HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9945 "AUGUST 1999 ANNOUNCEMENTS " ==================================================== Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:43:39 -0500 From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for August Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for August, 1999. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://wolf.its.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1 Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month discussion, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to guard against system crashes and other contingencies by first preparing your response in a word processing program, then copying it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. I should perhaps note that while the discussions for February, March, April, and May of 1998 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in the *Hardy Review*, I:1 (July 1998), the discussions of the three "In Tenebris" poems (June), "An August Midnight" (July), "Wessex Heights" (August), "The Souls of the Slain" and "Drummer Hodge" (September), "Reminiscences of a Dancing Man" (October), "The Darkling Thrush" (November), "The Going" (December), "Channel Firing" (January), "The Voice" (February), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "The Phantom Horsewoman" (April), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), "Under the Waterfall (June), and "A Singer Asleep" (July) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the August 1999 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:24:23 -0400 From: Robert Schweik Subject: God's Funeral Some who have not yet come across it may be interested in taking a look at A.N. Wilson's *God's Funeral*, John Murry (UK) and WW Norton (USA), 1999. It's reviewed by Peter Gay in TLS for July 23. The title, of course, is from Hardy's poem, and the opening chapter begins with a consideration of Hardy. Bob Robert Schweik Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus State University of New York College at Fredonia Fredonia, NY 14063 E-mail: schweik@ait.fredonia.edu ========== Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:56:19 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: The Hardy Review, Vol II (1999) Greetings All! Just a quick message to say that an edited sample of TTHA FORUM dialogues, selected by Forum Moderator Betty Cortus, are now being prepared for publication in the 1999 Hardy Review. If you have any objection to having your contributions published in this volume, or if you wish to retain copyright of your contributions (otherwise the copyright of TTHA), please contact the editor, Rosemarie Morgan, within seven days of the posted date of this message. Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:41:48 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Spamming of our HARDY-L Discussion Group List Dear HARDY-L FORUM subscribers. We are sorry that you got spammed by a message from "chance@hotmail.com" dated August 13, 1999 at 8:28 a.m. with the subject "You Can Make $50,000 or More". We have been in touch with our ISP regarding this spamming, and unfortunately there is, at this time at least, nothing much they can do about it. LIST SERV addresses are available freely on the web, and there is no way, once they get the address, that we can stop them from spamming us. We are lucky that there have been only three occasions in the last 2 years that we received this type of unwanted mail. Spamming is a major issue for ISP's, as are other unwanted types of messages, and there may be a way later, to set up a type of "fire wall" to stop them from reaching us as individual subscribers to HARDY-L, or for that matter any other lists. So please bear with us, and just trash such messages when you get them immediately (and empty the trash) so these types of messages do not take up valuable space on your system. Best regards, and like all other Lists, we are going through our usual quiet time right now, unless of course you can stimulate the activity with one or more of the fine topics for which our List is now so well respected. Betty Cortus, Moderator hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:33:12 -0500 From: Suzanne Keen Subject: Teaching Thomas Hardy? To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Colleagues: If any of you plan to teach the poetry or prose of Thomas Hardy during the upcoming school year, I hope that you will keep in mind the following opportunity for high school and college students. The Thomas Hardy Association maintains a website including a _Student Journal_. We invite submissions of essays on Thomas Hardy's writing. (We don't consider graduate student work for this part of the website.) We tend to favor essays that have strong arguments, direct engagement with the text(s), and clear prose. Essays devoted to synthesizing or summarizing already published work on Hardy excite us less. We would love to see your "A" papers. Click here for submission specifications: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/StudentP/student.htm Here is the link to the first "volume" of the Student Journal, containing an essay written by an American high school student: http://home.wlu.edu/~keens/Student_journal_Stephens.htm Yours truly, Suzanne Keen VP, Thomas Hardy Association Editor of the Student Journal (US) Associate Professor of English Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 skeen@wlu.edu ========== Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:58:31 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: Poem of the Month Outage Hardy list-mates-- If you've tried to access the Poem of the Month discussion anytime since last Thursday night, you've no doubt been greeted with an error message like this: NOT FOUND. The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. The explanation lies in the fact that the technical crew responsible for the NetForum system has been moving the entire system (including our Poem of the Month discussions) onto a new server. They thought the transfer would be a matter of a few hours, but it has turned into something fairly lengthy. They now tell me that they expect to have NetForum working again sometime tomorrow. I'll send a note to the list when things are back to normal. Sorry for the inconvenience. cheers, Bill Morgan Director, Hardy Poetry Page ========== From: "Christine Rooney" Subject: Re: Poem of the Month Outage Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:19:17 -0400 Thanks for the update. You know, I just tried the site a couple of minutes ago, and the error is exactly what I found. I thought that perhaps you were on vacation. I have been a silent reader but I have enjoyed the Hardy poems and comments very much. Still doing my artwork and using Hardy as a guide, Christine Rooney christine_rooney@msn.com ==========