussion on Clipper/Skipjack/Tessera/Capstone, cryptographic key "escrow", and govt. encryption policy. High traffic.

• alt.security
• alt.security.pgp

Unmoderated discussion of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the de facto Internet email encryption standard. High traffic.

• alt.society.civil-liberties
• alt.society.civil-liberty
• alt.society.resistance
• alt.wired
• aus.legal
• aus.legal (= AUST_LEGAL Fido echo)
• aus.org.efa (EF-Australia, = efa@iinet.com.au list/EFA Fido echo)
• aus.politics
• austin.politics
• ba.internet
• ba.politics
• ba.smartvalley
• bit.listserv.politics (= politics@villvm.bitnet list)
• ca.govt-bulletins
• can.infobahn
• can.infohighway
• can.politics
• clari.news.politics
• clari.news.politics.people
• comp.bbs.misc
• comp.dcom.telecom
• comp.internet.net-happenings = net-happenings@is.internic.net list
• comp.org.cpsr.announce

Moderated newsgroup for CPSR/EPIC releases. Also available as mailing list. (see issues of EPIC Alert for subscribe info).

• comp.org.cpsr.talk

Unmoderated discussion of issues related to the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Topics include privacy, the NII, telecommunications reform and social implications of technology.

• comp.org.eff.news

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s distribution for EFF newsletters and press releases and other items of note. This is a moderated newsgroup/list that does not allow posts from readers (such postings are redirected to comp.org.eff.talk). EFF-News is a low-traffic group/list, and features each issue of EFFector Online newsletter, as well as announcements, summaries of hearings and conferences, testimony transcripts, etc.

Gopher: gopher.eff.org

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/

http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ [For topic-sorted archives of news items, see Policy subdirectories; for newsletter backissues, see EFFector directory.]

• comp.org.eff.talk

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s general discussion forum - focuses on EFF policy, cyberspace legal issues, the "data superhighway", networking and activism, and computing futures and potential. comp.org eff.talk is also available as a mailing list, and, in some areas, a FidoNet echomail conference. EFF is a 501©(3) US non-profit organization devoted to civil liberties in computing and communications. As with comp.org.eff.news, this newsgroup/list is not archived in full, but important documents are placed in EFF’s online library in the Policy (a.k.a. Issues) directory. See below for full paths and URLs.

Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-talk" Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk FidoNet: Zone 1 - INET.EFF.TALK (not backboned; feed nodes unknown)

• comp.org.fidonet
• comp.risks (RISKS Forum Digest)

(See RISKS Forum Digest in mailing lists section for more info.)

• comp.security.unix
• comp.society
• comp.society.cu-digest (CuD)

(See Computer underground Digest in mailing lists section for more info.)

• comp.society.futures
• comp.society.privacy (PRIVACY Forum Digest)
• misc.activism.progressive (ACTIV-L)
• misc.consumers
• misc.headlines
• misc.legal
• misc.legal.moderated
• ne.politics
• rec.video.desktop
• sci.crypt

Unmoderated technical discussion of encryption (cryptology and cryptography), codebreaking, and related topics. High traffic, but high content. Warning: this newsgroup should be used as an information source; the participants are NOT amenable to postings of political material, non-technical discussion, and the like.

• sci.med.telemedicine
• soc.politics
• soc.rights.human
• talk.politics.crypto

Unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of govt. encryption policy and related topics. High traffic.

• talk.politics.libertarian
• talk.politics.medicine
• talk.politics.misc
• uk.org.community

Unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of CommUnity, an EFF-like org. in Britain, and the issues the organization works on, incl. civil liberties and activism.

• uk.politics

• AUST_LEGAL (FidoNet zone 3; = aus.legal newsgroup)
• EFA (FidoNet zone 3; EF-Australia, = efa@iinet.com.au/aus.org.efa)
• R_U_NEXT (FidoNet zone 3)
• INET.EFF.TALK (FidoNet zone 1; non-backbone gate of comp.org.eff.talk)

• Women’s WIRE

Online service focusing on women and women’s issues. Hosts online resources of more than 15 women’s-interest and other nonprofit groups, through the Organization Access feature, which offers direct access to nonprofit organizations and professional associations. Among the first groups to contribute to this electronic clearinghouse are The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Alumnae Resources, Women’s Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, several chapters of the National Organization for Women, Students Organizing Students, National Education Center for Women in Business, and the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project. By entering the organizations’ virtual doors, users gain access to up-to-date action aslerts, calendar, newsletters, resources and expert advice on health, politics, careers and more. WWIRE is a subscriber-only service. Listing here is not an endorsement or recommendation of the service, just a notice that activist-oriented resources may be located here.

General: info@wwire.net

Subscription: subscribe@wwire.net (mail here to get SprintNet

• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications

A new scholarly publication, JCMC is a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and the Information Systems Division of the School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Editors are Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli. The journal seeks to publish original essays and research reports on such topics as interpersonal and group processes in communication networks, issues of privacy, economics and access raised by the developing information infrastructure, instructional communication in distance learning, computer-supported cooperative work, and organizational and social policy issues occasioned by the new medium.

WWW: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/announce.html

• Computer underground Digest E-Zine Archives

Large collection of electronic publications on the computer underground, including hacking, security, and civil liberties online publications.

FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/CuD/

Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/CuD/

WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/

• Computers & Academic Freedom File Archives

• Computers & Academic Freecom Civil Liberties Index

A live index to "newsy" civil-liberties-related Net material

http://www.eff.org/CAF/cl-index.html

• Electronic Frontier Foundation E-Pub Archives

Large collection of electronic publications on networking, telecommuniations regulation, online legal issues, privacy & security, civil liberties, and more. Includes books and articles as well as serial publications.

• MFJ Task Force Archives

A joint telco lobbying group’s archive of telecom regulatory material. Though an industry rather than public interest endeavour, the archive provides much timely, important, and hard to find legislative material, including hearing transcripts and testimony.

• Outpost - EFF Online +1 202 638 6120 (8N1, 300-14400bps V.32bis V.42bis)

• InterNIC Directory and Database Services Mail Server

This server provides access to information and services available from the InterNIC’s Directory and Database Services. The server is used principally for access to the file archives, but other (free) services available from Directory and Database services include the Directory and Database Services X.500 server, which provides information on an institution or person; Internet document databases; the Directory and Database Services whois server, and much more. This valuable information is only an email message away.

General: admin@ds.internic.net

Server: mailserv@ds.internic.net, message body: "HELP"

• Patent Titles Email Server

A project of Greg Aharonian’s Internet Patent News Service, the PTES is similar to an FTPmail system, "where people can retrieve lists of patent titles dating back to 1970 for any USPTO class/subclass, and patent numbers for additional patents dating back to the 1800’s. The Patent Titles email server is the first step in our efforts to make the entire USPTO APS patent text database system accessible over the Internet. Approximately one gigabyte of data has been prepared and attached to the Internet.

General: srctran@world.std.com

Server: search@world.std.com, message body: "SENDTO <account@internet.site>"

• Red Rock Eater Archives (RRE)

RRE mailing list’s supplemental file archive, mostly material related to the social and political aspects of computing and networking. Archive site for TNO back issues (see The Network Observer, separate entry; cf. Red Rock Eater News Service entry.) Also available via WWW.

Admin: rre-maintainters@weber.ucsd.edu

FTPMail Server: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, subject line: "archive help"

WWW: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html

• 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly

Inside technical information on telephone and computer network operations. Published quarterly. [For 2600 discussion forum info, see mailing list and Usenet sections of this document.]

• Applied Cryptography

Book; technical introduction to encryption. Read _The_Codebreakers_ first. Note: The diskettes intended to accompany this book are the subject of quite a bit of (unwanted) US government attention. See ftp.eff.org, /pub/Legal/Cases/Karn_Schneier_export. Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons Press, New York, 1994.

• The Big Chill: Censorship and the Law

Book; Edward De Grazia, Aperture Press, 1990. Available from Loompanics (see Loompanics entry in this section).

• The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing

Book; excellent and accessible history of cryptography for the non-mathematician; David Kahn, Macmillan Press, New York, 1967 [Somewhat outdated - does not cover the public key crypto revolution, nor the US government’s attempts to subvert the crypto market. See also the _Applied_Cryptography_ entry in this section.]

• Educational Technology Research and Development

Quarterly published by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Washington DC. [No other info available at present.]

• Electronic Public Information Newsletter (EPIN)

[See under mailing lists section]

• Full Disclosure

A monthly newspaper on surveillance and civil liberties issues.

Editor: Glen Roberts.

Cost: US$29.95/year.

Voice: +1 708 395 6200

• International Privacy Bulletin

Published quarterly by Privacy International & EPIC. The IPB covers international trends and new technologies. Each issue also includes reports from different countries and reviews of new publications.

• Journal of Broadcasting

Broadcast Education Association’s quarterly; no other info available.

• Journal of Communication

Anneberg School Press quarterly, Philadelphia PA. No other info available.

• Journal of Hypermedia and Multimedia Studies: HyperNEXUS

International Society for Technology in Education quarterly; Eugene, OR No other info available.

• Journal of Media Literacy: Telemedium

National Telemedia Council quarterly; Madison, WI. No other info available.

• Loompanics Catalog

Large catalog of unusual books, including many on privacy, censorship and activism (mostly of the civil disobedience variety, but some more thoughtful items are also available.)

• Media and Values

National Sisters Communication Service quarterly; Los Angeles, Calif. No other info available.

• Media, Culture and Society

Journal of the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Central, London, UK.

No other info available.

• Media Education Journal

Biannual of the Scottish Curriculum Development Centre, Moray House College of Education; Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. No other info available.

• Media Information Australia

Australian Film & TV School quarterly; North Ryde, Australia. No other info available.

• Media Studies Journal

Freedom Forum Media Studies Center quarterly; New York City, NY. No other info available.

• Mediaweek

A/S/M Communications weekly; Brewster, New York. No other info available.

• Lean & Mean: Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility

Book; Bennett Harrison, Basic Books, New York, 1994. "A terrific guide to the meaning of ‘flexibility’ in the global economy. Computer networks and other means of global coordination are not weakening the largest firms. Quite the contrary...Harrison has a definite thesis and point of view, but he is also admirably clear about the difficulties of deriving reliable conclusions from the available data, and he discusses several competing theories in generous detail." [Review excerpted from _The_Network_Observer_ #1.12]

• LITA Newsletter

[See LITA Newsletter under mailing lists section]

• Low Profile

Voice: +1 702 333 5942

• NSF Network News

[See NSF Network News, under mailing lists section]

• Politics on the Net: Surfing the World of Internet Politics

Book; Bill Mann; A very comprehensive overview of US politics and and political resources online. Though not geared toward any particular kind of activism, anyone more active than a couch potato will find this to be of use. Pros: Covers the Libertarian and other parties as well as "the Big Two"; topical arrangement, clearly written by someone who actually knows what he’s doing and talking about, detailed reviews of resources, besides pointers; introductory info for the beginning online grassroots activist; good indexing. Cons: appendices with govt. and NGO server lists would have been nice (but are, after all, available elsewhere already); focuses primarily on the US; has a slight bias against right-wing politics (for many readers this will of course be a big plus, but neutrality can be a virtue); and, like any work of this sort, it will age quickly - one hopes it will be reissued with updates every year or so. All in all, no serious flaws, and highly recommendable. 382 pages of pretty solid info. Que/Macmillan, Indianapolis, 1995;

ISBN: 0-7897-0286-x.

Cost: US$24.99 (less from discount booksellers)

Email: 72410.2077@compuserve.com (Que), wpmann@ix.netcom.com (author)

• Privacy Laws and Business

A quarterly comprehensive overview of privacy issues in Europe. Focuses mainly on regulatory and data protection from a business perspective. Editor: Stewart Dresner.

Voice: +44 81 866 8641

• Privacy Times

Biweekly newsletter on information law. Each issue covers developments related to privacy and information access, including summaries of court decisions on the Freedom of Information Act and other relevant statutes. Editor: Evan Hendricks.

Voice: +1 202 829 3660

• Transnational Data and Communications Report

Bimonthly international overview of privacy, data protection, telecommunications and information access.

• New York State Legislative Services (bill texts, etc.)

Voice: 1 800 342 9860