Fwd: [Reader-list] spectre, a new list from/for deep europe

[Frederic Madre]

amused ?

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>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 08:51:57 +1000
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>Dear Readers,
>
>in early 1996 the Syndicate mailinglist was founded and for a good five
>years functioned as an important trading ground for ideas and information
>about European new media culture (and increasingly also beyond 'Europe').
>Its main focus was to establish an exchange between former West and former
>East Europe. The list boomed and almost crashed during the Kosovo crisis in
>1999. This arts and culture got intensely tense between those who favored
>the NATO bombing and intervention and those who criticized it. Syndicate
>carried a lot of first hand reports from the region at time. Never having
>recovered from this controversy something slowly went wrong with the list.
>Like reader the list was open and unmoderated, unprotected. Dialogue faded
>away. Announcements took over. Silence set in. Then a few net.artists
>started to use the list as their forum and posted immense ammounts of
>self-promoting ascii art posting, full of hatred. Syndicate got deserted and
>in a matter of weeks was destroyed by a hand full of people. You can see it
>for yourself: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/. In my opinion it's a good
>lesson what can happen to list. Now a new initiative has been launched by
>the same people called Spectre. It's an interesting read what they learned
>from this bitter case of so-called net.art destroying a community: