The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0904  Tuesday, 25 April 2000.

[1]     From:   F. Nicholas Clary" <
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        Date:   Monday, 24 Apr 2000 10:59:14 -0400
        Subj:   RE: SHK 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me

[2]     From:   John Amos <
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        Date:   Tuesday 25 Apr 2000 11:00:43 +0000
        Subj:   Re: SHK 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me

[3]     From:   Hardy M. Cook <
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        Date:   Tuesday, April 25, 2000
        Subj:   What Happened and How I Work


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From:           F. Nicholas Clary" <
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Date:           Monday, 24 Apr 2000 10:59:14 -0400
Subject: 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me
Comment:        RE: SHK 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me

It's unfortunate that this announcement has come too late.  I saw only
the last few minutes and regret that I did not see all of it.  I wonder
whether there will be another Bravo screening in the near future?

Nick Clary

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From:           John Amos <
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Date:           Tuesday 25 Apr 2000 11:00:43 +0000
Subject: 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me
Comment:        Re: SHK 11.0888 Shy Not Thy Gory Locks at Me

Hey - This sounds wonderful, but according to the message, it's already
happened (4/22 and 4/23).  Is the announced date of the program correct?

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From:           Hardy M. Cook <
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Date:           Tuesday, April 25, 2000
Subject:        What Happened and How I Work

Dear SHAKSPEReans:

As the two posting above indicate, an explanation for what happened with
the SHYLOCK announcement is in order.

To do so, I need to let members know what I do to bring SHAKSPER digests
to your mailboxes. I try to organize, edit, format, and mail the daily
digests at one sitting, if at all possible. At that time, I clear my
editor account of all messages sent to 
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are forwarded to me and those sent directly to 
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(By the way, there is no need to send your submissions to both
addresses; that's just more work for me). After I clear my mailbox, I
consider my editing tasks complete for the day.

When another submission arrives after I have completed the daily
mailing, I scan it and save it to my hard drive with a number followed
by a keyword so that I can group similar subjects when I edit the
following day. Because my time, as with so many of you, is preciously
short, I seldom read an entire message until I am working on the digest
complying stage.

Dana's announcement arrived Friday morning after I had completed the
Friday mailing to the membership. I glanced at it, labeled it 1shylock,
and saved it to my hard drive in my EDIT folder.

Because I have overcome my severe obsessive compulsion to compile
digests seven days and week, Dana's message stayed in my EDIT folder
until yesterday morning when I read it and realized that the shows
(which I would have loved to have seen and taped) were over. Rather than
sending Dana an I-am-sorry-your-posting-is-out-of-date letter, I send
out the announcement both for the historical record and to alert members
of the existence of the program so that if (or rather when) it is
repeated I will be able to get the message to the members in a more
timely fashion.

If anyone is further interested in how I work with SHAKSPER, I wrote a
seminar paper related to this work for the 1997 SAA Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C.: "The Politics of an Academic Discussion Group."  This
paper may be retrieved by send the command

GET SAA1997 SHAKSPER

to


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Hardy