zwip!

[anna balint]

Good morning there!

[here we have a beautiful day... and some 20 different 
information sources in the appartment continuosly saying 
more or less the same thing. it's just that Radio Baghdad's signal 
went off last night, since than we say it's good to be, 
just like that, and to sleep without bombs falling on us...]

Come on, Clement, of course you are not Andreas Broeckmann!

Two years ago the context was also very different.
[a list and a much more funded infrastructure and production
network based on the starting East-West ralationships,
in principle based on cooperation, but practically using
Eastern resources - at one hand and an assumed (or real) 
Eastern identity kicked off the list. And than 
an unexpected answer: 'we abandon the list, but use your
own infrastrucure, we did start syndicate, it's our intellectual
property'. that was Andreas...]

With all the 100 mails/day i get in different mailboxes,
still the syndicate mails are the most interesting for me,
with or without THth. Of course i don't like all the mails,
but if someone is unsubbed, i irresistibly think that i will
be next to be kicked out. Moreover, if one would ask me 
whether i hope that one day ThTh is going to show up with 
great work, i would say yes [while there are cases, 
where i do not hope]. How do i know that? 
It's because i have seen many works, many work in progress,
and i know that everyone can have bad periods.
Why do i have to bear people going through bad periods?
[meanwhile they have to tolerate me...]
And how to stop all the people in bad mood to come on syndicate?
That's a good question. 

How to differentiate between mails we like and we cannot stand?
How to maintain a good level and good spirit at the list?
In a moment of despair last summer i have seen the chief rabbi 
of Budapest at a rock festival, with a small inscription in front
of him "I answer to your question for 200 HUF' (0.80 EUR)
I have asked him: 'You see rabbi, I am the moderator of mailing list.
In the moment i got to moderate it after a pseudo-debate, and hidden
conflict, hundreds of people hurried to unsrubscribe from it, 
and founded another list. Now two parallel lists are running, 
with more or less the same subscribers, who generate more 
or less identic content, though we have more fun and more crap. 
What is your opinion, is there any reason to keep the list running?'
The rabbi replied with almost a pataphysic answer: 
'Of course my daughter. If one investigate the laws of 
Nature, he arrives to more or less the same conclusions.
But regarding the exceptions to those laws, one can state himself
as singular and individual. Even if different groups would generate 
exactly the same content, that would be also a singular and exceptional
result.' 


My opinion... [more after i come back from the 'girlfriend' weekend]

Besides the wonderful kknut interface I wish to move a bit towards a 
more standard, or a less chaotic, 'normal', transparent, but still 
informal, and 'not too intellectual', but also not simulated 
'non-intellectual' syndicate web page (not necessarily 
changing the the list agreement).
I am ready - if subscribers agree, and one helps me to upload - to 
edit a searchable online reader of the texts that arrived to the list
in the last years, to compile a link list pointing to the pages of the
syndicalist with small commentary and introduction. 
Or in other words - now that we know more who the 'other' is,
i would like to define more what 'syndicate' is, what we do...
That would not only would structure our content, 
but it could give an idea about the desired mails on the list as well.

greetings,
anna 


3/22/2003 9:00:43 AM, "clement Thomas - pavu.com" <ctgr at free.fr> wrote:

>yes.
>that's exactly what i expected from you.
>
>let's see what goes next with this silly game of mine,...
>you know frederic, I'm not andreassito...
>
>clement...
>
>