originally written by Ruud Janssen on July 1996
WWW-version July 1997
When Crackerjack Kid (Chuck Welch) from USA asked me for some more copies of older TAM-Bulletins for his archive, I decided to undertake an even larger task. I started with going through my own archive to select all the information about the TAM- Bulletins that I could find and make a complete book out of it. This work started beginning 1995, but because of the mail- interview project things got postponed again. Now in the Summer-vacation of 1996 I finally succeded in finishing the publication.
In the last year no new TAM-Bulletin was published. Already others have started simular publications, and there is no need to do things double. The TAM-Bulletin has appeared in many forms, and with the history of over 12 years it sure is a well- known name. Because of the limited edition most TAM-Bulletins are published, not many have seen the complete development of the newsmagazine. This book hopefully will change that.
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The main reason for still making copies of mail-art invitations is to make the network accessible for everyone. Whoever wants so sent out creative mail must be stimulated. Everybody who wants to can be a mail-artists.
If you yourself want to experiment , just let me know. Also details about settings and phone-numbers are available for those of you who are interested. The TAM-bulletins are now accessible 24 hours a day! (you only have to make an appointment with my computer...!). For making the acces to the bulletin possible for other computerusers I sometimes upload a TAM-Bulletin to another BBS, so there it might be accesible too. The list of BBS's changes so rapidly that it is no use to mention which BBS's have the current issue of the TAM-Bulletin. Some names of BBS's in Tilburg and neighborhoud that have received the bulletin are : HCC-Tilburg-1 , MARCOM-BBS, Kangeroo-BBS, The ATTIC, INFOBOARD, and many more....
This computerized version of the TAM-Bulletin is also being printed out. In this way I still can inform people who don't have acces to a computer. Also this communication-way is sometimes still cheaper then the phone-costs for datacommunication. I have to say that this electronic form still in not that effective in the network although the INTERNET is changing that rapidly.
So the new TAM-bulletin is something completely different. I make every TAM-bulletin as an original , and send it to someone in the mail-art network. The bulletin mostly contains also some mail-art projects , and the request is to pass on the TAM-bulletin after being finished with it. Also mail-artists can add information in the bulletin , and add anything else to it. It has become an "add and pass on" booklet , and every bulletin sooner or later will end up in some archive or a dumpjard.
At the moment the different forms of the TAM-bulletin exsist beside each other. Sometimes I send the ADD TO-version. Sometimes I print-out the computer-version, just how I feel like doing it at a certain moment.
At the moment (July 1997) I still use this e-mail address although I have also a local access-point from the College where I work. All info's I have on my computer I can now send into the electronic network. I did experiment with some digital versions of the TAM-Bulletin, but to keep the info updated, and because there were already many other electronic zines appearing, I decided that the time for real experiments isn't there for me yet.
For those of you who are interested I put one of the digital TAM-BULLETIN's online for you. Just click: TAM BULLETIN DIGITAL EXAMPLE
adresses:
Ruud Janssen - TAM
P.O.Box 1055
4801 BB Breda
Netherlands
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updated version: 4-7-1997
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