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[Claudia Westermann]

Dear Katherine,

referring to your article
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/print.html

 > Netochka's medium is the online mailing list. Posting as "antiorp" and, 
more recently, "integer," she capriciously > takes over technical and 
artistic discussions in forums such as the European Net arts list 
Syndicate, says Steev > Hise, a Bay Area electronic artist.

please correct the link  to Syndicate mailing list to 
http://anart.no/~syndicate


 > An appearance by Netochka frequently derails a mailing list, devolving 
it into a flame war about free speech vs.
 > the rights of the community. Soon mailing-list members will be choosing 
sides: the defenders of freedom of
 > expression at all costs! The fed-up denizens who just want her off the 
list! And the few who believe they see the
 > brilliance in her indirection, the beauty in her sly, circumspect ways. 
All talk of anything else is soon abandoned.

well ...
I think, it would have been better to do some research on your own. 
Possibly you could have constructed an own opinion.

is research a time problem ? were you very much under time pressure ?
I cannot believe that one feels very comfortable with doing work in this way.
Sometimes it is very necessary to say 'no'.
A 'yes' to life.


with kind regards
claudia westermann

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