Still, I wish the sites were still up, since I found them invaluable and lively and informative. But online publishing is an ongoing, often thankless, effort. Unlike beling able to disavaow a book one wrote earlier in one's career, sites disappear if you don't keep them going. It sucks it came to this, but he is perfectly entited to let the whole affair go if the love is gone for him.
I have a good hippy friend who corresponded with the Allman Brothers fan club. offering his services to them in whatever they needed, eventually uprooting and moving to Macon, GA just to be more involved. He helped promote concerts, lick envelopes, etc etc, happily being involved in something he loved until one day, one of the band members came through the fan club headquartes and proceeded to make fun of the hippy pants he was wearing, and make fun of him in general, souring him on the whole deal. It was devistating to him that people who he spent a lot of his free time devoted to would callously disregard him like that, enough to make him wahnt nothing to do with the band and their music. So, though this is not the exact same situation, I can see how Allen felt. Granted, the artists are under no obligation to history or the fans, but basically the flowers in your garden you ignore, tend to shrivel up.
Alex V. Cook
From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
I have to say that the more I think about it all I really feel that Allen Bukoff has done by withdraw his Fluxus websites is penalise members of Fluxlist and students interested in Fluxus. Those Fluxus artists he addresses more than likely don't care one way or the other whether fluxus.org or fluxlist exists.......certainly they've never taken part so the only people that have taken part in collaborative Fluxus works on the web now get to see their work disappear (e.g Shoe Days etc.).
I can appreciate Allen's point of view but don't really feel that anything has been achieved by closing the websites.
As to the future of Fluxlist - I think it's as healthy as ever, interestingly the number of members is around the same as it was 5 years ago. The list will still provide the virtual forum it always has done.
cheers,
Sol.
