Dear comrades,<\/p>\n
As you probably already noticed, the Squat!Net server has not been
\nfunctioning very well for a while now. There are a number of reasons for
\nthis: the hardware is old and nearing the end of its life, the collective
\ndoesn’t have much energy to maintain the service and the software we use
\nto run the server is pretty outdated. Last week, one of the mailaccounts
\nwas abused to send tons of spam into the world. This resulted in the
\nmailserver crippling under the amount of mail being sent, our server
\naddress ending up on blacklists of known spammers, and lots of your
\nvalid e-mails being delayed, sometimes for days, or not delivered at all.
\nThese problems have by now been resolved and mail is flowing as usual
\nagain.
\n<\/p>\n
Fixing this spam issue, however, did not solve the more structural
\nproblems we face as a collective, nor the technical state of the server
\nresembling that of a rotten old punk with barely any teeth left. To
\naddress this, we are in the process of resuming the nomadic squat life
\nand abandoning our old house. A large part of the websites have already
\nbeen moved away from the old server and found a new roof under machines
\nof allied collectives. We are planning to do the same for the rest of
\nthe websites, as well as the mail and mailinglists. In time, you will
\nreceive more details about the move, but for now we are still busy with
\npreparations.<\/p>\n
For now, we do have an important question for you: would you like to
\nkeep your @squat.net e-mail address?
\nWe have a lot of abandoned mailboxes on the server, and it would be nice
\nto know which we should move and which can be deleted.<\/p>\n
We will make sure to keep all mailboxes that have been used at least
\nonce in the last year, but we will not keep older ones. If you know
\nsomebody or a collective who has an account, and you think they don’t
\ncheck it regularly, please tell them about it.<\/p>\n
Apart from this, we appreciate any input on which services you value or
\nwould like to see on squat!net. For instance, we ourselves feel like
\nRadar[1], the online calendar, is doing very well, we are happy with the
\nnewssites[2] still being kept up to date in several languages, but we
\nfeel the websites for specific squats and our e-mail service are in a
\nmiserable state. Do you think it’s important to have e-mail and
\nwebhosting for squats on squat!net? Should we rather focus on radar and
\nnews? Do you miss specific services that would benefit the squat
\nmovement? Let us know!<\/p>\n
With revolutionary regards,<\/p>\n
The Squat!Net tech team<\/p>\n
[1]: https:\/\/radar.squat.net
\n[2]: https:\/\/planet.squat.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear comrades, As you probably already noticed, the Squat!Net server has not been functioning very well for a while now. There are a number of reasons for this: the hardware is old and nearing the end of its life, the …<\/p>\n