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Call
for Nominations for IJA Board of Directors IJA
members wishing to run for one of the 11 spots on the Board
of Directors must send in a self nomination form by April 1 to
register candidacy and appear on the first ballot. The ballot will
be included as part of the festival registration flier to be mailed
to members shortly thereafter.
Persons
who do not file nomination form
with the IJA by that time may still register their candidacy
at the general business meeting during the St. Louis festival. A
final ballot will be compiled for members to vote on during the
festival, but those who file after the April 1 deadline will lose
the benefit of the absentee ballots mailed in earlier. People who
vote on the first ballot may pull that ballot at the
festival in favor of the final ballot if they wish. For more
information, or to register your candidacy by April 1, contact IJA
secretary Tom Bennett, Akron OH. Jugglers
Create E-Mail Network If
you have access to a computer service at a university,
government, scientific or business site, you may be only an e-mail
message away from joining the new computerized juggling network.
Last
fall Duane Starcher sent a message to an electronic bulletin board
service called Usenet, which lists hundreds of interest groups,
asking for contacts with jugglers. Within a week he had replies from
about 30 jugglers from as far away as Australia, New Zealand,
England and Germany.
In
the meantime, Phillip Paxton had, on his own, set up a "listserver;"
one computer which would receive all the messages mailed to it and
automatically remail them to people on the master list. Jugglers at
Purdue and Indiana universities were already using it to exchange
messages about their meetings.
Starcher
sent Paxton his list of names, which were plugged into the
listserver. By early December, more than 150 jugglers were happily
and constantly swapping ideas about juggling, leaving the tiresome
electronic details to little silicon chips. And all of this took
place in about the time it would have taken to get one letter
through surface mail.
The
two main networks involved are Bitnet and Internet, which connect
not only with each other, but with other networks like Ca*net and
ARPAnet. On Bitnet alone, you can send and receive messages from
people and information from machines at more than 1,300 locations in
38 countries.
How
do you get in on the fun? If you have e-mail privileges at a site on
one of these networks, send the following message: SUB JUGGLING
*Your Name, to this electronic address: (******)
How
you do that varies with the computer you use at your site. If in
doubt, ask your operations staff. By the way, the asterisk in front
of your name identifies you as an IJA member.
That
one message is all it takes. You will then be subscribed to the
service. If you have spelled everything correctly and the message was
received, you will get a message back from the listserver telling you
about things you can do. For example, you can receive the complete
list of jugglers on the system so that you can email to your
friends individually. You can also request archive files of all of the
messages that you missed by coming in late. And best of all, you will
begin getting mail from other jugglers right away.
To
access the network from CompuServe, go to E-Mail and send the
following message: SUB JUGGLING your name to the following
address:>INTERNET: (*********). Once the listserver has your name,
you'll send and receive the messages just like ordinary Compuserve
E-Mail, at standard CompuServe rates. Once you're on the network,
address bulletin board messages to >INTERNET: (*******)
and they'll be forwarded to all jugglers on the list.
What
else can electronic jugglers do?
Already,
Bengt Magnusson and Bruce Tiemann have sent out a program to compute
juggling patterns. Starcher, from his home in Newfoundland, was able
to pass on names of Australian IJA members to a juggler there. He sent
addresses of American equipment suppliers to someone in England, and
received in turn some tips on the five ball half-shower from jugglers
who were farther along.
Some
jugglers may use services such as CompuServe. Neither Paxton nor
Starcher knows how CompServe jugglers can access Bitnet or Internet,
but believe it is possible. Anyone who knows how this can be done
should contact Starcher or Paxton via e-mail. They'll make
sure the information gets both on the network and into Jugglers World.
If you can't reach them electronically, Starcher's surface mail
address is: Duane Starcher; St. John's, Newfoundland; Canada. - Article courtesy of Duane Starcher and Phillip Paxton |