From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V5 #219 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Thursday, September 21 2000 Volume 05 : Number 219 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: y kant tori read [Nadyne Mielke ] non-Tori content... [Lisa071573@aol.com] Re: Black Dove's Sexual Assault [Dracovixen@aol.com] Re: faq format [Nadyne Mielke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:40:16 -0400 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: y kant tori read At 01:27 PM 9/19/00 -0700, Robert Greene wrote: > >Hmmm...I just got a "Y Kant Tori Read" original cd or so I >think. The barcode number is 7567-81845-1 date says 1988. >And on the spine it says 81845-1. This damn well be an >original for what I payed for it. Can anyone confirm whether >this is the original or not?? The barcode and spine are not the only things that you need to look at on your copy of YKTR. For information on how to tell if your CD copy is real, check out the YKTR FAQ at: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/alley/4370/yktrfaq.html HTH. :) /nad PS: Note the new email address! rmta.org is having issues, so I'm using Mindspring again. If you've emailed me recently and haven't gotten a response, please resend it to . :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:58:43 EDT From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: non-Tori content... ok if the moderator allows... I am hosting a house concert on Sunday Sept 24 at 7pm in Gilroy, California for a really cool folksinger named Allette Brooks.. she is not much like Tori - - she plays wonderful guitar and is really folky and funny. She reminds me of a cross between Dar Williams and Ani's guitar-playing.. I adore her... anyway, due to some competing events in the surrounding towns I am having a tough time getting an audience. So if anyone is interesting in coming to my house on Sunday for a night of acoustic music please e-mail me privately for more info and directions. (I promise to show off my collection of Tori m&g photos...) The tix are $8- 12 (sliding scale). You can also check out Allette's website for sound samples and info: www.allettebrooks.com. thanks :) Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:38:06 EDT From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Re: Black Dove's Sexual Assault I am sorry to hear of yuor misfortunes. Do you know that Men's Health actually published an article claiming that sexual assault statistics on college campuses is a "feminist myth"?! And, that campuses with high statistics are "uhhealthy" for men. Isn't that sickening!?!? Anyway, you're absolutely right. They'll tell you it's all apart of their culture...well, wasn't it part of the southern culture to have black slaves? (By the way, I am anti-slavery, I am only using this to make a point). If this Taliban was doing these horrible things due to racial differences, everyone would step in screaming about human rights. But when it comes to women...aren't we human, too? Black Dove "An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King Jr. In a message dated 9/19/00 1:58:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: << "It's their culture. You have no right to judge another's culture and religion (because the Taliban is a religion)." Or you're labeled a femi-nazi by a right-winger. Sickening. >> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:52:17 -0400 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: faq format At 01:06 AM 9/15/00 -0400, the real dick cheney wrote: [snip] >this is basically just a structurally rearrangement of an existing faq >designed to make it easier for people to find the answers for what they are >looking for. >anyone have any thoughts on this? let me know. The issue with most FAQs (and, really, most help files) is that it's written for one type of audience, when there are really two. The first audience is the one who actually has a question, and are looking for the answer to it. The problem here is that they may not know how to phrase the question properly and/or the same way that it's phrased in the FAQs. The second audience is a reader who's just browsing, and reading anything that looks interesting. They may have been a part of the above audience, but started reading the document after finding the answer to their question (or after -not- finding the answer to their question). I think that your who/what/where/etc questions would be even more confusing to the first type of reader. Quite a lot of FAQs begin with "what" (what album is Cornflake Girl on? what is Tori singing in the background of Spark?) -- I think you'd only break out a few questions with the way that you're suggesting. Other questions don't really fit into the who/what/where scheme. Is "how many different versions of Boys for Pele" -really- a "how" question? Or, to put it another way, if that's my question, am I going to think to look under "how"? This isn't to say that I don't think that some of your idea is useful. I think an excellent resource would be a "Tori's Friends and Family" page [1], with short bios and related stuff, like what you mention. *shrug* So I dunno. /nad {new email address! new email address!} [1] I hesitate to use "FAQ" here, 'cause (at least the way I'm visualizing it) it wouldn't have any questions in it. But anything information-related is usually lumped under FAQ anyway. You get the idea. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V5 #219 *************************************