I think they had some procmail problem...
=2E.. and back home they put in a spam filter on the ped.gu.se SMTP...
so I had to learn something, too
Eva
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:15:55 +0200
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
=46rom: Eva Ekeblad <eekeblad who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Of interest to at least some
Cc: eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se
At 11.52 -0400 98-04-16, Bill Barowy wrote:
>"How long can a thread last on nothing?"
The list has been kinda quiet after that... unless it is the ped.gu.se POP
server playing selective tricks on my message reception. The Gothenburg
SMTP server is plain refusing to send anything today, that's why I'm trying
the weber path instead, a bit uncomfortably.
Now, the xmca is usually pretty quiet when it's AERA time: a lot of the
list population unplug from this cyberplace and go to meet face to face, in
circumstances of noise, glaring light and/or oxygen deprivation. For me,
who went to the "Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Pre-session Institute"
Saturday-Monday and then participated very peripherally by hanging around
illegitimately on a few sessions Monday and Thursday it was a pretty
magical experience to see all these people who I have known for years
through their written interactions materialize in the same room with me,
being very recognizable, especially as soon as they got into talking.
Convinced me even more of how the way(s) we perform ourselves in written
interaction bears out in a different medium the way(s) we perform ourselves
in the body and voice...
The experience was very different from one I had last year, when I saw for
the first time in fifteen years (in some cases twenty) the fifteen or so
young women I went to art school with back in the late sixties-early
seventies.
THAT produced a strange oscillation between recognizing them from as they
were THEN and relating to them as they were NOW: seeing in one moment these
middleage women, with whom I was now exchanging the ToCs of some rich life
experiences (as if they were new acquaintances) and seeing in the next
moment these girlish faces and bodies I had known so well for four crucial
years, but OH so worn by time and life... what has HAPPENED to us (while I
was sleeping in the cave)??
Going back and forth between the past and the present like this was very
uncomfortable in the beginning of the afternoon, but as the evening went on
the two takes eventually merged.
Seeing the xpeople required much less adjustment, as cyberprojection merged
into copresence.
Now... the conference should also be written about, but I'm not too clear
on what to say...
Eugene, on lunch break, reminded me that I used to be the one to keep asking=
:
Why are we doing this?
And the whole thing (with notable input from Mary Bryson and Charles
Bazerman) reminded me also that the question: Who are we doing this for?
is even more important to ask.
Eva
wondering if this gets through