Robin: Buffalo went through a mess bad enough for the whole thing to be
reorganized, with every post read by the list master before being passed on
to the list. Quite a while ago, and I left it shortly thereafter.
Mark
At 03:35 AM 6/14/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Wystan:
>
>> robin,
>> i say 'to the email group situation'--not 'peculiar to this email
>> group'. i.e. all email discussion groups. the 'particular' applies to the
>> 'scenario.' I was struck by that moment at which two mutually
>exclusiveness
>> views were proposed, Candice's and Kent's, as to the identity of David
>> Hess's and Kent's emails. That was the moment of no return. wasn't it?
>> wystan
>
>Monday I agree with Candice ...
>Tuesday I agree with Kent ...
>Wednesday I think it doesn't matter: the end result's the same ...
>Thursday I think it doesn't matter: the end result's the same ...
>Friday I think it doesn't matter: the end result's the same ...
>
>I take your point about the general email situation (though I'd tend even
>then to localise it to 'the list situation', as even newsgroups have a
>slightly different dynamic. The common element between email/list/group
>would be the cyberidentity problem, but here we've got something including
>but beyond that).
>
>But having managed to drag myself out of that trailing parenthesis (and not
>to push this too much further since things have calmed down, and the last
>thing I want to do is stir it again) -- what we've had recently seems to be
>local to a set of poetry groups, but also go beyond any one particular group
>(of The Big Four, Poetics-at-Buffalo seems to be immune because it's [for
>all of me] an only marginally galvinised corpse).
>
>In an odd way, it's distinctly freaky, and beyond the norm of your average
>cyberchaos.
>
>(Incidentally, anyone come across an SF novel by Vernor Vinge called _A Fire
>in the Deeps_? Not cyberpunk, but inter alia a mythologising of cyberspace.
>It contains the [to me, enormously resonant phrase] "The Web of a Thousand
>Lies", and makes instructive reading in the light of recent events.)
>
>Robin
>
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