[p2p-research] alternative email infrastructure

[j.martin.pedersen]

On 15/12/10 14:07, Samuel Rose wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/05/the-big-limits-of-todays-email-privacy-barriers-and-robustness/
>>
>> hi marco,
>>
>> could you write something like this for us to, eventually even the same
>> text, but perhaps with at least one practical suggestion added at the end?
>>
>> Michel
> 
> 
> 
> It seems to me that a good long-term option for people that cannot do
> their own system administration would be to create a cooperative-run
> datacenter (or datacenters). This would likely still leave you
> possibly leasing space, T1 or fractional T connection (so
> theoretically still in the space of trusting corporate infrastructure
> providers) and perhaps other services (energy) . However, this would
> at least be different than using free services provided by
> corporations in that you probably *could* sue them in some cases for
> certain failures (although, you may be signing off on agreeing not to
> do certain activities, you'd have to read the agreements carefully).
> 
> There have been some folks that have done this in Chicago, and
> recently some friends in Cleveland, OH created a worker-owned
> technology cooperative.

See also:

www.riseup.net

www.aktivix.org

--- and many others more or less similar, many of whom can be tracked
indirect lines back to the Indymedia project in Seattle '99.