It was through that anarchist email list that I learned about the plans for an Independent Media Centre for the 1999 protests in Seattle. Along with the accompaning Indymedia site, which became the focus on my media activism for most of the 2000s.
From there I also learned about the Nothingness situationist email lists;
https://www.nothingness.org/about.html
(FYI list links are currently broken, but the page gives a favour)
As well as a bunch of other activist email lists hosted in various places.
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