Re: virus: The experiment is over STOP ALREADY

Marie L. Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:42:21 -0800


Brett... Your post was most eloquent. I had sorted out (wrongly I assume
though I feel truly confused) that you had hacked out how to post using
Richard's e-mail address and that the ruse was yours....

Richard did a double whammy on me. I will take the time to nurse my wounds
and return to the fray.

By the bye I have been visiting a place called Ultima Online for the past
two months. As someone who is interested in memetics but does not claim
professional status as an engineer I see this as a seething cauldron of
meme generation. It is a new frontier. A virtual world where the
inhabitants are in the same struggle with/against the creators.

Perhaps there is a parallel. Having been interested in computers since
1979, I have watched the relationship of computer user to computer artist.
Those who create software are to my mind artists...

Now perhaps Richard can claim the title of performance artist... but who
knows. There are several other former (?) list members who might have
pulled this off.

Whatever. Whoever. However. The juices got stirred again.

Marie, who in Ultima Online is Lady Casey, Master Warrior and whenever she
slays a dragon, she puts the face of her most recent human tormentor on the
beast...

PS

My apologies to anyone on the list I might have offended. If I am not as
present here, it is because I prefer the fantasy.

Marie

Marie L. Foster

<http://www.geocities.com/~mfos/>