From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
> First, the comment is that IRC problems cut both ways. IRCs require
> trips to the PO here in the US also, and aren't always and everywhere
> available. Same other problems there too. As a result, I, slothful as I
am,
> have never sent much material overseas by mail.
I took this as given -- in arithmetic terms it's commutative (have I got
this right?) -- A=B equals B=A.
Not true in every math, admittedly.
<g>
> The query has to do with what you publishing types think of having
> work submitted via links to webpages, as opposed to email or snailmail
> of whatever variety. If a MS is set up on a webpage, and the potential
> contributor sent a link to it, you could certainly get enough sense of the
> nature of the MS to determine whether or not to consider it. And--think
> of it!--no email clogging your inbox, let alone paper piling up on the
> floor by your desk, beneath your transom, etc.
This is, I think, yet ANOTHER bloody issue (and one that I'm acutely aware
of).
What constitutes previous-publication? Used to be simple, but now ...
How about if you post a poem to a discussion-list? Even BEFORE you get to
the question of the public availability and/or copyright status of web
pages, blogs, whatever ...
WHY I'm aware of this is that the text of PWN is available on he Web at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
Cut me own throat -- why pay me £5 for what you can see free?
> Come on, it's 2003, and we're still submitting and receiving MSS by
> pony express.
There's a practical case for it, otherwise this entire dicussion, generated
initially from Gabe's call for submissions to Spoon River, wouldn't be
taking place.
Robin
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