Critical to the guild is a private mailing list that connects the editors, writers, and analysts in the Internet press community."
… Many IPG members hold degrees in technology or science rather than in journalism and/or were programmers, consultants and CIOs before they were writers.The Guild descended from the USENET group alt.internet.media-coverage.
Several members, including Esther Schindler and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, proposed moving their discussions to an invitation-only email list.
The release described the Guild:[2] Writers, editors, and analysts from around the world are uniting to take a stand against shoddy, inaccurate reporting about the Internet.
The IPG and its members are recipients of the Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU Foundation, as part of the fight to prevent censorship through the ultimately failed Communications Decency Act of 1996.