Hi Folks, sorry I haven't been too present recently. I've been a bit under
the weather, and under the cosh with a very complex treatise on Japanese
verse to assemble.

It is clear that various people are getting repeated errors and non
delivered mail at the moment. It seems in fact that only those persons
resident in Britain are getting 100% access. Whether this is down the The
Rutherford Laboratory's server (which JISC uses) I don't know: it's
probably all part of a wholy laudable effort to keep 'Johnny Foreigner'
guessing!

Anyway, I've been thinking about moving servers. Then, just recently, The
World Haiku Club approached me and asked me to facilitate an 'all forms'
poetry mailgroup on their behalf. This initiative is part of a very
sensible attempt to bridge the rather puzzling gulf between interest in
Occidental and Oriental verse writing in the English language.

I have accepted. Part of the deal is that non-oriental verse gets its own
dedicated sections in World Haiku Review, an ezine of the highest quality.

I can't really take on The Works and The As-yet-unnamed. But there again
The Works isn't exactly full of flamers and wasters, for an open-access
list we've done pretty well.

Several courses of action suggest themselves to me but the two poles tend
to be

A/ close The Works down and decamp on to The As-yet-unnamed when it becomes
available

B/ Leave The Works up and pass the 'management' keys to a couple of active
members - so that if ever it becomes unfortunatley necessary to disbarr a
correspondant, or whatever, it can be done.

I'd be grateful for any thoughts on this. I would expect The As-yet-unnamed
to be up and running by Xmas.

And now... a zip-style tanka. Every good wish, John

--
                            crawling   through a sea of rubble
           frightened soldiers   curse the moon
                                              Copernicus
                            reverses   the telescope