De : Ken Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
� : Fluxlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Envoy� : vendredi 23 juin 2000 20:16
Objet : FLUXLIST: Which "we" did Sol Nte represent as list administrator?
> Here I will make a personal note of distinction. I was one of the
> founders. I would like to have seen a slightly different kind of
> list than the Fluxlist we have today. I would have enjoyed a
> list in which we had greater historical and critical reflection.
> Perhaps one day, I will try to develop such a list. As it is, I am
> happy to remain a member. I read, I think, and I enjoy some of
> the interactions. Some don't interest me. That's how it is.
We are a few that would have liked to see such a list remain, with greater
historical and critical reflexion. It's been more than a year since I came
to this list for the first time, and I saw it changing progressively to
reach today situation. I don't want to judge, but I saw some interesting
question remaining without answer, lost in the flux (;-))=[ of absolutely
empty mails. The guilt may be our, the scholars that have subscribed to the
list and don't write enough, but I also know that our answers are longer to
write than the
the definitive declaration about the comparated advantages of napster, mp3,
and big companies(oh my Lord), and that we hardly have
the ability of following the rythm of the mutations of subject matters. Mail
lists are
wonderful medias for witz, but hard places for a true act of
thinking -particuliarly when you're not a native english speaker as I am.
And when we try to reach the same level of reacting time as the mp3's fans,
we might make a misinterpretation and take an absolutely wrong way -as it
happened to Ken when the Lord used Lightworks to show how unfair was MP3 to
his shrimphonies (great idea, really).
So may be it is our fault, but I really don't know how I could do to follow
the posts' rythm (and to be honest, I shall say that I don't know how some
of us do): I can't spend my day answering the last post that arrives,
whereas I 'm slowly, but surely, snowed under with work.
By the way, I remember some of those questions with no debate, no answer,
and even no impact:
Intermedia;
The event and the question of the history of Fluxus raised by DB
Chirot -which of course touchs me a lot for many reasons;
and some other "light" problems, I won't look for right now (it's late, and
I'd better sleep).
> I say "thank you" to Sol for prompt, effective action, and I
> thank every list administrator who does the work it takes to
> keep this list up and running for those of us who take part.
>
SO DO I
Bertrand.
