News Bulletin

Gene Alt (GeneAlt@aol.com)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 16:45:12 -0500 (EST)

To: Karl Koening

>Gene, here is the routine if you are a subscriber. Sign on and get Aol's
>General Menu/select aol interests bar/select photography/select photography
>forum/select photography message board/select "list topics"/ select Fine
>Art or Alternative Process by scrolling through. Whew. There may be a
>better way. Probably is. I am a babe in the computer woods. Karl

This is Gene Alt reporting from downtown AOL. Glittering spam lights the night
sky. To my north, millions of cyberlovers are tenderly exchanging digital pics
on the Chat Boards. To my south, lies the Kodak Big Yellow Forum. As I enter
the forum I find various menu buttons to push. None lead to my quest for the
elusive Fine Art Photography or Alternative Photography Boards. I enter
Daguerres Chat Room. One chatter asks who is Daguerre? I responded that I have
not seen Dag as of late. The other chatter, a medium format wedding
photographer, has a large format ego. He is talking about how much money he
makes. I intuitively feel that the way to the Alternative Board is not through
this room. I make my way out, congratulating the wedding photographer on the
size of his IRS quarterly installment. I'm afraid that I have come no closer
to finding the key to entering the two lost Kodak Boards. Another day. Another
quest.

Good night Chet.
Good night Karl.

As one wing of this
>> potentially large group is a subset of new pictorialists...many of
>> whom are alt processors. Many are aol members and Kodak has a Fine Art
>> board and an Alternative process board.,
>>