James,
Calling yourself an 'artist' doesn't make you one. There are many such artists
in the world. Ironically there are those without that self-description who
don't realise that they are.
Bob
>________________________________
> From: James Morris <ja...@jwm-art.net>
>To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
><netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>
>Sent: Monday, 6 February 2012, 16:04
>Subject: [NetBehaviour] worries about blacklists
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I recently noticed that facebook warns people about links to my website
>being malicious and surbl.org blacklists my domain name as associated
>with spam.
>
>From what I can tell, some email clients allow filtering of messages
>based upon these blacklists such as multi.surbl.org or ws.surbl.org and
>it is within these lists where my domain is listed in. Spam filters
>which use these lists scan the message _body_ and if a reference to a
>blacklisted domain is found then the message is regarded as spam.
>
>I'm rather disappointed about this and it's lead me to wonder if maybe
>something I've posted here is to blame. I know I've been argumentative
>at times and been reactionary to things I dislike but I hope that the
>actual work I've posted (not so much recent work) over the years has
>made up for it.
>
>The artist career thing for me never took off and academically the
>degree was as far as I got. Programming has become my focus and due to
>that I find little time for anything else.
>
>With that in mind I'm left making posts on the occasional inspired
>impulse. Hence the mobile-shot audio-clips and photographs from while
>I'm at (factory)work. Or screenshots of software I'm trying to develop.
>
>Seems like I'm producing less and less art. But does it have to be art
>to post here? I tend to focus on the "creativity" in the title to help
>me justify my posts here. I have a memory (real or imagined) of when I
>first subscribed of asked Marc if it was ok and he said 'for now'.
>
>The thing is I don't want to unsubscribe just because I'm not an artist
>any more, but the impulses to post *random*stuff* are likely to be
>around for a while... Unless people speak up to disuade me and give
>good reasons for why and etc....
>
>James.
>
>
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