Re: futurec.org / futurec.xtc.net

John-Paul May (jpmay@INTELE.NET)
Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:37:24 -0600

Greg notes:

>Well, time for me to be the party pooper. Perhaps I can start
>another FC is dead thread.
>
>I'm totally against futurec.org I have decided. Too official.
>Marius' pages were always just that--*Marius'* pages. In the
>kind of "Here's a list I sub to and here's some stuff from this
>list" kind of tone.
>
>This whole futurec.org project is taking on the same aura of the
>.neXus. thing with Adam Mertz or whatever his name was. "Official
>FutureCulture HomePage"? I hope not. However, the mere fact
>that it's called futurec.org implies a sense of ORGanization that
>I prefer not to see on this list.
>

For what it's worth I totally agree with you Greg. There seems to be
somethign "open" (like unix) about a mailing list. Surely it isn't a good
idea to turn it into something more structured and less open (like Mac OS,
however nice that is). Hope that makes sense.

-- JP

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