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Comment by Marcela Peral on February 7, 2012 at 10:20pm

Hi Ruud!

I´m writing my tesis on collaborative work and networks... i´m including this site in it, so i´d like to know something about the origins of IUOMA and how it comes to this platform, I found a bit info on New members group... Is there another link to read more?

Comment by Ruud Janssen on February 3, 2012 at 6:04pm

I had to move to a bigger place years ago to inlude an archive as part of my house...

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 16, 2011 at 5:35pm

you begin with nothing, and after a few years you end up with an archive....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 7, 2011 at 2:09pm

Amazing, Ruud, truly amazing!

My son told me recently that if you'd invested €1000 in one of Fortis Bank's investment accounts in 2000 it's only worth €350 today, BUT if you'd bought €1000 of Duvel beer, kept the bottles and took them back today and collected the statiegeld (?) you'd now get almost €400.

Which leads me to wonder, how much you've spent on posting 100,000 + items over the last 30-odd years, and if you'd invested that money in something (other than Fortis and/or Duvel) how much it would be worth today? A lot, I would think.

Approximately -- well, to the nearest 10,000! -- how many of the 90,000 pieces that you have received have you kept, and what do you do with them (if anything) in terms of storage, cataloging, etc?

All of a sudden the implications of a long-term future in Mail Art are overwhelming.

A last point which it would be impossible to quantify, but I raise it anyway: how many pieces of Mail Art, in total, from all over the world, have you been responsible for since you started all of this up in the 80's? Millions? Tens of millions, Hundreds of millions? The UPU should give you a medal. Or two. or three. Or..

Thanks and regards, Val

 

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:52am

Reseeing the chart, I guess the amounts I mentioned are even higher. I just sent out that much it just guessing.....

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:51am

From 1991 till 1998 I even tried to count all outgoing mail-art. It was my busiest period. You can see how many pieces went out every month and they are counted each month as a total.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:50am

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:43am

Dear Val

Approxilmately*, how many peices of Mail Art have you:

i) send? 100.000 (since 1980)

ii) received? 90.000 (more in the early years than the last years with computers)

Regards, Ruud

* to the nearest, well, ten thousand??

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 13, 2011 at 7:36pm

Dear Ruud,

Approxilmately*, how many peices of Mail Art have you:

i) send?

ii) received?

Regards, val

* to the nearest, well, ten thousand??

Comment by Ruud Janssen on November 11, 2011 at 7:18pm

sure : r.janssen@iuoma.org

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