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Re: [OM] A Question about Oly Gallery submissions

Subject: Re: [OM] A Question about Oly Gallery submissions
From: Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:00:05 -0600
Go ahead and put his stuff up.  If Elvis doesn't want us to know he is an OM 
user, OK, but we already know that he is still around. <g>

Gary

Garth Wood wrote:

> Well, I have a problem, and I'd like the List members to weigh in with their 
> thoughts.
>
> I've just received a submission set from a gentleman who doesn't want his 
> name used, but wants to publish his images under a pseudonym.  (I assume that 
> this means that he doesn't want any indication of where he's from, either.)  
> The submissions are generally of a good quality (though the scans will need a 
> lot of tweaking to clean them up), and display a good eye and good judgment, 
> at least in my opinion.  Unusually, though, he has included a 
> readily-identifiable photo of himself, even though he requests pseudonymity 
> otherwise.
>
> Personally, my initial reaction was that I wasn't interested in 
> pseudonymous/anonymous submissions -- I consider the Gallery one more way of 
> emphasizing a sense of community amongst Oly users in general (and List 
> members in particular), and I think it's difficult to cater to that community 
> sense with a pseudonymous submission set.  Of course, the final decision is 
> mine to make (it's my time, my software, my server and my bandwidth that gets 
> expended to put up anyone's submissions), but to date I've never refused a 
> submission or substantially altered one (at least in my opinion).  I always 
> thought that editing like that, or refusing to publish, was an unwarranted 
> expression of my own aesthetic judgment.  However, in this case, it's *not* 
> my aesthetic judgment which is being brought into play here.
>
> I understand and respect this gent's requirement for privacy in an online 
> world where too frequently we can be tracked and profiled without our 
> knowledge or consent.  Yet I'm still reluctant to use these submissions -- if 
> you want privacy, why submit?
>
> Appreciate any discussion or guidance from other List members.  This one's a 
> bit of a poser for me.
>
> Garth
>
>
> "A bad day doing photography is better
>   than a good day doing just about
>   anything else."
>
> The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
>
>     http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
>
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