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Currently, our primary means of communication is what is called a
mailing-list, or a "listserv". Basically what this is, is one big
email address-book you can send email to, and the email gets sent
to everyone in the address-book. The address-book is represented by
a single email address that you send the email to as you would a
normal email message to a friend. The only difference between a
mailing-list and an address-book is that, whereas in an email
address-book you manage the email addresses, the addresses in a
mailing-list are managed by the mailing-list administrator.
We use two separate mailing-lists. One is for announcements, and
the other is for discussion. The announcements list is a
low-traffic moderated list (meaning messages have to be approved
before being sent out) for activity announcements and action
alerts only. To subscribe to the announcements list go to http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/cdjp_action. The
discussion list is for discussion, information dissemination, and
communication between organizers and activists. To subscribe to
the discussion list go to http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/cdjp_discussion. The
email address for posting messages to the discussion list is
cdjp_discussion@lists.riseup.net (remember to subscribe
first).
If you have any problems with either list contact the list
administrator, Connie LaPorta. You can find her contact
information here.
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Often we have to exchange files that are too big to post to the
mailing-list. You should never send an email out to a
mailing-list that includes/attaches a file bigger than 100K. Most
people have quotas for the email accounts they use to receive
mail from the mailing-list. This mailing-list generates quite a
bit of traffic sometimes, and if everyone were to send out large
files to it, a lot of people who are on the mailing-list would
have their email account quota exceeded and would be unable to
receive potentially important email.
To deal with this problem we use a separate site to exchange
large files. The web-site is http://hm.indymedia.org. This
a well-run regional web-site where anybody can post news, stories,
articles, photos, video clips, sound clips, documents/fliers, and
any other types of files. To post a file there, you have to
register/create a login account, and then post a story and attach
the file to the story. There are instructions for posting
files/stories at http://hm.indymedia.org/publish.php3
This is a comprehensive listing of announcements for local
progressive events from peace vigils, to lectures, to calls for
civil disobedience. To subscribe to the email version go to http://www.topica.com/lists/NYCR-Prog-Cal
(it is sent out once a week). The online version is at http://www.social-capital.org/calendar/.
This web-site is not only a way to exchange files (as mentioned
above), but also serves as an important
news-source on events happening in the Capital Region. Often
these events get little or no coverage in the Times-Union and
would get no coverage at all if it weren't for this site.
A valuable source of news on the global/national level. Currently
their program is broadcast daily on WRPI (91.5) between 9:00AM
and 10:00AM. You can also listen to the streaming audio version
of the broadcast available on their website at http://pacifica.org.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) radio station is a
valuable and diverse source of news and other radio
programming. They have some pretty good music programs too.
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