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The Red Rock Eater News Service
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The Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE) is the Internet's most respected source of news and information about the social and political aspects of computing and networking. Now entering its third year of operation, RRE is a mailing list that consists of whatever its editor, Phil Agre, finds interesting. No clutter, no flaming, no endless discussions, no subscription fees. Just a steady trickle (five or ten messages a week at most) of useful materials filtered from a wide range of different sources. To subscribe to RRE, send a message that looks like this:
To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: subscribe firstname lastname
For more information about RRE, send a message like so:
To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: help
Or check out the RRE web pages at
http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html
Read what others have said about RRE ...
Of the many mailing lists that I subscribe to, RRE provides the most consistently interesting and useful content. The information on the RRE list comprises a diverse cross-section of technical, political, and privacy related subjects, most directly relevant to anyone interested in electronic communication/community.
Gregg R. Siegfried Director, System & Network Engineering Claircom Communications Seattle, Washington, USA.
Phil Agre is the only person who furnishes information about the Net that is not just technically and politically, but socially, savvy. I wouldn't do without the Red Rock Eater for keeping up with what's happening, and what it all means.
Howard Rheingold author, The Virtual Community Mill Valley, CA
Thank you for RRE! A lot of electronic communication is ephemeral. Your material I save and re-read, think over what you are saying, test it out against my understanding of how the world works. The difference is like that between white bread bought from a supermarket and a good light-rye sourdough bought from a wood-fired bakery. Much chewier, and much healthier!
Andrew Treloar School of Computing and Mathematics Deakin University Melbourne, Australia
Highest signal-to-noise ratio around! l find RRE to be consistently high-quality and a useful way to find out about other sources of information I hadn't already known about.
Alan Wexelblat Intelligent Agents Group MIT Media Lab
The Red Rock Eater News Service provides me with a small number of highly focused articles about the relationship of telecommunications and the social consequences of telecommunications. This kind of high quality information stream allows me to know more about these types of issues with less work filtering thru the noise of the random newslist. I wish that there were more services like this on other related topics.
John Sechrest Executive Director Computer Science Outreach Services Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon
Red Rock Eater cuts through the intellectual spam and delivers the real meat of the Internet. If you need to know not only what happened yesterday, but what is happening now and what may well happen in the future, Red Rock Eater will spark insights, feed intuition, and keep you entertained as well. It's all content; no hype. Subscribe now and read it every day.
Peyton Stafford Peyton Stafford Associates Portland, Oregon
I find the Red Rock Eater list to be a concise and intelligently edited journal of informative articles and forwarded posts from every far flung corner of the Net, with a ratio of delights to clunkers running about 6 to 4. This is far from faint praise. I belong to several lists, ranging from home educating to Tibetan Buddhism, and the amount of thought provocation is higher on RRE than any other list I to which I subscribe.
Ronald Morgan Contractor/Home-educator San Francisco, Ca.
I have been reading RRE ever since a friend sent me your piece about the Oklahoma City bombing, and I've found the list to be the net's single greatest source of items I feel compelled to forward to others.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden senior editor, Tor Books New York, New York
I have found RRE to be especially useful in filtering socio- political developments in the US on telecommunications and NII policy. As a foreign journalist in a country experiencing rapid expansion from an already large base of Internet users, US developments affect us in major ways. Concise reportage on significant manoeuvres is vital to my work.
One series of bulletins I found outstanding was the coverage of the Time 'cyberporn' cover story and the ensuing fallout. Posting critical documents to the listserv saved me hours trolling through Usenet group.
Dan Tebbutt Contributing Editor LAN Magazine (Australia/New Zealand)
I think the service you provide is a very useful one to the Net community and I rely upon it as a source of useful and timely information about current issues and off-beat topics that I would not otherwise think about if not for seeing them in my emailbox from your server.
Your service has a high signal to noise ratio -- in fact very little noise. Perhaps, too much signal sometimes as one has to slow down and actually read instead of scan the text on the screen.
Peter F. Harter Executive Director & General Counsel The National Public Telecomputing Network
The Red Rock Eater News Service is an excellent institution. Much of the information I can use in my lectures -- and I have often given articles from RRE to students for investigation and inclusion in their papers.
Peter Gorny Informatics Department C. v. Ossietzky University Oldenburg Germany
As a community activist in rural telecommunications access, I find RRE to be the timeliest, most focused, and most concise source of information on potholes in the vaporway.
Dave W. Mitchell Acting Executive Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative
The philosophy of human rights in cyberspace, which was made widely available in RRE, contributed to liberalizing of access to the Internet in Israel.
Omer Zak Datacomm Coordinator Association of the Deaf in Israel
As a freelance writer on Internet-related subjects I have found your service to be invaluable. I write for Denmark's second largest daily newspaper, Politiken, whose Computer-section published each Thursday is read by ca 10 % of the Danish population. Thanks to the Red Rock Eater News Service I have been able to monitor the important issues concerning the Internet and have often relied on your coverage in order to get a full view of the individual story.
Keep up the good work!
Jesper Vissing Laursen Freelance writer Politiken Denmark
The Red Rock Eater News Service has become a valuable source of the information I need to know but don't usually seek. Phil Agre manages to generate a high "save to delete ratio," the ultimate measure of list value.
Barry Orton Professor of Telecommunications University of Wisconsin-Madison
I have subscribed to many lists that deal with issues of politics and policy in the area of high technology, but RRE is the only one to survive my latest purge.
RRE has lots of content but doesn't beat issues to death. Phil Agre is a good editor: he selects well, and he adds useful analysis without bombast. He is a serious student of the issues. I have no trouble discerning his viewpoint, but when he tells me something, I never feel that he's twisted it to conform to an ideology.
Richard Mateosian Freelance Technical Writer Berkeley, California
The Red Rock Eater News Service consistently delivers a thoughtful and eclectic mix of information drawn from a wide variety of sources on how new forms of communication are influencing society.
Brian Kushnir Senior Research Executive Infoplan Tokyo, Japan
I have found the Red Rock Eater mailing list a very useful, fruitful, and entertaining source of information for my research projects.
Ellis Weinberger Senior Library Assistant School of Oriental and African Studies University of London
I appreciate the service you provide. I like the eclectic mix of philosophy, politics, internet culture, and technology theory. I am subscribed to several lists and email newsletters and I find yours the single most useful list. It doesn't flood my mailbox, I don't have to weed out reams of useless information. It's great.
Niall O Dochartaigh (Dr.) Research Officer - INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) United Nations University/University of Ulster Coleraine N. Ireland ```
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