Dear Julia - and all the others on the list,
that is perfectly alright with me. I think we shouldn't use a website name
that is already in use, if we want to change the name. I think it would be
a good idea for me to have my name on both lists.
Yours Barbara
At 11:40 28.01.02 -0000, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>(please forgive the lengthy message)
>
>Thanks to Steve for putting forward his suggestions for renaming
>the Ballads List.  I was one of the people he originally emailed
>about his concerns and, as Listowner of Ballads, it was my hope
>that we might be able to reform (re-form) the Ballad List rather than
>start yet another list.
>
>Thanks to all who have responded to his suggestions too.  Many of
>the points raised are sensible ones.  I personally agree with the
>proposed new name Traditional Song Research.  I think JISCMail
>who administer the List would want the syntax Traditional-Song-
>Research but otherwise it's fine from their angle.  I too feel that
>'Tradsong' is a little too close to the Traditional Song Forum's
>website name, but of course you could set up this shorthand in
>your email address book to take you to the full Traditional-Song-
>Research List address.
>
>I don't think we need to worry too much about definitions here.  As
>another contributor has said, it's pretty much a de facto thing.
>What gets discussed is the result of what subscribers post and
>respond to.  I think it's in everyone's interests for the membership
>of the list to be multidisciplinary, and I personally would welcome
>those in allied fields to be members.  I'm sure that there will always
>be a strong core of subscribers in ballad/folksong research.  It of
>course depends on your interests and uses of the list but it's easy
>to delete messages or unsubscribe if you feel strongly.
>Meanwhile, I would just point out that the subtitle of the list (which
>is so long that it never gets completed on my screen) is already:
>'News and discussions relevant to the study of
>popular/folk/traditional ballads - international and multilingual'.
>That's already broader and along the lines that Steve was
>proposing.
>
>I am very happy to do the following:
>
>1) Set up a Traditional-Song-Research List and automatically
>transfer all members of the Ballad List to it.  If you want to
>unsubscribe, just go to the JISCMAil website and find the List
>Homepage from which you can modify or cancel your membership
>(please do this when you change your email address too!):
>
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
>
>2) Write a Welcome Message (there actually isn't one at the
>moment apart from the administrative one from JISCMail) which
>aims to reflect in broad terms what we're about.
>
>3) Check with JISCMail about putting some kind of message where
>the Ballads list was to point to the newly named list.
>
>I think it's down to all of us subscribers to a) encourage others to
>join the list, b) maintain a high standard of discussion, c) alert
>those with links to the current list/website that the name has (when
>it has) changed.
>
>The majority opinion, as expressed, seems to be in favour of this.  I
>won't go ahead with it until **Monday, 4 February 2002**, so if
>there are compelling reasons NOT to do this, speak now or forever
>hold your peace!
>
>Julia (Bishop)
>
>
>Julia C. Bishop (Dr)
>National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
>University of Sheffield
>Sheffield  S10 2TN
>U.K.
>
>Tel: (Direct Line) 0114 222 6295
>(NATCECT Office) 0114 222 6296
>EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
>
>
Barbara Boock, Bibliothekarin
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