From: Pablo Marin (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Feb 05 2006 - 13:19:31 PST
Pablo Marín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
hope this helps thinking outside the NYC/SF/CHI/USA -
UK box.
Best to all.
--- john porter <email suppressed> wrote:
> Exactly Fred! Thanks.
>
> Soon after I joined Frameworks I identified this
> problem and began the short "Where are you?" thread
> a
> few months ago. (I think there was an earlier one
> also, before I joined.)
> I began signing "John Porter, Toronto, Canada", then
> I
> learned how to put that in an automatic "Signature"
> on
> all my emails.
> (Actually, I don't SEE my own emails to Frameworks,
> so
> I just realized that I don't even know if my
> automatic
> "Signature" gets through onto all my posts! Does
> it??)
>
> My thread revealed that some people don't want their
> location known, but for most of us, it would help
> many
> discussions & announcements.
>
> Yes, the Portugal thread is Frameworks at its best,
> and I was wondering WHY is it so special? Surely
> this
> could happen easily on Frameworks in many parts of
> the
> world. But only some of our 600 are reading, only
> some
> of THEM are speaking up, and only some of THEM say
> where they are.
> John.
>
> --- Fred Camper <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > List members who haven't been following this,
> please
> > take a look at the
> > thread that this began as Peter Kubelka VHS and
> > became A-G films to
> > Southern Portugal, and note what the thread was
> like
> > before Jorge
> > identified his location and what happened after.
> > Most recently someone
> > in another part of Portugal wants to help get
> things
> > going. Sorry to be
> > touting my intervention a little bit, but this
> > seems like a great
> > argument for having each poster identify her or
> his
> > location, as I have
> > been doing to little effect for some years now.
> >
> > At the other extreme we occasionally see
> > announcements of screenings
> > with street address and no city from posters who
> > also don't identify
> > their location, as if everyone should know it's
> New
> > York or San Francisco.
> >
> > This thread has become FrameWorks at its best,
> > connecting people and
> > perhaps helping to get screenings started, and
> just
> > when I was
> > completely turned off the list after several posts
> > of mine resulted in
> > complete misinterpretations and falsehoods and
> then
> > we got another round
> > of the interminable Jack Smith dispute.
> >
> > Fred Camper
> > Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth....
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
>
> John Porter, Toronto, Canada
> http://www.super8porter.ca/
> email suppressed
>
>
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