HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2044 7/02/02 "JULY 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ============================================================ Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:22:19 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: TTHA Poem9s- of the Month forJuly Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 21:46:44 -0500 To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for July Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "Her Reproach" and "Her Confession" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for July 2002. This month's discussion will be the fourth in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about two of Hardy's earliest works (the poems date from 1866-7) in the sonnet form. 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://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. 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. At the present time, this month's discussion and those for August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September (Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning"), April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), and June ("She, to Him I-IV") are posted at the site and open for contributions. I expect soon to have reconstructed the earlier discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") and when I have completed the work on them I will post them as well. All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers. The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above). Welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for July 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:20:01 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: The Forum Update Dear Members, Some of you may have already observed that our experimental attempt to filter out spam, and other unwelcome messages from coming to the list is no longer in effect. While some of you had positive reactions about having the list moderated in this fashion, even though it meant some messages might be slightly delayed in transmission, others felt that the loss of spontaneity, as well as a number of technical drawbacks, were greater than the benefits this system offered. On balance, the arguments of the nays outweighed the ayes, and we have now reverted to the old Forum as you have always known it--messages come to you immediately after sent, and are totally unreviewed be me, or by anyone else. Now that we are back to our old system a certain amount of intrusive mail is bound to plague us. Let me reiterate that no mail containing attachments should be sent to the Forum. All such mail coming to the list is illegitimate and should be deleted without opening. Alas, that the times we live in makes such decisions difficult. As Director of the Forum my wish only is to further the love of Thomas Hardy Studies, and to make known to those attuned to him, the literary wealth he has bequeathed to us. Please bear with us during these difficult times for our List. Betty ========== From: "Alan Shelston" Subject: Re: The Forum Update Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:54:29 +0100 Dear betty, Thanks for this - you certainly achieve your major objective. Alan Shelston ========== Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:40:51 -0600 Subject: spam, etc. From: Joan Sheski Many thanks to you, Betty, for a valiant attempt to protect our computers and sensibilities as well. Especially in view of the Hardy Society's internet resource problems, thank you, THANK YOU to everyone involved in the Association site's excellence. I'm truly isolated out here in the intellectual (and physical) desert of Gallup, New Mexico without the chance to travel to Dorchester, so access to the site is particularly important to me - it is like the rain we are finally receiving today! Spam is easily identified and trashed as a quite minor inconvenience - I don't want your time and thought, Betty, to be taken up by such a housekeeping chore. Grateful for all of you, Joan Sheski ========== Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:56:48 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Ignore Solicitation Dear Members, Please disregard a message from DR MIKE OBIKU of Nigeria, containing a business offer. This is a well documented SCAM and, by no means, should you respond to it. Apologies for yet another unwelcome intrusion on our list. Betty ========== Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:51:14 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: "Temporarily Out of Order" Apologies to TTHA members for the "Temporarily Out of Order" situation on *MEMBERS' RESEARCH & RESOURCES* page. All is now back to normal and more splendiferous than ever with the updated *Checklist* flying high. Thanks to all for their patience and understanding. With every good wish, Rosemarie ========== Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:44:25 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: VIRUS-Beware : Sorry HARDY-L subscribers. If you got an e-mail from HARDY-L or from hardycor with the Subject: line as" Verdana bold"and with an Attachment, PLEASE UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES OPEN THE ATTACHMENT, as it does contain the virus WORM_KLEZ.H Also we suggest you do not even open the e-mail itself. Just trash everything before it does any damage. The problem seems to be getting more serious. We will do all we can to stop it but even our home firewall seems to have let this one through. Somehow they are getting more clever. John and Betty Cortus. ==========