nettime on Sat, 18 Apr 1998 12:09:49 +0200 (MET DST) |
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[offlist] Re: <nettime> an invitation to the "Nettime" mailinglist |
>infowar is the continuation of communication by other means. Andreas-- It was a joke. There was some talk of putting together a digest of the responses soon afterward, but it fell by the wayside--they weren't very interesting, and other things were afoot. SO there you go. Cheers, Ted On Wed 04/15/98 at 11:50 PM +0100, Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl> wrote: > recently .... > > >Dear "Nettimers": > >Allow me to introduce myself to you all. My name is Nathan Myhrvold, and > >I'm a Group Vice President at Microsoft. > >On behalf of the Microsoft Corporation, I would like to extend an > >invitation to you Nettime to hold your next meeting on our Redmond > >Campus. > > have i missed a joke? or is this thing not even worth the 2 or so K that my > stupid question is taking up on everybody's hard-drives for a moment? > > just for the records: i find the invitation to redmond unacceptable and > would suggest that we ask them to put, if they really believe in nettime, > the money (say US$300.000) into a fund which we'll collectively find ways > of using sensibly, i am sure, to further the cause of net.criticism that > myhrvold is appreciating so much. [apologies for the . - couldn't resist it > ...;-] > > greetings from my smiling Mac/OS 7.5.3 ... > > -a >