Mailinglistan Nettime (för att inte säga mailinglistor i allmänhet) hade kanske sin höjdpunkt 1999.

Nettime-arkivet för april 1999 bjuder på ett stort antal inlägg, av rubrikerna att döma väldigt dominerat av heta diskussioner rörande Natos pågående bombningar av rest-Jugoslavien. Luther Blissett/Wu Ming skrev bland annat:

We consider the NATO offensive in the Balkans as useless, absurd, criminal and even apocalyptic. Useless, nay, counterproductive: it turned Slobodan Milosevic and his cut-throats into unconvincing heroes and self-styled opponents of the New World Order, leaving Serbian people with no choice but siding with their dictator.

Bland övriga tidstypiska ämnen på Nettime i april 1999 märks cyberfeminism. I ett inlägg titulerat “Next Cyberfeminist International report står bland annat att läsa ett referat av en diskussion som förts under den obetalbara rubriken “The Cyberflaneuse - Create or Kill?”

Maren Hartmann considered whether the invention of a “Cyberflaneuse” as a theoretical metaphor for a desirable rapport and treatment with the new media-world would be a worthwhile undertaking. /…/
An answer was not found, but sceptical voices questioned the underlying presupposition of the cyberspace as a sort of urban space. /…/
The cyberflaneur is a recent re-invention of THE cultural figure of modernity, the flaneur, as Walter Benjamin developped especially in his unfinished ‘Arcades Project’.This flaneur can be thought of as an idealized embodiment of how to approach not only the city, but modernity itself.
Driven by his gaze, but with no engagement to what he has seen, the flaneurnever becomes part of the mass. This detachment and distance to the world pays: it opens up the ability to reflect. The idea of a ‘cyberflaneur’ as proposed by William Mitchell(as a ‘netflaneur’) or by Sandy Stone aims towards a character who is a stroller of virtual spaces, i.e. an expression of supposed freedom and being-in-control amidst chaos. /…/
A female historical model for a ‘cyberflaneuse’ seems to be very limited. So: how to create a new model of a cyberflaneuse to work out the cultural space of cyberspace for women?