From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #263 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, August 10 1998 Volume 04 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: New Terra Incognita [Neile Graham ] Re: Ecto-quette question [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:20:33 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: New Terra Incognita C. K. Coney wrote: >If you haven't subscribed to Terra Incognita >(formerly Rhodeways), do it today! I have to ditto this. Happy's long article was wonderful, and subscribing to the magazine is a great way to help Happy and get something delightful in return. Everyone wins! It's good for Happy's career to have an active fanzine, it's good for you to receive it and get the special in print on paper material available there. And having enough subscriptions makes certain the magazine is available as promotion for Happy and for those in the world without the time, inclination or ability to be an ecto subscriber. And a subscription is the best way to let Sharon know that we appreciate her wonderful work on both Happy's and our behalf! It's time for us to renew, so I'll be writing a check in the next day or two. - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:29:55 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Ecto-quette question >I'd like to thank everyone for their kind replies to my question. For >those who also lurk and wonder, the consensus is that everything and >everyone mentioned here does get noted, mentally or physically, and not >to take any delay or lack of immediate response to be ignorance. Exactly >as I hoped and suspected. The affirmation of such is comforting, all the >same. Absolutely! I did wish that the band had some sound files available, though--that makes quite a difference for me when checking out a band I won't immediately be able to hear live or in some other form. I've bought discs based on sound samples on the web (Susan McKeown in the days before she became an ecto star). >One other ecto meta-question that was not answered yet is What is the >turnaround on the digest? Does that get compiled and sent daily, weekly, >after X posts, ??? Just curious. I believe, through looking at the archives, that it's compiled every 24 hours. >Sometimes topics here have an initial >flurry of responses, go dormant, then pick up again, I wonder if that's >digest-lag or "geez, I haven't checked my email in a while..." Probably >more of the latter as I think about it more. For me it's more the lag time between when I get a message and get the energy and time to respond. (As people here will attest, I can [blush] take months to respond to email. Anyway, fog, please do keep us apprised of news about Sweeter Than Wine and anyone else you run across you think is worth posting about--we're reading, and in fact your post is in my files to ask you for permission to use it for the Ectophiles' Guide. The other thing is when someone posts about a band I don't know it's hard to know what to say in response! I guess a "sounds cool" and "thanks" is always appropriate, though. - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #263 **************************