5.0301 As: Mystery E-Conference; Linguists Publ. (2/133)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 3 Sep 1991 21:25:46 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0301. Tuesday, 3 Sep 1991.
Announcements: Mystery E-Conference; Mac Publication for Linguists
(1) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1991 20:08 EDT (78 lines)
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: New E-Conference for Mystery Literature
(2) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 15:31:46 CDT (55 lines)
From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth)
Subject: New Macintosh publication for linguists
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1991 20:08 EDT
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: New E-Conference for Mystery Literature
DOROTHYL@KENTVM
DOROTHYL@KENTVM.KENT.EDU
DOROTHYL is a discussion and idea list for lovers of the mystery
genre. It was concocted by a group of women librarians at a July
1991 Washington, D.C. meeting of the Association of Research
Libraries and named in in honor of one of the great women mystery
writers of the century. Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey were
strong contenders, but Dorothy L. Sayers had a LISTSERV-blessed
middle initial. Although there was serious discussion about
limiting DOROTHY to women particpants and it would be entertaining
to identify impostors (no doubt men would sneak on with anonymous
ID@node, to join in DOROTHY's energizing discussion), the
organizers opted for the widest possible number of serious
participants.
Tenets of DOROTHYL:
-Everyone is welcome.
-Those who wish to adopt the name of a mystery character, may use
that name in postings.
-The participants WILL have fun.
Some suitable subjects for posting are:
-Announcements of forthcoming books and previews.
-Reviews, criticisms, comments, and appreciations of mysteries
(books, plays, films).
-Great mystery bookshops.
-Awards. It can take a long time to learn which are the annual
prizewinners. DOROTHYL may consider posting these as files.
-Mysterious events. Mystery travels, mystery walks in cities,
mysteries of life.
-Ideas for happenings, perhaps an evening of mystery readings at
ALA or ARL or MLA?
-An electronic mystery, with clues (apples, perhaps red ones of
the Macintosh variety?), villains (the mailer-Daemon?), red
herrings (byte-marks?), heroines, detectives -- the potential is
as unlimited as the world of networking.
At the outset, the list will be un-moderated (self-monitored).
Everyone who joins ought to consider contacting her (his) favorite
mystery author and inviting her (him) to join this list. Since
many mystery writers are academics, this could be a very fruitful
and exciting chase.
Yours for networked thrills, the Owners
Harriet Vane (HarrietV@e-math.ams.com)
Kinky X.Y.Z Friedman (Kinky@e-math.ams.com)
Subscription Instructions:
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addressed to Listserv@kentvm
If you send e-mail leave the subject line blank.
The text of the message must be:
Sub DOROTHYL Yourfirstname Yourlastname
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Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message must be:
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 15:31:46 CDT
From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth)
Subject: New Macintosh publication for linguists
HUMANIST readers may be interested in a new publication for
Macintosh users called Notes on Apple Macintosh, or NOAM for
short (no connection whatsoever with that other Noam). NOAM is
intended for field linguists of SIL (Summer Institute of
Linguistics), but should be of considerable use to anyone using a
Mac to do linguistic and anthropological work. NOAM will be
particularly focused on techniques for management and
analysis of multilingual data.
NOAM is edited by Randy Valentine, whose stated goal is "to
present you with ideas and instruction that will help you to do a
better job in your anthropology, linguistics, education and
translation work." Randy is a top-notch linguist and teacher, as
well as the author of some of the most creative and useful
Hypercard stacks I have ever seen. Randy's special area of
interest is Native North American cultures.
The first issue of NOAM just appeared this summer. In format it
is 5.5" by 8.5", 54 pages long, and profusely illustrated. The
content includes the following:
an overview of system 7.0;
formatting text for syntax and discourse study using
Hypercard and Word;
Macintosh news;
software squibs.
NOAM is published quarterly. The subscription price for one year
is U.S. $14.00. For overseas airmail delivery, add U.S. $12.00
per year. You may obtain a trial copy of the first issue for
$3.00. Send subscription requests and trial copy requests to:
NOAM
Box 248
Waxhaw, NC 28173
U.S.A.
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Evan Antworth
Academic Computing Department
Summer Institute of Linguistics
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
U.S.A.
Internet: evan@txsil.sil.org <------- new address as of May 1991
UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan
phone: 214/709-2418
fax: 214/709-3387