Re: [acornlive] This great site

Kimberly Kanigel (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:01:21 PST

Hello, Everyone:

I know that the message below was posted to Nessa, (and it is also very 
old) so I hope that I am not repeating an answer she might have given 
you (Michael) privately.



>Dear Nessa;
>
> Well, when I write, I usually write everything in my own Word file on 
>the computer. Sometimes, in contemplating submitting poens or short 
>stories to the workshop, I often wish I could just browse back to my 
own 
>file and post my work. Like with E-mail (remember my gaffe on the 
>list?).
> Might there be a way to do this? I spend a lot of time and care 
>writing, and sometimes I just don't feel like writing everything twice, 
>even to be able to get feedback from real writers. 
> Ah, Sloth... My one great vice....

If I am grasping the question correctly, you are asking if there is a 
way to move text from your Word files to your e-mail program?  If this 
is the case, all you have to do is use the Copy (or Cut) and Paste 
functions.  They should exist both in your e-mail program and your text 
editor (Word) and you simply Copy selected text in your text file and 
then Paste it into the dialogue box in which you write e-mail messages.  
Does this make sense?  I hope not to reiterate anything you already 
know.  I use these functions to write long messages, during which my web 
browser has previously disconnected me, causing me to lose my work.

Since I am at it, I thought I would respond to the requests for comments 
on the quality of the Electric Acorn site.  As the soon-to-be editor of 
an anthology of heroic  poetry I am collecting as many poems as possible 
from modern poets.  In my search, I have skimmed and read thousands of 
poems in my visits to personal home pages, webzines, and educational 
sites.  

 When I encountered the Electric Acorn, Vol. II,  I immediately joined 
the mailing list because of all of the sites I have visited it has the 
most consistently high quality of poetry.  It also has a good format; at 
any time, all of the referents are in place to know whose poem I am 
reading, what it's called, and how to get back to the main page.  The 
page design is clean, relevant, well-organized and compact.  
Unfortunately, it looks as though the feature of the "Next" and "Back" 
buttons accompanying each poem has been removed in the third volume; 
these buttons make it really convenient to browse the poetry without 
having to flip back and forth to the home page.  But, again, in all my 
browsing it's the best poetry site I've found, and I wanted to give the 
webmasters heartfelt thanks for creating and maintaining it.

Best regards,

         Kimberly Kanigel ------> kkanigel@hotmail.com

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