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From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Guidelines for editors
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> And so does 8, except that like books and
> magazines the work published in 8 is 'out of print'. (Don't usually send
> a
> poem or whatever to another magazine because the first one it appeared in
> is no longer available.)
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> [8 was the case of "having had it accepted for inclusion on an established
> poetry web site which has been taken off line and is no longer available
> to
> anyone via the internet."]
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> I think there's a significant difference -- virtually all out of print
> books,
> and many journals, are still available fairly easily via used book vendors
> and
> public and academic libraries. But when a web site is taken off line,
> everything disappears.
Actually, Jon, you might find at least some parts of decommissioned websites
at
http://www.archive.org/
--check out the WayBackMachine.
~ Dan Zimmerman
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> The few times editors have tried to make helpful revisions to my own work,
> they have unerringly identified whatever was particularly good about it
> and
> suggested that I leave it out.
>
> I have the variorum edition of Yeats, and it seems to me that most his
> revisions were bad ones.
>
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