{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1495", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 1495, "subject": "urth and whorl lists are moving next week", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2001-12-07T15:38:17+00:00", "last": "2001-12-07T17:38:53+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar", "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com" }, "date": "2001-12-07T15:38:17+00:00", "subject": "urth and whorl lists are moving next week", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "...but I don't have the details yet. Everything should be\npretty much the same, except with a different email address\nfor contributions, and slightly different commands for\nsubscribing and unsubscribing. \n\nAs long as we're moving: do we still need two separate\nlists, or would it make more sense just to have one? I've\nasked before and never done anything about it. This\ntime... well, we'll see. We have perhaps a few days left to\ndecide.\n\nI should be able to move your subscriptions over to the new\nlists, so you won't have to resubscribe. Let me know if,\nfor some reason, you'd rather not subscribe to the new\nlists.\n\n- ranjit" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com" }, "date": "2001-12-07T16:19:17+00:00", "subject": "RE: (whorl) urth and whorl lists are moving next week", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "As long as we're moving: do we still need two separate\nlists, or would it make more sense just to have one? " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I don't think the existing division makes a great deal of\nsense anymore. (I never entirely understood the point of\nit anyway.) If you're paying for this, I recommend not\npaying for two lists.\n\nIf you think two lists is worthwhile, consider alternate\ndivisions. Some possibilities that suggest themselves:\n\n1) One for the \"Lupiverse\" of the FOO SUN books and one \n for \"other\" Lupine materials.\n\n 1a) A modification of the above: one for the \"American\" \n stuff (like PEACE, CASTLEVIEW, PANDORA, various \n shorts) that some folks seem allergic to, and one \n for his more far-flung stuff.\n\n2) One for discussing \"new\" work and one for \"outstanding \n repertoire\" - a way of limiting spoiler damage for \n those who don't pre-order everything Lupine months in\n advance. An arbitrary line would have to be drawn; for\n example, \"when a text has been in print in book form \n for six months, it moves to the 'older stuff' list.\"\n\n3) One for goggle-eyed praise of everything Wolfe writes and\n one for whining about how Wolfe isn't as good as he used\n to be. [Surely there's _some_ middle ground... 8*)]" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "2001-12-07T16:37:49+00:00", "subject": "RE: (whorl) urth and whorl lists are moving next week", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\n2) One for discussing \"new\" work and one for \"outstanding \n repertoire\" - a way of limiting spoiler damage for \n those who don't pre-order everything Lupine months in\n advance. An arbitrary line would have to be drawn; for\n example, \"when a text has been in print in book form \n for six months, it moves to the 'older stuff' list.\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'd vote for just one list, but if you're going to divide the list this\nway, I think the most natural cut-off point would be \"when it's available\nin paperback.\"\n\n-Rostrum, a Wolfe fan of humble means" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com" }, "date": "2001-12-07T17:38:53+00:00", "subject": "RE: (whorl) urth and whorl lists are moving next week", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I'd vote for just one list, but if you're going to divide the list this\nway, I think the most natural cut-off point would be \"when it's available\nin paperback.\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, that becomes pretty arbitrary anyway. Do trade (large-size) \npaperbacks count? And what about short stories? I specified \"book form\"\nbecause some of us don't subscribe to all the magazines GW's stories\nappear in, but that's a partial help. Also, do we have any non-US \nsubscribers? Etc., etc.\n\n--Dan'l" } ] } ] }