[ilds] OMG XVIII

Sumantra Nag sumantranag at gmail.com
Sat May 31 19:53:31 PDT 2014 

Dear James,

May I express my appreciation of your role in steering the ILDS Discussion
Forum in the light of my own limited participation in it. Your personal
responses to my posts and concerns in keeping the exchanges going, were
very readily made and were therefore helpful. I have also read your own
posts with interest, including those on The Guardian Reading and discussion
of the AQ in 2012, on the occasion of the Lawrence Durrell Centenary.

Of course we shall continue to see your exchanges here, and I'm sure you
will be playing a role in the activities of the ILDS.

May I also congratulate Linda Rashidi on her appointment as President of
the new Board ILDS.

If I might respond to your last mail on display of posts to the sender on
the ILDS Forum, may I venture to suggest that a thread of exchanges can
only be maintained if all participants are able to see the whole thread
including, naturally, their own posts which are sent in response to other
posts, and in response to which other observations are posted.

Best regards,

Sumantra

Sent from my Samsung Tablet
On 30 May 2014 23:56, "Gifford, James" <gifford at fdu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Sumantra,
>
> You'll still have the copy in your sent folder, and you'll receive a note
> when it's posted, but the list automatically (without any option for me to
> change it) does not send a copy of your own message to you -- that said, it
> will still be in the digest form and in the archive, so you can be sure it
> was sent.  It's for all messages going forward, not retroactively.
>
> For you (and anyone else with interest), the listserv archive is
> accessible through the ILDS website:
>
> http://www.lawrencedurrell.org
>
> Just look to the right side vertical bar area.
>
> All best,
> James
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2014 23:46:08 +0530
>  Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> James,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply but I don't think the final post is appearing before
>> the sender at all. If it was, I would have seen it by now.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Sumantra
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Tablet
>> On 30 May 2014 23:30, "Gifford, James" <gifford at fdu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello Sumantra,
>>>
>>> I've added an automated response for posters to receive when their
>>> message
>>> is sent out -- we keep the list moderated to reduce spam, so any delays
>>> in
>>> posting are based on our time zone differences, transit, and the usual
>>> human exigencies!
>>>
>>> I've sent Linda Rashidi a note as well.  I'm at the start of term and
>>> just
>>> back from a conference, so I'm playing catch-up myself.
>>>
>>> Best to you all,
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Fri, 30 May 2014 23:14:45 +0530
>>>  Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Thanks for the response Ken, and for the clarification you have
>>>> provided.
>>>>
>>>> How can you interact at all if your post is not seen on ILDS when it
>>>> appears? Surely the technical hitch causing this absence of the post in
>>>> the
>>>> sender's view can be solved.
>>>>
>>>> Sumantra
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Samsung Tablet
>>>> On 27 May 2014 10:28, "Kennedy Gammage" <gammage.kennedy at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello Marc, I did not see an answer to your question so I thought I
>>>> would
>>>>
>>>>> venture one:
>>>>>
>>>>> This ILDS email list you subscribe to is the 'listserv' - and we also
>>>>> mentioned Twitter, which is a worldwide social media platform. You can
>>>>> find
>>>>> the ILDS Twitter feed here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://twitter.com/DurrellSociety
>>>>>
>>>>> and easily 'follow' it by signing up on Twitter. However, I don't think
>>>>> either Twitter or Facebook has been able to replace the conversation
>>>>> and
>>>>> camaraderie that first attracted me to the ILDS via the old listserv.
>>>>> Can
>>>>> the new officers please address this: what can we do to bring
>>>>> excitement
>>>>> and joie de vivre back into the organization?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers - Ken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Marc Piel <marc at marcpiel.fr> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Am surprised to see ILDS and other lists mentionned in this message.
>>>>> As
>>>>>
>>>>>> a subscriber, this is the firrst I have heard of this. surely there
>>>>>> is a
>>>>>> rupture in communications somewhere or maybe it is volontary!!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can someone please clarify?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marc Piel
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Le 26/05/14 00:05, James Gifford a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Bruce and Ken,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The conference was a pleasure to host, and I have to give thanks to
>>>>>> FDU-Vancouver for the generous use of the facilities.  I also hope we
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> see both Twitter and the listserv being useful, which I think was the
>>>>>> expressed desire of the membership in Vancouver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The membership unanimously approved the nominations committee's
>>>>>> recommended slate of candidates for the ILDS Board (and all past
>>>>>> presidents
>>>>>> are also ex-officio members):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linda Rashidi - President
>>>>>> James Clawson - Vice President
>>>>>> Paul Lorenz - Secretary/Treasurer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At-large:
>>>>>> Charles Sligh
>>>>>> Pamela Francis
>>>>>> Corinne Alexandre-Garner
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll let the incoming board make the official announcement to the
>>>>>> membership directly, but I do want to extend my thanks to everyone who
>>>>>> served on the nominations committee and who formed a part of "my"
>>>>>> board
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> the past four years -- thank-you all.  Your help was immeasurable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All best,
>>>>>> James
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2014-05-25, 11:35 AM, Kennedy Gammage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Very good Bruce - I wish I could have been there. Best wishes to
>>>>>> everyone in the ILDS. Did I hear correctly that Anne Zahlan will be
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> next president? Congratulations Anne!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to see more communication via this listserv. I am a big
>>>>>> fan
>>>>>> of Twitter, but I am not logged-in all the time (to say the least!)
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> it's very easy to miss individual tweets. I never miss these ILDS
>>>>>> e-mails and read every one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers - Ken
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Bruce Redwine <
>>>>>> bredwine1968 at gmail.com
>>>>>> <mailto:bredwine1968 at gmail.com> <bredwine1968 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     My compliments to the organizers of OMG XVIII in Vancouver, BC.
>>>>>>       Much credit goes to James Gifford, whose campus at FDU hosted
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>     conference.  I found the proceedings both enlightening and
>>>>>>     enjoyable.  All the speakers and presenters did an excellent job.
>>>>>>  I
>>>>>>     especially enjoyed Ian MacNiven's keynote address. It is
>>>>>>     particularly enjoyable to think of the /Quartet/ as a string
>>>>>>     quartet, thanks to Kiyoko Magome, and to think about the source of
>>>>>>     Durrell's recipes of French cuisine in the /Quintet,/ thanks to
>>>>>>     Merrianne Timko.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Best wishes,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Bruce
>>>>>>
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