Michael Groden
email: mgroden@uwo.ca- Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/
an article from the James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Fall 1997 [published October 1998], pp. 129-147
© 1997, The University of Tulsa
There are several Internet mailing lists or discussion groups devoted exclusively
to Joyce and others on topics that will likely interest Joyceans. You can join a
list by sending a prescribed email messageÑusually "subscribe" or
something similarÑto an automated list-manager. Once subscribed, you will
receive all messages sent to the list (the volume can get quite heavy at times),
and you will also be able to post messages of your own. You will receive the list's
specific instructions regarding posting messages or leaving the list when your subscription
is accepted. Save these instructions, either electronically or in printed form; every
list's commands are slightly different from those of the others. Important note:
the list address that you use to post messages is different from the one used for
administrative purposes (subscribing, unsubscribing, and so forth). The addresses
given below are the administrative ones; you will not be able to post messages to
the lists using these addresses.
The subscribe message usually takes the form of: subscribe listname firstname lastname
(e.g., subscribe j-joyce Michael Groden). There should not be anything in the message
line other than the precise command. Leave the subject line in the email message
blank. If you usually include a signature at the end of your email messages, delete
it if you can. If you do include it, you will get a message telling you that much
of your message was unreadable, but the subscribe command will probably be processed
anyway.
Here are some of the currently available mailing lists:
1) J-JOYCE |
| administered at the University of Utah |
a general James Joyce discussion list
Send message to: listproc@lists.utah.edu
Message: subscribe j-joyce firstname lastname
2) FWAKE-L |
| organized by Michael O'Kelly, administered at University College, Dublin |
a Finnegans Wake list
Send message to: listserv@listserv.heanet.ie
Message: subscribe FWAKE-L firstname lastname
Note: This list used to be housed at listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie and many instructions for joining it still give that address. But the list moved to heanet.ie in June 1996, rendering the irlearn.ucd.ie address obsolete.
3) FWREAD |
| organized by Charles Cave, administered at the University of Colorado |
a Finnegans Wake reading-group list, one page per week
Send message to: listproc@lists.colorado.edu
Message: subscribe FWREAD firstname lastname
4) IRISH STUDIES |
| moderated by Robert Brinlee and Johann Norstedt at Virginia Tech University |
an Irish Studies discussion list
Send message to: listproc@ebbs.english.vt.edu
Message: subscribe IRISH-STUDIES firstname lastname
5) MODBRITS |
| moderated by Laura Davis-Clapper at Kent State University |
a discussion list devoted to Modern British Literature
Send message to: listserv@listserv.kent.edu
Message: subscribe ModBrits firstname lastname
6) MODERNISM |
| moderated by John Eckman at the University of Washington |
an interdisciplinary Modernism discussion list
Send message to: listproc@u.washington.edu
Message: subscribe Modernism firstname lastname
There are also lists devoted to many other twentieth-century authors (Woolf, Eliot, Pynchon, and so forth). You can locate these lists through a general Web search on the name, through Yahoo's categorized searches or through the more general modern literature sites listed in section H.
7) THE JAMES JOYCE CENTER AT DU-MOO |
| organized by Michael Ditmore, University of California at Berkeley |
There is also a realtime online site, the James Joyce Center at DU-MOO. (DU = Diversity University, a virtual university; MOO = MUD, Object-Oriented, where MUD = Multi-User Dungeon or Multi-User Domain.) A MOO lets several people connect to each other and communicate in real time; it is focused on a specific topic, such as Joyce. Michael Ditmore, who organizes the Joyce Center's sessions, announces seminars and other activities regularly on the J-Joyce and FWAKE-L lists.
You can go to DU-MOO directly through its Web
site, its Web gateway, or its telnet addresses
(du.org 8888 or 128.18.101.106 8888). Log on as "guest." Note the different
spacing and punctuation in these addresses.
created by Michael Groden, March 3, 1998; redesigned October 27, 1998
email: mgroden@uwo.ca - Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/