[Free-sklyarov-uk] Re: Corrupt CD's - Time for another leafleting session?

[Edward Welbourne]

> Anyway, last time I checked, a train to Bury St. Edmunds from
> Coventry would only go via changing at London. Has it changed in the
> last five years?
quite possibly.

In any case, Bury isn't Cambridge: we're well connected to
Peterborough (as well as London), and there're regular trains from
(among other Western places) Birmingham to sometimes Cambridge,
sometimes Norwich or perhaps even King's Lynn, otherwise Stanstead
(via Cambridge).  Those'll get you here (via a change at Ely or
Peterborough if the train's not direct) fairly tidily - and I suspect
it'll be cheaper than going via London.  I'm assuming Coventry to Brum
is easy, sorry if I'm wrong.

>>> Hmmm, do we (TINW) need any money?
>> erm ... any translation of TINW available ?
> It means "There is no 'We'".
Ah.  Excuse me while I whack myself about the head with a stick and
*still* fail to attain enlightenment.  It's a silly habit, I know.
But maybe `There is no "We"' ties in with ...

> Is CDR an organisation? 
well now, that opens up several questions.  Given a suitable reading
of `organisation' I can answer yes or no (at least) quite happily.

We organise ourselves.  To the extent that this community (I think CDR
can be described thus) benefits from the good graces of someone with
root privileges on a computer (thanks guys ;^) they aid and abet our
organising of ourselves; a website or three and a mailing list.
That's as far as it goes for now; we get to decide how organised we
want to be and we organise that much.

For my own part, I'm inclined to argue for staying just organised
enough to be effective at campaigning - any more just makes life
easier for malicious lawyers.  Robust systems don't suffer
disproportionately from any single constituent being attacked.
Leaders, even if they don't wish it, are moulded into such
constituents by a world which will pretend that the leader is
synonymous with the organisation.

Our single point of failure is a mailing list host; I would suspect
suitably paranoid parties involved will have worked out what to do if
the legal entities with control of that host get bullied ... we'll
find some virtual where else to fore-gather.  Enough of us are
techies: we don't need leaders, we just need root ...

We speak with many voices.  The press may be more willing to report
tales from a single voice, but the hydra is hard to silence, sprouting
new voices ever faster if an enemy is rash enough to try to silence
us, one by one, when - by living with little vulnerable infrastructure
- we cannot be silenced en masse; news of an attack on one of us will
be ammunition for the rest.  Having an unruly rabble tell several
sides of the tale will get public attention and can lead the press to
the doors of FIPR for the single coherent account they crave.

The leaderless can do well by tenuous alliance with the `officially
meek', who can afford to be organised enough to pay salaries.

> (And am I a member, just by subscribing here?)
In so far as the organisation is the mailing list, yes.
Any stronger sense might implicate you in the actions of others.

	Eddy.
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