...and speaking of random tangents
2007.04.19 15:27
In the future everything will be an advertisement.
...and speaking of Agitation!
From: lauf-s
To: archipol [a now defunct email list at Archis]
Re: regrets, of course
Date: 2001.08.21
I received 1593+ emails, and for about 20 minutes Sunday morning I wasn't sure what shape my email or system would be in afterwards, or if I lost other emails. Luckily all turned out to be OK. I'm sure many others had the same exact feelings, and probably have even more reasons to be upset. I truly wish none of it happened.
I can't say I feel responsible though, because it seems that my email Happy Saint Helena Day triggered something that I and everyone else was totally unaware of.
For what it's worth, if I start writing about the archipol incident of August 18-19, it will have to be as a reenactment of the other EPICENTRAL events.
From: Ole Bouman
To: archipol subscribers
Re: archipol mailbomb
Date: 2001.08.21
Archipol owes you a clarification of what happened to your e-mail facility last weekend. First of all: it wasn't caused by a virus.
Archipol is an almost sleeping giant. It was... Till one of its persistent contributors, lauf-s, has something to share with us.
Then this:
Mary Jo Torrey's 'out of office' e-mail notice resulted in a kind of e-mail bomb in the mailing list. The notice bounced back and forth between her mail server and all the members of the mailing list at a speed which runned up to 100 messages per minute! Even the e-mail system of our provider almost collapsed. All the members of the list became thousands of e-mails until our provider put a halt to it by unsubscribing Mary Jo. According to our provider this is a very rare phenomenon, which might be a perfect thing for activist action, but which is fatal to a group of serious people waiting for the final awakening of Archipol.
Although we bear no responsability to the side-effects of automatic responders that people might use, we want to apologize for the great inconvenience. We hope that you will be still there when the real Archipol is raising its voice. We are now working on a post-New-Economy version of a mail-community which will be launched in the near future.
We keep you posted
(if you still have the stomach for it...)
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4. Rosa
4. gardens of satire
4. saintly email bombs
4. mnemonics
4. all the errors that remain herein
--dedication of A Quondam Banquet of Virtual Sachlichkeit: Part II
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I'm waiting for Volume's "Behind the Times!" issue or maybe that's what they all are.
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