Anonymity and corporate services
There is a setting on mailman lists that allows for anonymity between users – users hiding from each other the fact that it was them sending that email, and, if the list is publicly archived, they hide that from potential readers too.
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Hotmail blocking aktivix again
Generally, we should not use hotmail if we value our privacy: link to The Guardian
Years ago I collected some links to info that explained why each of the corporate providers then known were ‘not good’. *
The ones related to hotmail were:
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Der Aktivix-Sozial-Vertrag The Aktivix Social Contract in German
Aktivix.org existiert, weil wir meinen, dass es für Widerstands-Gruppierungen unerlässlich ist in der Lage zu sein, ihre eigenen Kommunikations-Bedürfnisse selbst zu befriedigen. Wir dürfen nicht gezwungen sein, auf unsichere, profitgetriebene Kommunikationsmittel angewiesen zu sein, die uns mit Verstand betäubender Werbung bombardiert.
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spam in aktivix
You may have noticed an increase in spam in the last few weeks. Lately, they make it sound like they know you, as they salute you with the first part of your aktivix address which may be your name. “Hi
It may be tempting to reply back with a “No I didn’t request this”.
DON’T
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AktiviX welcome email in Spanish
As well as a steady influx of requests for email addresses, lists etc., aktivix is now expanding geographically/linguistically: now in Spanish
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Uses of a domain and ways to go
When you are planning your website, one of the things to decide is its name, or url. To make a decision, you may need to decide what kind of website it is, what will be the use of it, and you will want to register a different kind of domain for different types of uses or cases. Continue reading
Possible places to register a domain
With network23.org you can have your own blog. Automatically the url will be network23.org/yourblog , but you can also have your own domain, like www.fareshares.org.uk have.
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who / what is aktivix
I can’t believe this page is still up after all this years.
Click then keep refreshing for one definition at a time:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jmr59/aktivix/aktivix_what.pl
(and yes the wiki link is dead)
aktivix email service and the web interfaces
There were two web interfaces you could use to check your aktivix emails: horde and roundcube. Due to circumstances beyond aktivix’s control, we can no longer support roundcube.
As for horde – webmail is really only a backup for those occasions when you are not sitting in front of your own computer. Of course if you do not own a computer you do need to use the web alternative, but if you have access to the same computer/s regularly, you are encouraged to have a copy of thunderbird for you especially if you want to easily use encryption and other nice bits, like .. read on. Continue reading