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Announcing the hackbloc.org mailing lists!

Written by The Hackbloc COllective Saturday, 14 June 2008

Is Hackbloc Dead?

NO. As some of you may have noticed IRC is dead. As some more of you may have noticed, the forums are no longer operating. Some have decried this as the death of HackBloc. Some have praised this as a welcome relief from all the cruft that showed up in IRC. The hackbloc.org collective feels that getting rid of the IRC channel was a necessary step to clarifying our message, to making sure that our message and mission didn't get muddled or obfusticated by the ramblings, immaturity and outright ignorance that often accompany Internet Relay Chat. The forums were just an unfortunate accident.

So what now?

Since the time that the forums and IRC have dissapeared the organizing members of the International HackBloc collective have been debating on the best ways to communicate with each other, with other members of the collective and with new people just finding out about the hackbloc.org collective. It was decided that mailing lists provided the best solution to this for the following reasons: mailing lists in general lend themselves to a higher level of discourse than IRC does, this is most likely due to the fact that it is psychologically easier to type a really stupid one line sentence and hit enter than to send a really stupid email. Also, archives are kept of mailing lists, so if you say something profoundly ignorant it will haunt you forever ;) additionally mailing lists take a bit more work to join, which will probably decrease the prevelance of such posts as 'pls h4x0r my hotmail' et. al.

So, is hackbloc dead?

No. Its not. Thanks for asking. The core organizers simply chose to stop being so public and have the message of the collective be so muddled, deal with it. Also, hackbloc doesn't die unless you let it. The spirit of hackbloc is about hacktivism and if you stopped being a revolutionary just because there were no forums or IRC to chat about it on maybe you need to reconsider what a revolutionary is, and what hackbloc is.

Tell me more about the lists?

Initially we have started 3 lists:

Hackbloc-discuss:
This is the Hackbloc Collective Open Discussion list. It is used
to talk about the hackbloc collective,
hacking, activism, philosophy and general geekery.
This list is unmoderated and high traffic.
The views on this list are not necessarily representative of
the hackbloc collective as a whole.

HackThisZine:
This is for zine business, i.e. : submitting articles, sending
feedback, sending artwork, asking to help with the zine, asking
questions about the zine, etc.

Hackbloc-announce:
This is the list to receive official hackbloc.org
announcements. This list is moderated and low traffic,
it will be used to announce: zine releases, important news about
the collective, new projects, etc.

There may be more lists to come, and of course you can always find them on http://lists.hackbloc.org

How can I join the aforementioned lists and begin expanding my brain?

Why, you can view all the lists and sign up for them at http://lists.hackbloc.org of course! We hope that these lists will better serve the hackbloc collective and hacktivists overall in providing a forum to research and discuss our craft as well as our philosophies and to get help and support from one another.

-- The Hackbloc Collective
Exploit Code Not People