@ T H E S P U N K N I K State of the Collective Bulletin Issue for 94.46 (Week 46, 1994) Published by the Spunk Press Collective ======================================================================= The excuse for the existence of Spunk Press is the desire of some individuals to see alternative literature continue to flourish, but this time online! The policy of Spunk Press is to act as an independent publisher of works converted to, or produced in, electronic format and to spread them as far as possible on the Internet and in the BBS society free of charge. The work may not necessarily originate from someone with net access. The major interest of Spunk Press is alternative literature and anarchist material, both old, con- verted, and newly produced. INFORMATION SUBSCRIPTIONS Send an e-mail message to spunk-info-request@lysator.liu.se and you will be added to the Spunk Press information distribution. This simply means that you will receive the catalogue by e-mail every time a new issue is published and that you will receive this newsletter. HOW TO REACH THE ARCHIVE file://etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Politics/Spunk http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Jack.Jansen/spunk/Spunk_Home.html ROBIN FOR THIS ISSUE Mikael "MC" Cardell ======================================================================= @ IN THIS ISSUE Items listed below can be searched with your favorite text viewer or editor. Simply search for "@ foo" and you will find the entry corresponding to "foo". @ Spunk Press and The Spunknik @ Spunk Regional Contacts @ Anarcocapitalism @ Spunk mentioned @ New catalogue coming up @ SPUNK PRESS AND THE SPUNKNIK Lately there has been a lot of confused messages sent to the collective from people on the Spunk Press information distribution that clearly showed that some of the people on the list don't know they are on the list, don't know what Spunk Press is about and don't know why on earth they are getting messages such as "please subscribe me" sent to them. First, the Spunk Press information distribution is simply a distribution list intended for Spunk Press catalogues and other related material, such as this newsletter, and not a general discussion forum. However, we want the mailing list to be open, so that anyone in the editorial collective running Spunk Press can post to it. The address to subscribe to the information distribution is spunk-info-request@lysator.liu.se but some people send their requests to the list address instead and, of course, these requests explodes to every address in the file in my home directory at Lysator instead of ending up in my (mc's) Lysator mailbox, which is the proper place for requests such as this. There is another mailing list for internal affairs in Spunk Press --- the editorial mailing list. This mailing list is also open for everyone; for people who just want to listen in to what is discussed or for people who want to partake in the coordination of actions within Spunk Press. The address for subscripiton to this list is spunk-request@lysator.liu.se and the address spunk@lysator.liu.se is used to get in touch with the collective. It has been decided at the Spunk Press editorial list, that a regular newsletter should be sent out through the information distribution list to help clear the muddle of Spunk Press. This is the first issue. Robin for this issue is Mikael Cardell and I don't really know who's up next as our round-robin editor. @ SPUNK REGIONAL CONTACTS There is a new Spunk Press regional contact list available, with addresses to people involved in Spunk Press for a large number of countries, now including Croatia and Australia. The file is available as Spunk_Contacts, I think, in the FTP main archive and through the WWW home page. See above for addresses. @ ANARCOCAPITALISM Spunk Press usually archives alternative literature and texts with a libertarian socialististic bend, but there a few anarcocapitalistic files in the archives as well. During the last few weeks there has been a hefty debate on the collective list if we should keep the material or not. The concensus seem to be that we shouldn't bother to actively include capitalistic texts of any kind, but that we should keep some of the texts that directly deal with our form of anarchism, such as the critical piece by Ken Knudson. Texts like this can be marked by being placed in a special directory in the archives, such as "Criticism of Anarchism" or something of the sort. @ SPUNK MENTIONED o Linsen, a student paper at Link\"oping University, Sweden, carried an interview with Mikael Cardell, one of the founders of Spunk Press, in the last issue and gave a favorable review of Spunk Press material. o An article covering Spunk Press is available at http://www.interlog.com/eye but I haven't had the time to check it out yet. o Spunk Press was represented at the Anarchy in the UK fair in London. A detailed report of the event and what it meant for Spunk Press will show up in this medium as soon as Ian and Micah can get their acts together and co-write something. o We were also mentioned in the Internet World magazine, which published a letter from mc complaining about the incorrect subscription address for P@ Online that they had carried about six months ago. o An article, written by yours truly [that is me, mc], in the last issue of the large Swedish syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren (Swedish for "The Worker") deals with network access, anarchists on the net and, naturally, Spunk Press. @ NEW CATALOGUE COMING UP A new issue of the archive has been sent to Paul S at umich. It will show up as soon as he unpacks it. The new catalogue will be sent out through the information distribution as soon as we know the archive is in place. The new issue has 660 titles, which is N titles more since the last update. The new version of the archive has special packed DOS archive available for BBS sysops to download. It's 6 MB. The unpacked archive is 13 MB. THE END - This text is published on 100% recycled electrons.