Magazines,Newsgroups, Lists, Forums, Blogs
Historically, it would be invaluable to have a common data base for these various categories.
I have copies of two or three independent magazines made in the 50s and a number made after the great exodus and hope to be able to put those up when I have gone through all my books and put brief data up on this page.
There were only two news groups concerned with Scientology (things were simpler then): ACT (alt.clearing.technology) and ARS (alt.religion.scientology) but there is a fair amount to say about them, and I did not follow them so closely.
I ran a list for some years - some one, slightly pessimistic about the behaviour of "free Scientologists", recently remarked:
- I remember my participating in IVY discussions and contributing was actually one of the highlights of my experience in the FREEZONE. I have found the IVY crowd to be overall far more mature and saner than most other Scn related forums. I think you should, as its former editor, be congratulated for it.
So perhaps I should say something about that :-)
Forums and Blogs are also things I have not participated in - but a historical report on them is vital to a history of free Scientology - all these things are ways we communicated, and hold quite a key to developments in the broader Scientology area.