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Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 9 May 1997 09:52:01 -0500
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With the Ottawa conference fast approaching (May 15-18), we hope that
Society for Cinema Studies members will be interested in taking advantage
of one of our new Internet resources, scs.conference (located on the SCS
Web site).
 
Scs.conference is an electronic bulletin board containing specific
discussion areas--Usenet-style "newsgroups".  It functions a lot like an
email discussion group.  Users may "post" messages to the scs.conference
newsgroup and thereby make them available to anyone with Internet
access--throughout the world. The major difference between an email
discussion list and a newsgroup is that the former sends messages
directly to your email inbox while the latter requires you to connect to
a remote computer in order to view the messages.
 
We envision that presenters might post their papers, excerpts, and/or
abstracts to scs.conference, thus giving other interested conference
participants the opportunity to read papers or abstracts in advance.  In
addition, after the conference these papers would be available for
printing and downloading, and SCS members unable to attend this year's
conference would still be able to participate electronically.
 
We feel that the annual conference and the Society for Cinema Studies as
a whole will benefit greatly from such an exchange, and we strongly
encourage SCS members to post abstracts or papers to the newsgroup at any
point before, during, and after this year's conference.
 
HOW TO READ AND POST TO SCS.CONFERENCE
 
1) Connecting to scs.conference
 
If you are using a Web browser like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer, then you already possess the means to
connect to scs.conference.  Navigator, Explorer and other major Web
browsers have built-in "news readers" (the software used to connect to
scs.conference). All you need to do is go to the SCS Web page at
http://www.cinemastudies.org and click on "Email Lists and Discussion" (you
may also go directly to this page at
http://www.cinemastudies.org/discuss.htm).  Scroll down the page and click
on "scs.conference."  This will connect you to the scs.conference newsgroup
and display the messages.  Click on a message and its contents will appear
in a reading area below.
 
Alternatively, you may run a news reader separately from your Web browser
and attach directly to the news server at news.tcf.ua.edu where
scs.conference is hosted.  For instance, with Microsoft Internet Mail
and News,  go to the News menu and pull down to Options. (With some
versions of Internet Mail and News you go to the Edit menu and
choose Preferences.) Click on the Server tab and click on the Add
button.  Enter news.tcf.ua.edu for the news server and click OK.  After
you subscribe/load the newsgroups (most versions will automatically ask
you to subscribe, but you may have to go to the News menu and select
Download Complete Newsgroup List), click on scs.conference to read
the messages.  For earlier versions of the Microsoft news reader, go
to Edit and pull down to Preferences.  Click on News and enter
news.tcf.ua.edu for the News Server Address.  Click OK. After the
newsgroups have loaded click on scs.conference.
 
2) Posting your paper/abstract
 
After you have connected to scs.conference through your browser (or news
reader), just click on the To: News (Netscape) or New Message (Explorer)
button.  You should see "scs.conference" displayed in the "Newsgroups:"
blank of your message; this indicates that the message will be posted in
the scs.conference newsgroup. Then if you are using Windows or a Mac you
may select the entire document, copy it, and paste it directly into the
body of the news message.  Click on the Send button and you're done!
 
If you are unable to send your message, you might need to set up your
browser for email. Since mail server addresses differ from location to
location, please contact your local tech support or University's online
documentation for that information.  If you are still unable to post to
scs.conference, send a copy of your paper to [log in to unmask] and I
will forward it to the newsgroup.
 
Hint for Netscape users: if the line breaks don't look right, before you
send your paper try widening the message area by pulling on the lower
right hand corner of the message window.
 
If you would rather send your paper as an attachment, you should remove
your paper's fancy formatting before posting it to scs.conference
(otherwise your message may have awkward line breaks and additional
characters).  In the major word processing programs like Word and
WordPerfect, all you need to do is go to the File menu and pull down to
"Save as." From the dropbox choose "Text only," "Text Export," "ASCII," or
"ASCII DOS Text". Name the file something like "scspaper.txt" and it will
be converted and saved as text-only (i.e., ASCII) format. Click on the
"attachment" button and select the text file that you prepared. Click on
the Send button and you're done!
 
For those of you who'd like to see what a paper looks like on
scs.conference, Jeremy Butler has been kind enough to post his 1993 SCS
conference paper on _Designing Women_ to scs.conference using both methods
(in the body of the message and as an attachment). Thanks Jeremy!
 
Note: These groups are not distributed to all of Usenet. They are only
accessible at news.tcf.ua.edu and, like the rest of the SCS Web site, are
a service of the Telecommunication and Film Department, the University of
Alabama.
 
If you have problems or questions, please contact Jim Castonguay at
[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
 
*IMPORTANT REMINDER*
 
SCS MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF CANADA SHOULD
BE REMINDED THAT THEY REQUIRE PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP FROM THEIR HOME
COUNTRIES.  FOR CITIZENS OF THE U.S., YOU MUST HAVE A VALID PASSPORT OR
A CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE (NOT A COPY).  A DRIVER'S LICENSE IS NOT
PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.  While U.S. citizens do not require a visa, citizens
of other countries may require them.  Please check immediately with the
Canadian embassy, consulate or high commission nearest you if you have
any questions regarding this.  Airlines will not allow you to board if you
lack proper travel documents.  Road or rail travellers may be refused
entry without proper identification.
 
______________
Jim Castonguay
UW-Milwaukee - English - Modern Studies
[log in to unmask] - www.uwm.edu/~jamesp
[log in to unmask] - www.cinemastudies.org
 
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