Entirely agreed.
On 28 Feb 2008, at 19:17, Tom McGuirk wrote:
> Dear Damian
>
> I take your point about taste. I am fine with anyone presenting
> work that is not to my taste but not in the context of just passing
> on seemingly automatically from a mailing list what many
> apart from me find irritating. I know I was being judgmental,
> apologies for that, but it was because of the context.
>
> Let a thousand flowers bloom by all means but don't stick them
> under my nose pointlessly and gratuitously and without argument.
> This forum is not going to be useful if it deteriorates into
> a un-self-regulated free for all. Present arguments and images,
> those others perhaps do not like approve of or agree with, but we
> need some discretion, otherwise the audience/
> participants will withdraw. There have to be some limits and
> standards or as we see every time these are ignored – there are
> mass requests to withdraw from the list.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Tom
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Damian Fennell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native American
>> People" ... also models...for young students
>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:24:47 +0000
>>
>>
>> Whilst I commend anyone who desires to uphold standards of
>> appropriateness etc. on this forum, and as it happens I'm not
>> personally crazy about the work posted in Sylvia's email, I do
>> however feel that Tom's response was more a statement of personal
>> taste than purely the principle of what is suitable to post.
>>
>> I agree that it is inappropriate to post bulk mails from other
>> email networks as we can't choose to unsubscribe from it.
>>
>> However, this is an open drawing forum, and as subscribers to it we
>> have to accept that some of the art content that is posted will
>> not be to our individual taste.
>>
>> Perhaps I might suggest though that members refrain from including
>> images in their postings, but insert a link to a webpage instead.
>> That way the rest of us can opt to visit the webpage, or not,
>> according to personal preference.
>>
>> all the best
>>
>> Damian Fennell.
>>
>>
>> On 28 Feb 2008, at 18:00, Rachandspike wrote:
>>
>>> Sometimes, my faith in mankind is just fully reinstated!!
>>>
>>> BRAVO.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: The UK drawing research network mailing list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom McGuirk
>>> Sent: 28 February 2008 16:55
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native
>>> American People"
>>> ... also models...for young students
>>>
>>> Dear all...
>>>
>>> Apropos this mail (see below) I really feel that however well
>>> meaning, it is
>>> an inappropriate use of this mailing list/forum for members to
>>> merely
>>> forward without so much as comment or any
>>> analysis, material from other mailing lists/networks which they
>>> have at
>>> least had the choice of signing up to. I personally have no interest
>>> whatsoever in reading about the dubiously titled:
>>> Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale or their
>>> phenomenal sales figures and am now going to have to look at
>>> Degas or
>>> Schiele for a half an hour just to cleanse my
>>> retinas and my visual memory of this awful onslaught. At the
>>> bottom of this
>>> mail the original sender is offered the choice to unsubscribe, I
>>> on the
>>> other hand have no defence against this
>>> unwanted – chauvinistic and colonialist – overblown, offensive,
>>> illustration
>>> masquerading as art, (the kind of thing that gives figurative art
>>> a bad name
>>> – you can see my tolerance had been
>>> over stretched :-) ) if I wish to keep receiving the, for the
>>> most part,
>>> interesting contributions from the DR network. Please can we see
>>> some
>>> discretion. I only have so much patience and
>>> more relevantly so much web-mail in-box space. For the love of
>>> Geronimo
>>> desist!! ?
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely
>>>
>>> Tom McGuirk
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Sylvia CORNET" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native American
>>>> People" ...
>>> also models...for young students
>>>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:35 +0100
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Début du message réexpédié :
>>>>
>>>> De : "B & R Gallery" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>
>>>> Répondre à : [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sylvia,
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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