[microsound] Contracts full of eels

[set]

hmm... the second mail came thru, and on double check; i do have
"recieve my own posts" set to "yes"... and can't have
been blocked since i just updated the address i had registered. Probably
some obscure and unwanted gogolemagick.... (^^,)

Oh well, how much harm can it do to send it again, in a world full of
filters? I hope none, however rest assured i won't do it again :)

Yours enthusiastically,
Set

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Subject: Re: [microsound] Contracts full of eels
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:56:54 +0100
From: Set Hallstrom <sakrecoer at gmail.com>
To: microsound at or8.net

I for one am super happy about this awakening!
Some people do cross words, other do sudoku, i read ToS. And so in 2012
after spending 8 hours reading the ToS, I deactivated my facebook (yeah,
deletion is impossible). Afterwards I couldn't sleep for weeks, thinking
of all the people i had recruited for them out of sole desire to share
my music.

I haven't looked back, my website is alive again, and there are plenty
of really fun places out here in cyberspace!

I might participate in this Topic, probably reading the Contract Full of
Eels that Facebook is ruled by.

Yours,
Set

On 2016-02-10 19:26, john saylor wrote:
> (ding)
> 
> On 02/10/16 10:00, Sietse wrote:
>> 
>> Well, this whole mailinglist is now useless.
>> 
> 
> hmm ...
> 
> there's still traffic on it occasionally and subscriptions and
> removals are all working.
> 
> i guess if you think it's useless it is.
> 
> 
> -=+=-
> 
> 
> (from t.merton's poetic translations of zhuangzhi)
> 
> The Useless Tree
> 
> Hui Tzu said to Chuang, "I have a big tree, the kind they call a 
> "stinktree." The trunk is so distorted, so full of knots, no one can
> get a straight plank out of it. The branches are so crooked you
> cannot cut them up in any way that makes sense."
> 
> "There it stands beside the road. No carpenter will even look at it. 
> Such is your teaching - big and useless."
> 
> Chuang Tzu replied, "Have you ever watched the wildcat crouching, 
> watching his prey. The prey leaps this way, and that way, high and
> low, and at last lands in the trap. And have you seen the Yak? Great
> as a thundercloud, he stands in his might. Big? Sure, but he can't
> catch mice!"
> 
> "So for your big tree, no use? Then plant it in the wasteland, in 
> emptiness. Walk idly around it, rest under its shadow. No axe or
> bill prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down."
> 
> "Useless? You should worry!"
> 
> 
> 
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Set Hallstrom
AKA Sakrecoer
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