I would like to announce that the Versification special interest
mailing  list, which has been in limbo for the past three years
while I looked for a  suitable host, is now online and open for
business at the University of  Washington.  In conformity with
university rules, the list owner is Prof.  Joseph Tate of the
English Department, but both he and I will will share
responsibility for supervising the list.  At the end of this post, I
have  included the official listproc server message on the
procedures for  subscribing, unsubscribing and setting various
subscription parameters.

The Versification list is an unmoderated forum for the
discussion of all  issues relating to literary prosody in the
world's major literatures.  Prof.  Tate and I invite those
interested in this vital and growing field to join us.

The full archives of the old Versification mailing list will soon be
available on the Versification web page, which is also migrating
to the  University of Washington after a major facelift.  These
archives are an  invaluable resource on virtually all the major
controversies of literary  prosody as argued by the world's key
scholars and researchers.


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Welcome to Versification, an unmoderated mailing list for
discussions
about all aspects of literary prosody.

Please save this message for future reference. If you
encounter  problems, contact the list owner, Joseph Tate
<versification- [log in to unmask]>.


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with no subject heading, and only the subscribe or unsubscribe
command in the body of the message.  For example, send the
following  command to [log in to unmask]:
    subscribe versification <your name>
where <your name> is your name. As always, do not include
the < >  symbols.  For example, if Bob Smith were to
subscribe, he would send  email to [log in to unmask]
with the following command in the  message body:
    subscribe Versification Bob Smith
If this procedure does not work, contact the list owner and ask
to be
subscribed. To send a message to the list owner, send email
to:
    [log in to unmask]


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1. Misspelling "subscribe". Be sure you've spelled it correctly.
You are
sending the message to a computer program that does not
tolerate  errors.
2. An error in the list name. It must match the recorded name.
3. Failing
to include "your name."


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-If you are receiving copies of your own postings and would
like to stop
receiving them, you can set your mail options by sending the
following
command to [log in to unmask]:
    set versification mail noack
-If you want to receive your messages in MIME digest form
rather than  as individual messages, you can send the
following command to
[log in to unmask]:
    set versification mail digest
-If your mail program does not support the MIME format, you
can  receive
digests in a single block of plain text with this command:
    set versification mail digest-nomime


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In order to unsubscribe from the Versification mailing list, send
an email
to the ListProc server ([log in to unmask]) containing
the
following command in the body of the message:
    unsubscribe versification
You should receive by email a confirmation that you've been
removed  from the list. If you receive an error message and
need help resolving  the problem, you should contact the list
owner.

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Steven J. Willett
Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Dept. of International Culture, Faculty of Cultural Policy
1794-1 Noguchi
Hamamatsu City, Japan 430-8533
Tel/Autofax: (53) 457-6142
Japan email: [log in to unmask]
US email: [log in to unmask]