Guys, I have appointed tiptreebio as a moderator for this group. She can kill spam messages as they come in. I will endeavour to do so as well. JCR...
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tiptreebio
Jan 3, 2008 10:57 am
Thanks. Does anyone else want to be added to the list, in case I'm busy? (not unlikely possibility) Gary? Eli? Julie...
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Eli Bishop
elibrn
Jan 10, 2008 7:39 am
Yay! And welcome back. And, Julie asked if anyone wants to be a backup moderator; I'd be glad to. I get pretty busy too at times, but with several of us...
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s.ymbolt
Jan 10, 2008 12:43 pm
Yay! I am glad this place will be kept alive and unburdened. Thank you guys for volunteering....
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sara92014
Jan 16, 2008 7:42 pm
I am leading a discussion of Julie Phillips' book on Tiptree this weekend (for a book club of 12 women about 30-ish years old). Has anyone already put...
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tiptreebio
Jan 18, 2008 3:01 pm
There isn't one yet that I know of. I asked my publisher and they said, "Sure, if you put one together we'll post it." So have people out there discussed the...
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eukrate
Dec 18, 2008 2:48 am
To Julie Phillips, Jeff Smith, Valis.. Is this Tiptree forum still functional? Looks like a lot of garbage these days. Perhaps the meaningful discussions have...
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s.ymbolt
Dec 18, 2008 10:21 am
The forum is still alive for me, at least :D The garbage gets nicely filtered out by my Gmail spam scanner and all I get is the silence ;) But still, I see no...
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s.ymbolt
Jan 12, 2009 10:41 am
Hi everybody! Back in approximately 2001 I made this music compilation that serves as a soundtrack for the story "Slow Music." It is just 21 tracks that I...
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tuckerestron
Feb 9, 2010 12:09 am
I am still here! On a day when I am not feeling ill I will read your thesis and maybe even have something intelligent to say about it. Unfortunately, today...
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alex buchet
alexbuchet
Feb 9, 2010 3:05 pm
Good to know that this forum is still alive, and that the spam is defeated....
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s.ymbolt
Oct 18, 2010 7:24 pm
I think that although this group has not been receiving any activity in a long time, it should still be maintained, in case it's needed for something in the...
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Gary
gary@...
Oct 19, 2010 12:05 am
If you look at all the spam, it's from Yahoo addreses. That suggests that it's trivial to script a bot that creates a new yahoo account, searches for &...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 19, 2010 6:28 am
... But are Yahoo addresses admitted automatically? I'm asking this because I recently signed up for a new group, and although I was using a Yahoo address, it...
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tiptreebio
Oct 24, 2010 10:05 pm
I'm a moderator of the group, and I looked to see if I can change the group to a restricted one, with membership approved by the admin. But I don't have...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 24, 2010 10:11 pm
... This is certainly one option, but I will look into our (your) options and will get back to you here within a week, if that's OK. There must be some links...
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valis_lives
Oct 26, 2010 7:15 pm
All, I added some privileges to Julie's account today -- she now has all the powers of an admin except the ability to delete the group. Best, Chris...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 26, 2010 7:25 pm
All right. Julie, please tell us whether you can now change anything related to registration limitations. Note that if you change the group-joining rules to...
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tiptreebio
Oct 26, 2010 9:48 pm
OK, I was able to change the group to "restricted" and remove some of the spammers. That should help. Approving the requests shouldn't be a problem. Things...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 27, 2010 6:51 am
... Thank you, Julie! ... Great! Did you get to communicate with the translator? What was the whole process like? ... I'm going to lend the bio to one of the...
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tiptreebio
Oct 28, 2010 3:28 pm
About the translator: no one has asked me anything, not yet anyway. I did get a few questions from the Spanish translator, but not very many. I was surprised...
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Gary
gary@...
Oct 28, 2010 3:35 pm
Somewhere I have a photocopy of the Star Trek fanfic piece that Allie wrote. Jeff probably knows the history behind it but it was kindly sent to me by someone...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 28, 2010 6:02 pm
... Well, I would be very glad if you happened to recall that :) I do know about this fanfic and what she planned to do with it from "Meet Me At Infinity," but...
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s.ymbolt
Oct 28, 2010 6:13 pm
... Strangely enough, I found nothing that needed clarification in all of the (wonderful BTW) biography. As a translator myself, I can guess as to why they...
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Gary
gary@...
Oct 29, 2010 3:48 am
The story was "Meet Me At Infinity" published in Eridani Triad III, 1972. Mark Siegel's Starmont Reader's Guide describes it as, "a whimisical Star Trek...
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s.ymbolt
Nov 4, 2010 8:28 am
I'm sorry for not having come up with it sooner, but I just thought that maybe the translations of the biography could be updated by include information about...
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Eli
elibrn
Dec 2, 2010 10:12 pm
I totally forgot about the Tiptree/Trek connection until a few hours ago, when I was reminded of the rather creepy 1968 episode "The Tholian Web", and realized...
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losmara
Jan 6, 2013 12:38 am
Hi Everybody, I'm new here. I first learned of the existence of James Tiptree about a year ago, after reading Suzy McKee Charnas's Holdfast Chronicles (Walk...
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scfeldman@...
losmara
Jan 6, 2013 1:04 am
I forgot to mention that I obtained the book, James Tiptree, Jr Starmont Reader's Guide 22) by Mark Richard Siegel, two days ago, and have found its contents...
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Gary
gary@...
Jan 6, 2013 6:06 am
... I'd also recommend picking up Meet Me at Infinity since it had a lot of additional biographical material as well. Also, there was an old interview with her...
