Dear List,
Thanks for all your thoughtful self-generated debate this month - do
keep it up! I've found it really informative and I hope it will also
lead into the theme that will be posted on March 1st.
I've now just about recovered from the great opening party at FACT
<www.fact.co.uk> - I remember dancing at some point. It's a very
interesting new building with different kinds of spaces for different
kinds of media work, and I've invited Michael Connor of FACT to
contribute in March. Following on the debate about curating education,
I've also invited Barnaby Drabble of Curating Degree Zero <<http://www.curatingdegreezero.org>www.curatingdegreezero.org>.
Some queries came up this month about the List itself, so here are some
things for information:
1. This list is not actually technically 'moderated' in that we don't
screen or select postings before they are posted. We like to keep it
open. We do however privately request members who repeatedly break the
guidelines to stop doing so (and very occasionally we remove members who
ignore the requests). We occasionally wade in if things get sticky
(with varying degrees of success).
2. I changed the default to 'reply-to sender' rather than 'reply-to
List' because of the understandable occurrence of people accidentally
treating all 350 of us to personal messages (and subsequent apologies).
I still think this is the best option, because the results of inevitable
human error are less bad. Just keep an eye on your headers - if you
definitely want to talk to the whole list, then you should be emailing [log in to unmask]
yours,
Beryl
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