[AGL] AGL ghetto list still extant...

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Apparently everyone subscribed here is also subscribed to Fontaine's 
doppelganger maillist, except for me and Susan Todd Kramer,  a list 
creatively named ghetto2, created if memory serves by a quondam 
subscriber whose name I forget who worked from a state agency and lived 
in Houston and then up and died. If memory serves Simmons had a hate 
Mike snit at that time or maybe it was the Houston gent and Simmons and 
the Houston gent and a third, possibly Fontaine, contracted with 
Pair.com for your basic cheap FTP account which gives you some space in 
one of their servers, 100 mailbox addresses, and 1 maillist. If you want 
an Internet presence, you pay every year for the domain name, once $35 a 
year, now ~$13 a year. Simmons way back and Travis Rivers up and opted 
for a Austin Ghetto website and the former got stuck with having paid 
the $35 and Travis never coming up with the money (surprise!). And Karen 
learnt some basic html coding and she or Fontaine or both paid for it 
for a few years. Unfortunately, I cannot find any trace of it saved at 
Wayback Machine. Anyone knowing its exact URL will likely find an 
instance of it in the WaybackMachine archives. Karen, what was the exact 
address of our lost website? It should be right there in WaybackMachine, 
and it is easily resusitated. Its ongoing costs would be $25 a year, if 
hosted by Pair.com, from my FTP account.

On a related subject, I attach a screen grab of the beginning of a very 
amusing review of 3 books on the phenomenon of social media like Facebook.

The link to the review is 
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product

Parcipating in a maillist is easy if your just writing words. To attach 
a picture to the email is about at the edge of the average woman's 
competence. To code in a video clip that starts when the email is opened 
is tricky tricky tricky. So Facebook and other social media do it for 
their users. Of course to monetize their efforts their only business 
plan is to mine their subscribers' every buying preference/prejudice and 
sell it to advertisers. The George Carlin rule is that if you push the 
grocery wagon around the store, you're working for them. But everyone 
does that. It's a trade-off. If you're going to use Google search than 
you will see many ads on various webpages for stuff you, Mr Google user, 
have researched the previous week. All the major news sites contract 
with Google to place your personally tailored wish list. Google pays 
them for doing it. If you don't want to see the ads, you can, i believe, 
instruct Google not to use your personal data. Good luck with that! 
Besides, Google has the best search engine. As for Facebook, my poisonal 
objection is aesthetic, so I won't subscribe to it although wife Madelon 
does.

But email writing and reading them has kinda gone out. The with-it 
millenial of whom I am not depends on texting and Facebook. Enjoy!

On 8/6/2017 9:55 PM, Frances Morey wrote:
> Hi, GH2 folk,
> In corresponding with Mike Eisenstadt he suggested that I send a note 
> about AGL. Apparently his commercial account for the Umlauf sculptures 
> entitles him to have a virtually free pairlist account which he has 
> used to run AGL over the years.
> This might be another solution for us. He said that there are still 
> over 40 people still on the AGL list. This could be preferable to the 
> FaceBook solution.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> Here is the note Mike sent me: "Ghetto folks also have the option of 
> subscribing
> or resubscribing to austin-ghetto-list by emailing me (Mike) at 
> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
> Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Mike

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