5.0128 Rs: ICAME; World of Poetry; OE Font; TEI S/W (6/117)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 6 Jun 91 16:57:37 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0128. Thursday, 6 Jun 1991.


(1) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 11:33:16 GMT (30 lines)
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: What is ICAME?

(2) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 16:53:47 EDT (20 lines)
From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: world of poultry and other scams

(3) Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 15:29 PDT (9 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac)

(4) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 22:17 EDT (30 lines)
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: "World of Poetry"

(5) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 23:39 EST (15 lines)
From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac)

(6) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 09:53:15 BST (13 lines)
From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Software to check TEI SGML

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 11:33:16 GMT
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: What is ICAME?

ICAME started in 1977 with a small group of people working on English
machine-readable corpora. The name is short for: International Computer
Archive of Modern English. The aim of ICAME is to collect and
distribute information on English language material available for
computer processing and on linguistic research completed or in progress
on the material, to compile an archive of English text corpora in
machine-readable form, and to make material available to research
institutions.

The archive mentioned in the name resides at the Norwegian Computing
Centre for the Humanities in Bergen, Norway. This acts as a
distribution centre for computerized English-language corpora and
corpus-related software. ICAME publishes the ICAME Journal which
appears once a year, with articles and information about English
computer corpora. Conferences, usually in May/June each year, have been
arranged since 1979. Proceedings from some of the conferences have been
published by Rodopi, Amsterdam.

For more information, write to: ICAME, Norwegian Computing Centre for
the Humanities, P.O. Box 53, N-5027 Bergen, Norway. You can also get
information through the ICAME network servers: FAFSRV@NOBERGEN.BITNET or
NAVFSERV@NORA.NAVF-EDB-H.UIB.NO.

Stig Johansson, Oslo
Co-ordinating secretary, ICAME

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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 16:53:47 EDT
From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: world of poultry and other scams

This is a very well known scam. It was listed along with
International Authors and Writers Who's Who (not associated with the
real Who's Who), American Poetry Association (the old anthology
scam), Great Lakes Poetry Press (anthology again $40 to be in) in the
"rip offs" file at the North Carolina Writers' Network.

This particular scam has several steps to it. First a very high
"reading" fee. Next a "publication" fee. Then an anthology for sale
(I forget the price of theirs but most are over $40 US). These folks
have added a convention to their "services."


Paul Jones
Office for Information Technology
University of North Carolina
<pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 15:29 PDT
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac)

OE to de Lacey: just to speed things up, I downloaded two OE fonts, or
one fo t hem about three months ago, and if the sender, from New York
State, if I recall , doesnt reply to you soon, perhaps I can retrieve it
from diskette in its binh ex form and upload it to you. I havent looked
at it, since I have been too busy to do so till now. Yours, Kessler
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 22:17 EDT
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: "World of Poetry"

WORLD OF POETRY

I remember seing a documentary on one of the two anglophone networks we
have in Montreal about a convention of poets. They were contacted by
mail and invited to attend a poetry "competition" for which they had to
pay a substantial amount of money!!!

If I remember correctly the conclusion, the whole thing was another
original way of robbing people.

I do NOT say that the organisation you mentioned is the one accused of
"extortion". But as we say in french, un homme averti en vaut deux.
Check with CTV (W5) or CBC (Fifth Estate).

Michel.

Michel Lenoble
Litterature Comparee
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succ. "A"
MONTREAL (Quebec)
Canada - H3C 3J7
E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca
Tel.: (514) 288-3916


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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 23:39 EST
From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET
Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac)

There is an excellent Old English font by Brian Whittaker of York U. It
is bitmapped and works on the Deskwriter as well as the Imagewriter.
There is also a PostScript font, Aelfric, as well. Both are on the
server for the list Ansax-L at WVNVM. I have Whittaker's font, called
NY OE, and could send it to you in binhex form, if you do not have
access to Ansax-L. Please note: I tried to respond directly, but my
mailer will not accept the address on your note (i.e.
"DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK").

Grover Zinn
FZINN@OBERLIN
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 09:53:15 BST
From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Software to check TEI SGML

I'm directing a project at the Computer Science Department at the
University of Manchester that aims, in part, to check TEI conformant
coding. Your question is fortuitous because I am looking for a European
partner who might supply us with sample data. Are you interested? If
so, contact me directly at rich@cs.man.ac.uk or by phone at (+44
61)-275-6266

Richard Giordano
Lecturer, Information Systems