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Information about Electronic Frontiers Australia
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Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) will be founded in February 1994 to
develop, promote and defend the civil liberties of online network users
as new communications technologies emerge.
About 30 people have been discussing this proposal via email on the
Internet and Fidonet since mid December 1993. Items currently under
discussion include:
Structure: National and/or State based
Purpose
Incorporation
Activities
Fund raising
Activities
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Some of the activities that EFA may engage in are:
Production of a regular newsletter, primarily distributed
electronically.
Participating in, and/or organising conferences.
Activities which will promote the value of online networks to the
general public.
Research into, and dissemination of, up-to-date information on online
civil liberties issues.
Preparation of, and promotion of, position papers on relevant issues.
How to join in
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To join the discussion on the formation of EFA join the efa mailing list
by sending email to efa-request@iinet.com.au with the word "subscribe"
as the body of the message. To post messages to the list send them to
efa@iinet.com.au.
This list is currently gated to the apana newsgroup apana.lists.misc.efa
which is available to members of the Australian Public Access Network
Association. The list will soon be gated to a Fidonet echo, and plans
are underway to gate it to a Usenet newsgroup.
Archives of the messages posted to the list/echo/newsgroup will soon be
available via annonymous FTP from ftp.eff.org, pub/Groups/EF-Australia
as efa-01-94.tar.gz (where 01 is the first week of 1994 etc) and
efa-01-94.index (a text file index). The same archives will also be
available as EFA0194.ZIP and EFA0194.TXT etc from TWIN BBS.
If you wish to join EFA when it is founded, send email to Brenda Aynsley,
3:620/243 on fidonet or Brenda.Aynsley@aarnet.edu.au on internet.
Information on EFA
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To obtain the latest version of this information send email to
efa-info@iinet.com.au. It is also available via annonymous FTP from
ftp.eff.org, pub/Groups/EF-Australia/about.efa It will also be
available from That Which Is Not BBS, 3:800/842 by file request (magic
name EFA), or call (08) 373 5489 and login as E.F Australia.