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        -- Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley is now on-line --
 
-- Please distribute widely.
 
        After many months of planning, thinking, frustration, and hard
work, Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley is now on-line and ready
to begin its work.
        We've been thinking and dreaming about this for the past two
years. Finally we've made it into a reality.
 
        Community ConneXion (c2, c^2, or c-squared) has been founded
in order to build up a strong community in the internet both locally
and globally. We are linked into the worldwide NEXUS-Gaia movement
which is building up a worldwide community of like-minded
network-oriented individuals.
 
        We've realized that the internet is not about the protocols
nor the universities nor the corporations nor the politics which form
the basic infrastructure. All these things are merely the
facilitators, the parts which come together to produce the whole; the
internet is about people communicating and making connections with
each other-- forming the social infrastructure.
	We've appeared in order to facilitate these connections.

	We've setup shop here in the SF Bay Area and we will integrate
virtuality and reality. It is possible for virtual communities to merge
into, supplement, and sometimes even create "real" flesh communities.

	In order to build up this community we've put some computers on the
internet and have started offering services. These are quality services
provided at a low cost, with an emphasis on community involvement. We
emphasize privacy because there can be no strong community where people
fear their neighbors. By allowing people to selective reveal themselves, we
make easier for them to break down the walls of prejudice which come
between people in social interactions.

	We're offering mailboxes, shell accounts, anonymous remailing
services, ftp space, domain names, mail exchanging, strong psuedonymous
identities, and more as time goes on.  We're building up a barter-coupon
system so that volunteers who help our community can earn credits to use to
buy more services from our system or, as the NEXUS-Gaia project grows, from
Nexi around the world. The barter-coupon system is implemented using a
secure and private anonymous digital cash scheme.  We're asking for help
from people to build our community. It can't be done with only a few
people. Everyone involved can help out to build the system.  A community is
a group effort. As we build the community we improve our lives.

	For more information and to sign up, use your favorite
World-Wide-Web browser to look at http://www.c2.org or, if you don't have
access to a WWW browser, telnet to c2.org and login as "guest". Most
services are offered with an initial two week free trial period.
	In order to subscribe to our mailing list, send the message
"subscribe nexus-berkeley" to majordomo@c2.org. (From a UNIX prompt: "echo
subscribe nexus-berkeley | mail majordomo@c2.org") If you have any
questions, send mail to info@c2.org.

-sameer
Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley
Voice: 510-841-2014
Pager: 510-321-1014
Email: info@c2.org