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Topic 330 The Portrait Project (Request)
peg:visionary cyberculture zone 3:06 PM Mar 10, 1994
Facilitator Note:
This is an interesting net-game you may like to participate in.
Write your response under this topic - BUT ALSO...
please CC your message to <rgardner@charon.mit.edu>
That way we can all share in the project and the author can
benefit via the interaction too.
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Subject: The Portrait Project
From:<rgardner@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: irvc-l@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
"stuff available list" available on request - just ask for it!
PORTRAITS
Your phone rings. You say hello. A voice on the other end
begins to speak. It is not uncommon to create a mental picture
of that person. From the voice (and sometimes the name) one
gets clues about sex, age, nationality, ethnic origin,
original language, race, and so on.
On the net, however, one is reduced to the person's name and
their command of English. And at times neither of these provide
clues about the person. From time to time the person might use
pronouns, or a statement about their husband or wife, that give
you a gender clue. There are times when I have discovered that a
correspondent had the opposite sex of the person in my mind.
So here's the deal: you can begin this project by writing a
description of what you think I look like. Send that to me as
an email message, or leave it on the following ftp site:
ftp 141.214.4.135
anonymous [login as...]
user-id [your Internet address for password]
cd docs/rlg/portrait [directory for portraits]
dir [list portraits already here]
put rgardner.abc [your initials or other id]
get rgardner.xyz |more [display text of portrait]
get portrait.all [all portraits to date]
quit [leave ftp site]
And, of course, there are no limits to what you can describe.
Maybe you think rgardner@charon.mit.edu is a specialized
version of "Eliza", or an honest-to-god alien!
You can always reach me at:
rgardner@charon.mit.edu
And, if you are always paranoid about people,
use the finger command on me, like so:
finger rgardner@charon.mit.edu
If that isn't enough, let me know
and I'll send you a copy of my resume.
Please copy and distribute this idea.
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