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From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: To much information?
> HI all, happy new year looking forwards to us all.
>
> When i first got onto e-lists in 1994-5 there was a trickle. By the
> end of 1995-6 i was receiving over 300 e-mails every day and probably
> sending somewhere in the region of 50 out each day myself. Sometimes
> they were substantial messages. I remember being involved with the
> spin-off "renga" (we quickly renamed ourselves "rangers") group from
> the poetics list out of SUNY Buffalo and we had extended a
> proliferating branching tree of versions to the extent that in one
> day i received over 100 new versions of the same poem from a
> participant friend in Hawaii.
>
> Every nite i would creep into bed to read lengthy new missives from
> Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN sent out of the jungle in Chiapas
> via the cigarette lighter socket of a jeep.
>
> I HAVE found that since 1999 i read the traffic on lists far less
> completely. For a start i am on so many lists that i would have no
> time left if i did read everything closely. So i use subject headings
> and member names as some guide. I check new members when they post
> and keep an eye on topic developing. But i am way more random (sort
> of) in my participation. Now i have junk filters turned up so
> fiercely that i often find mail from people i would like to have read
> at the time of sending in my junk box (which i clear periodically and
> sometimes use as the stimulus for poems go figure).
>
> I read a lot though. Still read books, teach the proliferation of
> many excellent e-zines, am aprt of reading groups outside work
> interest and have 5 e-mail accounts bringing in far more than i can
> seriously lay claim to have an in-depth knowledge of. But then i read
> about 25 online news sources every day too from all parts of the
> political spectrum and not just within the west.
>
> reading is FUN!!! i like to play
>
> love and looking forwards
>
>
> cris
>
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