Chat About Paris Connection

"These artifices can still go much further and achieve the synthesis of the arts, of music, painting, and literature ... One should not be astonished if, with only the means they have now at their disposal, they set themselves to preparing this new art (vaster than the plain art of words) in which, like conductors of an orchestra of unbelievable scope they will have at their disposal the entire world, its noises and its appearances, the thought and language of man, song, dance, all the arts and all the artifices, still more mirages than Morgane could summon up on the hill of Gibel, with which to compose the visible and unfolded book of the future.... " Apollinaire, 1917

CHAT CANCELLED DUE TO DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK

The chat server has, unfortunately, been under a DoS attack, or a 'denial of service' attack by a teenager. See http://liveharmony.org for details. What this means is that the chat server has been inundated and is not available for use at the moment. Following the "kuro5hin: Undernet (and all of IRC) Faces Extinction" link from liveharmony.org, it seems that this is not exactly an isolated incident.

I looked around, on short notice, for alternatives but they all had lots of advertisement pop-up windows and generally were not appropriate for anything other than a sales pitch.

So, unfortunately, the chat is cancelled. Nor do I see any point in rescheduling it if the server is being attacked as often as it is. This is a pity. What can one say? Boys will be boys? Technology that can be so easily disabled by teenagers needs work? The Internet is still young. That is good. But most of the technology is also immature. The Internet was made to withstand a nuking but IRC can't withstand a few teenagers? This can also be said of Web sites, which also are subject to DoS. And they can't track the kids down, either.

In the meantime, I encourage you to subscribe to the Paris Connection email list. It looks like discussion of the project will have to proceed via email, not IRC. So discussion of the project will be a gradual thing that develops in a more considered fashion over time.

And I hope you enjoy Paris Connection. Also, check out the press the project has received in Libération, The New York Times and Courrier de Mantes.

Do not forget to browser at: Randy Adans article about Paris Connection .

Regards,
Jim Andrews