RE: [-empyre-] reception

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

http://plaintext.cc

what is the "cc" for in "plaintext.cc"? i gather it's a florian cramer
domain. plaintext plus a bit of binary interpretation. also, what does a <a
href="./"> result in (this is what the numbers in the boxes at top link to)?
i presume it results in a call to a perl script that generates the next page
(but could be wrong).

speaking of generating, the text we see involves a lot of "-->" symbols,
which is sometimes associated with language generation rules in formal
grammars. Sometimes it seems like what we are looking at are the rules used
to generate the page, or the next page, or whatever.

sometimes it seems that the content refers to individuals on email lists (nn
for instance) which suggests that the content is partly a result of looking
at an index of email messages and using codes for the names of the writers.
and sometimes the content seems to draw on the content of the email posts
themselves.

the boxes could represent a thread, perhaps.

dunno, but it's undoubtedly very coherent if one knows what is being coded
and how it is coded. is it a generative text piece?

"digital writing in its pure sense"--could you expand on that, please,
Friedrich?

ja