[sdiy] Don't hit anybody where it hurts....

[James Husted]

As a member of the MAX/MSP list, NN's post are familiar to me. Now on that
list the situation was a little different. NN creates a product called
nato.0+55 witch is a very powerful video performance package that runs on
the Mac (and maybe others). She was eventually banned from the list there
because her post became very negative and *very* plentiful. They also were
aimed at Cycling74 the current holders of the Max program. Her main site at
the time was www.m9ndfukc.org.
 Anyway, my feelings are that no action should be taken against her based on
the way she acted on other list. If she starts posting on this one in the
same manner, she will be thought of in the same light. There probably isn't
much going on in this list that she would find that interesting anyway. The
main draw was the talk about video synthesizers, which we have moved on by.
On the max list there was much for her to comment on. The real problem I had
with her post were never the ideas she posted (alternate perspectives are
always enlightning to me) but in the format of her post (and most of her
site as well). The wild puntuations and character substitutions are all on
purpose. It is not a foreign character map going on there. In fact a gent on
the Max list wrote a crude "translator" that worked pretty well! I would
love to really hear what she had to say, but reading it was such a pain that
I gave up trying. A real case where the process obscured the product.
-James