<HTML>Slavery is in your mind.
Huang Po said, "Those who seek truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."
It is not a matter of censorship - but one of bandwidth.
I have enjoyed your work very much - your creativity and humor are appreciated among tricksters. I could do without the aborted fetuses - but whatever you've gotta say - just do it. I would like to see your pixels echo across cyberspace and gain some digital immortality in the process.
The problem is one of storage. Are you willing to pay for the right to post here? Someone must. I am not sure what Merlin pays to host crosses.net - BUT most web hosts have a limit (Like 50 Megs or so) and charge extra for exceeding the size limit. Graphics are space-gobblers, even when optimized.
This is free speech but not free of costs.
Instead of uploading all your graphics to crosses.net, why not just write the code and point to an URL where it is stored? Do you have any hard drive space on the Internet? There are BooCoo free sites like Fiberia 50Megs.com and Geocities.
Merlin is a good man. His misunderstandings are mainly unintentional.
He can kiss you and kill you in the same day - these are not threats just the poetry of madness. The harmony of chaos and stream-of-consciousness diluted by a unknown language.
Don't take it personal - he has killed me many times.
I have asked Merlin to create new forums so that the information is less cluttered. Perhaps a forum for posting mailart calls only, one for posting mailart news and discussion, and one for posting graphics of mailart and emailart? All Spam or off topic posts would them be deleted or moved to the appropriate forum. Would this be censorship?
The previous boards did not have this flexibility and these kind of options.
Why do you create? Is it for fun or profit? Are you driven to confrontation or interested in expanding your contacts?
This forum (crosses.net is at least the 3rd location of the board) has moved around a bit - but the community has shifted with the changes and remains largely intact. This is a community, Craig - It's not about Merlin or you - it's about us - Are you one one us?
Ease up a bit and I'll share the secret handshake with you :-)
Have some fun and share your light with us.
kiyotei
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