<nettime> mailing list monoculture in three easy steps

["nettime's_c-spammer" <nettime@bbs.thing.net>]

     [when did subscribing to a mailing list become an opt-*out*
      procedure? this kind of thing used to be pretty rare; now
      it's becoming all too familiar. whatever the 'intent'--if
      indeed intent can be ascribed to corporate bodies--the ef-
      fects are (a) to reduce individual mailing lists to robot-
      ic distribution vehicles, and (b) to homogenize diversity 
      across lists. unsurprisingly, the perpetrators are mostly
      institutions. cheers, t]


     date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:36:37 -0800 (PST)
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     date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:06:52 -0800 (PST)
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