This is a quick answer to a quick question. It just got useful enough to publish here.
Short answer:
pop3 if you have an intermitent internet connection, for example on the phone line as it was common years ago, where you would connect as if it was a phonecall so you would just fetch your emails quickly and then read them offline to free the line up for phonecalls.
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http://aktivix.org
Aktivix and its networks are committed to not holding any information that is not necessary to run its services, and even the minimum information that is held, will be held from corporate and state authorities as much as possible.
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(and not one with some .com site based on adverts, or with your geek neighbour)
https://network23.org/ was down for about a day and a half, a few days ago. There were problems with blogs hosted with n23 but with their own domain, Continue reading
These are extracts from a list discussion between “tech” and “non-tech” people. I found them useful for a wider public, for even wider discussion, even for reference for the future. That is another way blogs can be used for.
Excuse the plagiarism.
“[…] The only way, in my honest opinion, for righteous techs to help activists be more tech savy is to […] seeing how the world looks from a non techy activist mindset.. and then to take the […] steps required to cater to the needs of people who do not feel or think the same way as techs do […],
HactionLab has run apparently for a few years, with two events, one in the summer in a farm, and one in the winter in a city. This year’s summer event, BarnCamp, is going to be over three full days: Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th, at Highbury Farm again and it’s live on the web at
http://hacktivista.net/barncamp
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Are you having problems between your cool email service provider and corporate email providers?
For the purpose of this explanation, a “cool email provider” is a provider listed as signatories of the statement on Data Retention on this page:
https://lists.aktivix.org
or here:
https://help.riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers
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What a masterclass on what not to do:
Firefox and IE give you that warning because they do not want to interact with indymedia’s certificate. Both browsers (most if not all) are part of the corporate world and only interact well with certificates created within the corporate world. Indymedia and friends keep out of the corporate world as much as possible. That is why they work with certificates that do not come from that world.
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If we would not accept to receive our bank statements on a postcard and we always seal our love letters, why do keep sending non-encrypted emails? Probably, because encrypting an email is not as simple as sealing an envelope. While it only takes a simple gesture to close an envelope, email encryption requires, namely: a pair of keys, a passphrase to activate them and a program to handle it all. One of the most popular ways to use encryption is probably with Thunderbird and its PGP plug-in. Once both are installed, it is all pretty intuitive.
But what do you do if you don’t even have a computer, and/or you have to use computers that are not yours, to connect to the internet? Continue reading