Please note especially numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

>Date:         Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:32:27 -0400
>From: "L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c)"
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>Subject:      Usage guidelines for BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS
>To: Dan Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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>X-LSV-ListID: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS
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>Welcome to Bullamanka-Pinheads
>
>The purpose of Bullamanka-Pinheads is to provide a forum of communication
>between practitioners, craftspersons, and interested others, in the field of
>historic preservation of the built environment to do the following:
>
>1) Fully explore and develop relationships. A place where creative, garrulous
>individuals can feel free to spit, belch, and go ducky muck without denting
>nobler sensibilities. Not promoting foul language; promoting the freedom to
>express stupid ideas awkwardly. If you do not like Gab & Eti Orgrease then you
>do not want to be here.
>
>2) Provide a support network, to build a sense of community, to populate a
>virtual community of preservation with heroes, children, tricksters, Gods,
>demons, wise old men, earth mothers, and a proficiency of smaller animals.
>
>3) To aid those working in isolated areas, or confining career positions, to
>feel in-touch, to be in the loop. Provide spirited sustenance to those who are
>starved for life on a level beyond yes/no transactions. Individuals who, after
>a long day, are looking for a release from the tensions of their lives and
>prefer discourse, however absurd or inane, to television.
>
>4) To provide a forum where craftspeople can feel comfortable to congregate
>and meet with others sympathetic to the trades. Seeing the world through
>action and mass, not written sentences, we need to support each other to
>create a voice on the I-way.
>
>5) To ask WHY?
>
>6) A place where the serious minded person can get practical answers, based on
>real experience: playing with the messy parts of preservation -- emotions,
>strategy, facing the developers, communicating, managing the project,
>wallowing in the absurd, laughing.
>
>7) To share strategy on preservation of the built environment, which is an
>important ecology within the global environment. In respect of a sustainable
>planet Bullamanka-Pinheads is a space to explore these issues.
>
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>creative. Misspellings and typos are encouraged. If you forget why you are
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>message. Most of all LAUGH!
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