On May 16, 11:46 am, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> > Are you saying Mark Wallace is a pseudonym used by
> > Damian Hirst? Or is there another artist who has found
> > controversiality a useful technique to raise his popular
> > profile? I've never heard of Mark Wallace outside of
> > USENET.
>
> Hardly. I used DH as an example of how being successful and being
'good' are
> not necessarily coincident.
> As for MW, I have heard of the name much more outside Usenet than the
once or
> twice here. e.g.:
> A car dealer in West Lothian
> A scientist at Oxford University
> A representative of the Freedom Association and ID card activist
> A wicket keeper for Glamorgan
> A co-author of a book on 'second life' (or 'pervonet' as it is sometimes
called)
> ... to name but a few.
>
> > I took it, by "a man who saws cows in half", that you
> > meant Damian Hirst, by whom I've never seen so much
> > as a limerick.
>
> Why would an artist write limericks?
>
> > Hirst does have a reputation for copying these days
>
> Yes, but we were discussing D. Brown in that context. I would imagine
that many
> cows are sawn in half on a daily basis so not exactly original work.
>
> > Obviously if you happen to know that Mark Wallace
> > works in a beef slaughterhouse in real life you know
> > more than I.
>
> See above. However, there is no reason to suppose that names used on
Usenet are
> real. They are as likely to be pseudonyms as they are to be genuine.
There is
> no mention of Blue Sow on my pass****t.
>
> > Oh, they decided the criticism would be so swingeing,
> > the demand for it so great, and the bandwidth wasted
> > so significantly draining that there were a number of
> > posting guidelines issued.
>
> > I suggest the time has come to review them and also
> > to remember that, in practice, very few people do read
> > them anyway.
>
> Indeed - people post what they will, and respond as they will. So the
> guidelines have no effect on posting habits, revised or otherwise.
>
> --
> Blue Sow
I note that none of the parties involved in
the assays-for-essays scandals re****ted as
Google rejecting adverts touting academic
essays for sale today has volunteered to
co-operate in any screening programmes.
Then again, I don't suppose that the people
who make urine-buffers to work around work-
related drug testing provide samples either.
Gahh. Any idea actually if JANET still puts
any bandwidth into USENET? harvard and umn
and presumably a few other US places still
have groups.
It took me a while to find the thread we'd
been at that one in. Is that a suitable
metaphor? To be "in" a thread? Or should one
be "on" a thread, like a spider or a needle?
Moving on a moment. Or not.
I wonder, is it because of the age demo-
graphic, the incidence of obesity, or the
preponderance of hormones in meat that
the uk is considered the fastest-growing
market for internet ****? Any idea?
G DAEB
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