[syndicate] Re: Yes, but is it art?

[Michael Watson]

At 09:31 PM 3/9/02 +0100, you wrote:
>At 09:52 09/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>
>>http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3909023%255
E7642,00.html
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>>Yes, but is it art?
>>Cath Hart
>>08mar02
>
>Dear Mez,
>
>I do not get the point of what you do anymore.
>

i do not get the point of looking at bondage photons in _safety_ of my room.
Getting tied up and feeling the boot, yes.

>
>to me it is perfectly true that what you are doing is definitely _not 
>engaging in the various discourses of the lists that you are on but simply 
>use them and the subscribers who, sometimes, are also subcribed to several 
>of those lists hence receive the stuff x times, exactly the same stuff x 
>times and probably delete it x-1 times at best.
>

do ppl not know how to filter email?

>now sending this one in the same manner, cross posted, would enlighten the 
>fact that all you are trying to achieve is getting your name mentioned x 
>times to the y number of subscribers of the x lists you cross post to and 
>that is it.
>

and your point is? (is there something wrong with building a name to
broadcast a msg?)

>why would anyone care about being labeled art on the internet ?

why express yourself at all?

Michael

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