Women are creating themselves, and the conditions to getting access to electronic communiction. Echonet in New York was one of the first private examples to organize female access. The response was phenomenal, providing the evidence that women are interested in online communication. Their initiative femail was founded in 1995. It runs on a simple pc, with text based mailbox software.
Participants dial in via modem, and post their messages as text.
Femail was such a local, European mailbox network which was in German, and had mainly Austrian, Swiss and German participants. The advantage of such systems is that the access is controlled and limited. This can be interpreted as a protected electronic field to develop female discussion strategies. The Pheminist Cyber Roadshow operates according to the interpretations of Sadie Plant, who like VNS Matrix, and define Cyberfeminish by using it as viral infection. They do not deomonize anit-cultural roots of the Internet as a military tool.