Re: Passports Please! (was SIGN YOUR LOCATIONS!)

From: Gary Berendsen (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 09:01:01 PST


Howabout a frappr map?
Someone could start it

gary

On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Pablo Marin wrote:

> 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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