> I believe that Heiko's most recent email may be a Fluxus Memory Test
> challenging people to remember the difficulties caused by the virus that
> came in his last email attachment. And what would the appropriate Fluxus
Labelism. It seems that Allen didnt understand under what circumstances
such things happen. 1., you have make attachments self executing. Then,
you have to ignore extra warning messages, caused by the OS. Imagine a
bla.bat with format c: as the attachment. Its difficult to decide if the
MS OS is braindead or some of its users. Somehow like: dont put poodles
into your microwave oven, a case from california. But the general opinion
in the Loveletter viri cases was, that MS is braindead becaus it lets its
users put poodles into the oven. Allen is probably using a Mac...
MS computers decide what to do with a file by its ending, which is a good
thing. So a file with the ending exe or com or, in the Loveletter cases,
vbs, would be executed, a file with the ending mid would be just played.
Dont remember exactly why I found the robots response to the file, I sent,
maybe somebody remembers the context, funny and appropriat to this list.
Sotosay "Real fluxus"... Anyway, after the first Loveletter things, people
started to fool robots by giving harmless stuff the ending vbs. Or calling
something innocent Loveletter.vbs. Robots around the world complained for
no reason.
But I remember also well the reactions to this "real fluxus" "date
raping" thing. Nobody except very naiv persons would have taken this
serious.
When fluxus began in the Cage class, they were some of the most avantgarde
people of its time. Those who call themself "fluxus" today are not.
H.
