2001-03-24 - Slovenia
the end of the ministry of experiment as you knew it
on january 31, the syssop of radio student, edi suc, sent me an e-mail with a notification he had to (by the order of the responsible) shut down the hexpo mailing list at "bart" sever of radio student, including its archives.
hexpo@radiostudent.si was an open public list active since may 2000 and was holding at its peak near 300 recipients, mostly in slovenia. it was pitched to the organisational background of the hexpo festival on a local level. radio student was hosting the list not only because of the partnership with ministry of experiment, but also as a co-producer of hexpo.
without additional commentary, i would like just to point out the manner in which the leadership of radio student is cutting civil activites on its server: without warning, announcement and especially, without any explanation to the members of the list using the list itself.
i had never heard before about such destructive behaviour in the case of hosting a public list on the internet, especially by an institution that can afford - as it is sponsored by phare program - public access activities.
in the next days i will request the removal of all the pages hosted at radio student in connection to hexpo festival, including the pages of ministry of experiment and egon march institute:
http://www.radiostudent.si/mzx/hexpo/ http://www.radiostudent.si/mzx/before2000/index.html http://www.radiostudent.si/~march/
for the rest, ministry of experiment, http://www.radiostudent.si/mzx/hexpo/ a non-formal group of media activists, was exiled from their working place at radio student in september 2000, after promoting, developing and educating for internet streaming activities on the international internet scene since 1997.
Source: Marko Kosnik by MT