Hi Ronnie,
I agree with you about the usefulness and
desirability of the [Dark Tourism] preface.
To be fair to Victoria, I think it was actually Vic
who christened this interesting thread as "Hello."
Perhaps for the spam-related reason that Ronnie
identifies, I was initially wary of replying to
Vic's message. This was mainly because I didn't
recognize Vic's name as a previous contributor to
the Dark Tourism forum, and I always wonder why
people who I don't know would like to hear my opinions.
Of course, this never seems to stop me from offering
my opinions :)
But it would be nice to have the DARK TOURISM
moniker in each incoming message.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronnie Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, April 2, 2006 12:55 pm
Subject: [Dark Tourism] Re: Hello
> Not a reply to Victoria, but a point that her post
prompted:
>
> This post arrived in my e-mail inbox as "Re:
Hello" from a person
> whose name I didn't recognise. I almost had it
flagged as spam,
> since
> it exhibited a number of the common
characteristics of that form of
>
> mail. So, and this is positively not intended as a
slight against
> Victoria, what would people think about prefixing
all their posts
> to
> the list with the phrase "Dark Tourism" in square
brackets, so that
>
> people like me with itchy spam trigger fingers
don't miss them -
> even
> better if the mailer daemon at Jiscmail could be
persuaded to do
> this
> automagically. Any thoughts?
>
> Best wishes to all, especially Victoria, whose
posting I have hi-
> jackedRonnie
>
>
> On 2 Apr 2006, at 12:09, Victoria Lindsay wrote:
>
> > Hi Vic,
> >
> > I’ve just been catching up with the mails -
there is an
> interesting
> > book
> > which concentrates on what is considered
tasteful and what is not
>
> > and what
> > is published and what is not in the media, it
focuses on war but
> > also covers
> > natural and manmade disasters. The book also
considers why people
>
> > want to
> > look at photos of people dead or dying.
> > - Body Horror - Photojournalism, catastrophe and
war. John Taylor
> –
> > New York
> > University Press 1998
> >
> > This books mentions Sobchak’s photographers
gazes - a journalist
> > accidentally unwittingly filming something / a
journalist
> helpless to
> > intervene / a journalist who can’t intervene due
to danger / a
> > journalist
> > hypnotized by scene and the journalist as
uninvolved witness.
> >
> > Both of these might be of interest
> >
> > Happy Easter,
> >
> > Victoria
> >
>
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