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INPUT DESIRED!

Just over a month ago, Jim & John posted a thread seeking ideas on how to keep FR going if Gov’t. closing down sites or groups of internet sectors.

The easy answer is to just throw in the towel - but that’s not in my genes.....

While they may pull an Egypt, I doubt that they would shut down ALL the avenues of communication. They would probably hit the Facebooks, Twitters and many of the social media (as they call it), I do not think they would close down the tunnels for VPNs and probably not the email, but SMS would probably get cut.

If email remained, what would everyone think of setting up a LISTSERV email list (for those who don’t remember them, it works by forwarding an email you send to it to all on the list. Even if some individuals are cut off, it would just bypass them and continue sending to all other participants. This could be redundant - more than one person could have the software, and if one server is knocked out, another could fire up in minutes.

I know, you don’t want 20 emails every day - well, there are usually options for once daily or once weekly summaries, AND if you use a resident email program like Outlook Express or Thunderbird (or others) instead of leaving your mail on hotmail or gmail as a web mail, you can set up a rule and have it all put into a dedicated directory (as I have done with the high tunnels group - now over 4,000 emails I can reference on setting up, using, high tunnels and all the experiences people have had in growing different crops in them) That way, they are out of your way unless you want to review them.

Anyway, thoughts, criticisms, other suggestions?????

Don’t forget .. we’ve had a Yahoo group as backup for years .. freerepublic2

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2

Just have to sign up with Yahoo with a Yahoo email address, if not already in possession of that, and you can post away.

Granny .. prayers that you’re feeling stronger. God bless you with His healing.