RE: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread Anita Graham
I apologise that I didn't specifically mention that the messages would be googleable. It seemed to be obvious to me, as did the fact that they would be publicly available. That *is* the point of mail.archive.com. However, I did say "let's see how this goes", so as it is obviously not acceptable t

Re: Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread dihenleygo
Just for the sake of completeness, I just googled my name and "girlsown archive". And yes it found a post I sent. So for so good. Not a problem. Then I noticed that at the bottom of the page was an option to reply via email the writer of the message. When I clicked on the email button, m

RE: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread nicky.j.wade
> Emma said > This is the message that Anita announces it. She doesn't > mention that it will therefore be Googleable. The archives > don't show email addresses, Okay, afraid you're wrong. At the bottom of each post on the mail-archive site there is a nice big button that says 'Reply by email t

[GO] DF Bruce

2004-11-15 Thread Kidz Books
Thanks for replying, Eva, and for the rundown on the series - Nancy at St Bride's is next on my reading list. I suppose that Morag and Christine's story is tied up quite nicely in Girls of St Bride's, so there doesn't really need to be another book about both of them. I did like the girls in Chris

RE: [GO] Unfairness in AF

2004-11-15 Thread nicky.j.wade
> Adeline > In fact, most of Lois's > little tricks make my blood boil. For me it's the meeting about the netball match when Lois pretends Nick has missed more than one practice and knows she's twisting other things. Can't read it >I often wish Janice, Rowan > or Ann would tell the Authoritie

Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread Heather Edmonds
Is this a major issue? I don't think I post anything I mind being in the public domain. If I minded I wouldn't post it to a mailing list. Heather > So I see. I hope everyone realises that this list is > now fully accessible by any random member of the great > public out there. See the faq at > >

Re: [GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Nicky Smith
- Original Message - From: "Eva M. Löfgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Girlsown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:38 PM Subject: [GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation > Barbara Dryden wrote: > > The conflict between a middle/upper class link between fresh air and > >

[GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Eva M. Löfgren
Barbara Dryden wrote: The conflict between a middle/upper class link between fresh air and health and the lower orders' belief that night air will kill you seems eternal. In Elizabeth von Arnim's books (the German ones) there is a lot about the stupid peasants sealing themselves into their house

Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread Emma DW
This is the message that Anita announces it. She doesn't mention that it will therefore be Googleable. The archives don't show email addresses, and to be honest, I'm fine with that, and prefer the ability to search for keywords, rather than having to guess the right month/ poster/ email's subject .

[GO] AF and courts of honour

2004-11-15 Thread Tig Thomas
Adeline said: I feel that in real life, most kids would make more of an attempt to prove that they were innocent or at least not that guilty, especially over the whole hike thing. I agree. I've always felt if AF could be said to have a fault it's that her characters can be surprisingly mature for

Re: [GO] Pronunciation of Sarah - phonetically or otherwise

2004-11-15 Thread Sara Batts
I'm Sara - I was baptised with an 'h' and hence was Saira; but after 18 years of being one of half a dozen in my class at school dropped the 'h.' Some individuality in print, at least. Still Saira though. When I was briefly Mrs Megarry I got very used to being called Sah-ra Megg-arr-y (instead of

Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread Tom & Tash
But it did go on the list, didn't it? Sorry if I sent it to the wrong address - but I am sure I remember Jo replying to thank me, so she at least read it. Unless I copied her in... Natasha - Original Message - From: "H V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[GO] CS girl in Trouble & Newly Wed

2004-11-15 Thread Robertssmo
Natasha said - > I read a fanfic on the Chaletian bulletin board about a Chalet Girl In > Trouble last Sunday, and I cried at the end of that. It was very good, in > case the author is on the list! I would like to endorse this as well. I thought was fantastic, so true to EBD, & yet so completely

Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread H V
So I see. I hope everyone realises that this list is now fully accessible by any random member of the great public out there. See the faq at http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html Helen V. --- Bettina Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume this is to do with the archiving feature > Anita >

Re: [GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread Bettina Vine
I assume this is to do with the archiving feature Anita turned on recently. Bettina > I just did a google search for 'girlsown archives' to > find the page to do some catching up, and am rather > worried to find the following page come up 6th on my > list of hits: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/g

[GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Spurrier
I pickedup in a second hand bookshop a book on "How To Keep House," by Mrs C S Peel, dated 1902, which contains some comments on health care and prevention of illness, including the importance of your drains, which I thought might be of interest: "Everyone will agree that it is more important for

[GO] list archives turning up on google - FAO Admin

2004-11-15 Thread H V
I just did a google search for 'girlsown archives' to find the page to do some catching up, and am rather worried to find the following page come up 6th on my list of hits: http://www.mail-archive.com/girlsown@home.it.net.au/msg00026.html This is a message from Natasha, sent to Girlsown last week

[GO] Unfairness in AF

2004-11-15 Thread Adeline Tissier
Janice said: > I found the unfairness of the court of honour distressing in Autumn Term. I > think it was one of the first books i'd read where things didn't come right > in the end. Mostly I still miss out on the whole rickyard/court of honour > when I reread. I am not keen on that bit either.

[GO] confusion - multiple posts in various formats

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
Many apologies for the fact that my posts seem to have come through in html - and more than once from what I am receiving in my inbox. According to my outbox, they were sent once each and in plain text, but that's certainly not what I received - I have no idea why!!! Please forgive the gremlin at

[GO] BD:Violets: Disability in EBD pt.2 (of 3)

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
EBD portrays a very different kind of disabled character in her depiction of Naomi Elton, a central figure in "Trials for the Chalet School". Naomi is a sixteen year old girl who has a crooked shoulder and walks with a stick as a result of an accident some years earlier. Allied with this, the rea

[GO] BD:Violets: Disability in EBD pt.3 (final part!)

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
Having ensured that Naomi is spiritually healed, EBD can now allow her to be physically healed as well. After the St. Mildred's pantomime Naomi is driven home by one of the young doctors in his 'motorcycle combination', but he skids as he drives and Naomi is injured. A long and difficult operatio

[GO] BD:Violets: Disability in EBD pt.2 (of 3)

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
EBD portrays a very different kind of disabled character in her depiction ofNaomi Elton, a central figure in "Trials for the Chalet School".  Naomi is asixteen year old girl who has a crooked shoulder and walks with a stick as aresult of an accident some years earlier.  Allied with this, the

[GO] BD:Violets: Disability in EBD pt.3 (final part!)

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
Having ensured that Naomi is spiritually healed, EBD can now allow her to bephysically healed as well.  After the St. Mildred's pantomime Naomi isdriven home by one of the young doctors in his 'motorcycle combination', buthe skids as he drives and Naomi is injured.  A long and difficult oper

[GO] BD:Violets: Disability in EBD pt.1

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Maurice
This isn't due till tomorrow, but my internet connection has been playing up and I;m off to work early, so I'm going to post it now in the hope it will arrive, or that I can keep trying if it doesn't - hope that's ok, I suppose everyone can just not read it till tomorrow - assuming they can cope wi

Re: [GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Barbara Dryden
The conflict between a middle/upper class link between fresh air and health and the lower orders' belief that night air will kill you seems eternal. In Elizabeth von Arnim's books (the German ones) there is a lot about the stupid peasants sealing themselves into their houses and sewing their ch

[GO] Sorry

2004-11-15 Thread claire
I am writing to apologize for inadvertently sending personal correspondence to The List. I am sincerely sorry. It was an accident. Claire -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cg

Re: [GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Tom & Tash
Thanks so much for typing all that out, Lisa - fascinating reading! I loved the bit about forcing servants to open windowns "even against their will", you can just imagine a skirmish between mistress and maid. Or, more likely, one wandering around the house opening windows, and the other quietly

[GO] Setting the record straight

2004-11-15 Thread Diane Purkiss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, girlsown- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >>I *had* kind wondered who these 'positive messages' had come from - I was >>sort of expecting they'd been Handed Down From On High. Well, (on a point of honour, Madam moderator) I was one of those who emailed Eleanor interestedl

[GO] ADMIN: moderation

2004-11-15 Thread Anita Graham
Do you know that when I announced the moderation policy I seriously thought it might never be invoked! Please address all questions about the moderation policy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This will include all admins) All discussion of the US elections should cease now. Claire's unfortunate po

[GO] Swiss sanatorium article

2004-11-15 Thread Susan1Sarah2
An article in today's Guardian ( I think) about the San in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (which I have not read) , this link worked via Google .http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1351364,00.html I found the link to this article via a section of the Guardian Talk Pages whic

Re: [GO] sequels/series

2004-11-15 Thread Wards
There is a web site that lists 19th century American girls' series - it is http://www.readseries.com. There is a chart that gives at least 30 different authors of series books. In the 20th century there were the Connie Blair books by Betsy Allen (Betty Cavanna), in which the heroine acts as am

[GO] ADMIN: new Admin Address

2004-11-15 Thread Helen_A
Since the server is rejecting the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, I have set up another -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone wanting specifically me should use the new one. Helen -- Helen_A -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration

Re: [GO] Buffy & Jonathan & Patrick

2004-11-15 Thread Laura Webster
Well, you would, natch! >>>And a minor character (another Merrick) copes very well with being hung, drawn and quartered. Nicky Vote in the Chalet School Fanfiction Awards! http://www.chaletian.co.uk/awards/ --

Re: [GO] Stratemeyer Syndicate

2004-11-15 Thread Nicky Smith
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Copson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: [GO] Stratemeyer Syndicate > What about the Animal Ark series? They are written by 'Lucy Daniels', who > doesn't exist - in fact, they're written by va

Re: [GO] Buffy & Jonathan & Patrick

2004-11-15 Thread Nicky Smith
- Original Message - From: "Laura Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: [GO] Buffy & Jonathan & Patrick > > Returning to someone's point about the similarities between Angel and > Patrick, having just read *Peter's Room* (w

[GO] Ah, I love the smell of controversy in the morning...

2004-11-15 Thread Laura Webster
Not that this whole Bush-liberals-grr-tra-la-la thing isn't hugely amusing, but, speaking as one lone GOer, can't people give it a rest? It's not even debate anymore, it's just people ranting at each other. Liss _ Vote in the Chalet School Fanfiction Awa

[GO] Buffy & Jonathan & Patrick

2004-11-15 Thread Laura Webster
I recently bought a whole load of Buffy DVDs, including series 2 and 3, which I haven't really seen since they were originally on BBC2, and I was surprised at how often Jonathan was actually around. Yes, he was only a proper character in the eps already mentioned, but he's actually floating around

[GO] Sick fathers

2004-11-15 Thread Laura Webster
Wasn't Mr Atherton in HGD another PTSD-esque sufferer? I think traditionally it's been more likely for mothers to be sick because that can be romantic (within the genre!), and it's OK for a woman to be ill on a couch, but men (even when they're absent father types) have to be manly and well and ca

[GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

2004-11-15 Thread Lisa Spurrier
I pickedup in a second hand bookshop a book on "How To Keep House," by Mrs C S Peel, dated 1902, which contains some comments on health care and prevention of illness, including the importance of your drains, which I thought might be of interest: "Everyone will agree that it is more important for

[GO] OT: Aileen McGoogan

2004-11-15 Thread HEATHER EDMONDS
Sorry to use GO for this but I need to contact Aileen McGoogan about a book I've just bought from her and I have mislaid her email address (well my PC seems to have eaten it) . She's not on the subscribers list so I don't know if she's a current member. Can anyone help me with an email address. Tha

[GO] OT: Aileen McGoogan

2004-11-15 Thread HEATHER EDMONDS
Sorry to use GO for this but I need to contact Aileen McGoogan about a book I've just bought from her and I have mislaid her email address (well my PC seems to have eaten it) . She's not on the subscribers list so I don't know if she's a current member. Can anyone help me with an email address. Tha

Re: [GO] BD Sweet Violets

2004-11-15 Thread Helen_A
On 14 Nov 2004 at 8:05, Sally Dore wrote: DFB uses illness in many > of the *plot-progressing* ways outlined by Dorian, but unlike the > others, she seems not to use illnesses in the other way of varying the > emotional tone, tugging heart-strings, as the others do. There are no > bedside crise