On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote:
Almost since the inception of the Internet, Usenet and IRC have been uncensorable distributed resources defined only by adherence to published protocols.
With no centralized administration, and resilience against the loss of individual servers, they carry enough traffic to provide complete and total plausible deniability for any server operator over content which gores some specific group's ox.
Unknown to much of the Internet, there is a plan brewing to "upgrade" Efnet, the primary IRC network, to something called "Efnext." Server software is being rewritten and tested. Efnet server admins have been contacted and promises to move to the new network during a "transition period" exacted. People who won't play ball have been identified, and plans to delink them and not connect them to the new regime fabricated.
You can learn more about Efnext at http://www.efnext.net/
"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
We are Efnext.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling, .... So much for belief in free markets. You realise that there is nothing that requires servers to install this, or cease using the old network? It seems to me the 'cypherpunkish', 'libertarian', 'anarchic' thing to do is to promote the growth of individualy operated servers other than those on ISP's (who will have a motive to drop the old system and use the new system - just another example of why libertarian/economism is not sufficient in and of itself for a basis for society - they have no motive to protect the individual, only the 'market'). ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------