[Note: you haven't been subscribed to nexus-berkeley@c2.org without your permission.. you're on a list that this message has been Bcc`d to, if you are not subbed to nexus-berkeley@c2.org] -- Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley is now on-line -- -- Please distribute widely. After many months of planning, thinking, frustration, and hard work, Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley is now on-line and ready to begin its work. We've been thinking and dreaming about this for the past two years. Finally we've made it into a reality. Community ConneXion (c2, c^2, or c-squared) has been founded in order to build up a strong community in the internet both locally and globally. We are linked into the worldwide NEXUS-Gaia movement which is building up a worldwide community of like-minded network-oriented individuals. We've realized that the internet is not about the protocols nor the universities nor the corporations nor the politics which form the basic infrastructure. All these things are merely the facilitators, the parts which come together to produce the whole; the internet is about people communicating and making connections with each other-- forming the social infrastructure. We've appeared in order to facilitate these connections. We've setup shop here in the SF Bay Area and we will integrate virtuality and reality. It is possible for virtual communities to merge into, supplement, and sometimes even create "real" flesh communities. In order to build up this community we've put some computers on the internet and have started offering services. These are quality services provided at a low cost, with an emphasis on community involvement. We emphasize privacy because there can be no strong community where people fear their neighbors. By allowing people to selective reveal themselves, we make easier for them to break down the walls of prejudice which come between people in social interactions. We're offering mailboxes, shell accounts, anonymous remailing services, ftp space, domain names, mail exchanging, strong psuedonymous identities, and more as time goes on. We're building up a barter-coupon system so that volunteers who help our community can earn credits to use to buy more services from our system or, as the NEXUS-Gaia project grows, from Nexi around the world. The barter-coupon system is implemented using a secure and private anonymous digital cash scheme. We're asking for help from people to build our community. It can't be done with only a few people. Everyone involved can help out to build the system. A community is a group effort. As we build the community we improve our lives. For more information and to sign up, use your favorite World-Wide-Web browser to look at http://www.c2.org or, if you don't have access to a WWW browser, telnet to c2.org and login as "guest". Most services are offered with an initial two week free trial period. In order to subscribe to our mailing list, send the message "subscribe nexus-berkeley" to majordomo@c2.org. (From a UNIX prompt: "echo subscribe nexus-berkeley | mail majordomo@c2.org") If you have any questions, send mail to info@c2.org. -sameer Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley Voice: 510-841-2014 (not yet active) Pager: 510-321-1014 Email: info@c2.org