Keep the Works by all means. It is one of the most civilised sites I know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Problems - Opportunities


> Yeh John,
> I like THE WORKS as it works! But I have real sympathy for those for whom
it
> doesn't work! I like it's open way of doing things, the variety of posts
and
> poems and comments, and the people whose posts make it that way.
> Although I have an interest in Haiku (and related forms) I don't know (and
I
> mean I don't know) how such a change would change so many other things as
> well. I sense that poetry from the Orient, like music from the Orient, is
so
> different to poetry with a local (I mean Western) tradition and history.
So
> the As-Yet-Unnamed site may be focused somewhere that's elsewhere and may
> start wandering off in another direction. But I don't know enough to know.
> Bob
>
>
> >From: John Carley <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Problems - Opportunities
> >Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:04:32 -0000
> >
> >Please keep the comments coming folks. There appears to be a consensus
> >emerging for The Works to stay up an running. That would not be a problem
> >in any way shape or form. But let's hear from as many as possible.
> >
> >Thanks, John
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: 25 November 2001 00:50
> >Subject: Re: Problems - Opportunities
> >
> >
> >I agree with James too. Sally
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: James Bell
> >Sent: 24 November 2001 15:05
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Problems - Opportunities
> >
> >Hi John,
> >
> >I'd like to see both in existence. The agenda for me would be to join
both
> >then leave the one that I felt the shoe didn't fit. As it is I love the
> >company on The Works. Sorry this insn't more conclusive.
> >
> >bw
> >James
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: John Carley <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Problems - Opportunities
> > >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:45:19 -0000
> > >
> > >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
> >
> >
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