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Please Note:

The Interactivist Network has not been active for some time.

A few of our projects have fallen off the internet. Some have lived on, or been reborn. Some of our work continues within other organizations. But we have not done work under the Interactivist banner in some time.

We are reviving this site to serve as a document of the work we did in the late 1990s through the late 2000s. (February 2021).

StealThisEmail.com is a web based e-mail service provided by Interactivist to activists.

When starting this project we decided on a course somewhat different than most providers; you cannot sign up for a StealThisEmail account. These accounts are only available to people known and trusted by us directly, or vouched for by people who fit into the first category.

We decided on this model for providing activist e-mail accounts for a number of reasons, the first being managability. Upon speaking to other tech collectives, such as OAT/TAO and the Red Cursor Collective, the group that runs riseup.net, we were warned that running an open registration e-mail service is extremely draining on resources and time. Running a mass-scale service can go from being a side project of an organization to taking most of the effort of the group just to keep it running.

Doing things on a more community oriented model has allowed us to let StealThisEmail.com to grow at a pace that is controlled by us, so that neither our volunteers, nor our servers get overloaded.

Also, our methods intend to build a specific and intentional model of trust. We want people within the activist community to be able to see StealThisEmail addresses and know that this person is an activist with a real connection to us and our community.

Our goal is to encourage other groups and organizations to replicate our model, and build their own services along similar guidelines.

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