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WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 235
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) summer hockey in NE
by email@hidden (Jess Becker)
2) Tourney in Las Vegas
by email@hidden (Kristen M. Ede)
3) Re: Tourney in Las Vegas
by "Diane Edwards"
4) Admin: changes and improvements coming to plaidworks.....
by email@hidden (Chuq Von Rospach)
5) please help
by Lea and Robert Sanford
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: email@hidden (Jess Becker)
To: email@hidden
Subject: summer hockey in NE
Message-ID:
I just found out that there will be no Elite Europa Cup this summer.
Apparently there just wasn't enough demand--people didn't want to make an 8
week commitment. Europa Cup (the other division) is still on for the
summer, but since I'm going to coach one of the teams, I'm left looking for
a place to play.
If anyone knows of any summer hockey in New England (preferably near Boston
but I'm not picky), please let me know.
Thanks,
Jess Becker #6,
Cornell Women's Ice Hockey Team
1996 Ivy League Champions
email@hidden
It doesn't matter if your team has good players, it matters if your players
have a good team.
- Morag McPherson, Cornell #21
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:49:07 -0400
From: email@hidden (Kristen M. Ede)
To: email@hidden
Subject: Tourney in Las Vegas
Message-ID:
It has been rumoured here in Northwestern Ontario that there is a large
Woman's Hockey Tournament in Las Vegas each December. Several local teams
are very interested in this but I have been unable to find a contact
number/name to find out more information about it.
Please email me if anyone know anything about this tournament.
Thanks:)
Kristen
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:14:27 EDT
From: "Diane Edwards"
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Tourney in Las Vegas
Message-ID:
> From: email@hidden (Kristen M. Ede)
> It has been rumoured here in Northwestern Ontario that there is a large
> Woman's Hockey Tournament in Las Vegas each December. Several local teams
> are very interested in this but I have been unable to find a contact
> number/name to find out more information about it.
My team would also be interested in this tournament or any other ones
held in Fall/early winter for Senior B players. Thanks.
-Diane
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Diane Edwards
Dept. Horticultural Science, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:05:01 -0700
From: email@hidden (Chuq Von Rospach)
To: email@hidden, email@hidden,
Subject: Admin: changes and improvements coming to plaidworks.....
Message-ID:
As you all hopefully noticed, the twice-a-month help postings are back.
They've been missing for a while as I tried to rewrite the program that
does them to be more flexible and less obtrusive, and it's finally up
and running. Not only is the text completely rewritten, I'm now able to
customize it for each list, and I'm also able to stagger the postings
on different days -- last night was a one-time deal for those of you on
a number of lists. I'll be setting things up so that only a couple of
lists a night get the automatic postings, so that there are the huge
blocks of things on the 1st and 15th. Everyone got the same message,
but as time goes on, I'll be customizing things to fit each list (for
instance, the ONLINE-DRIVE folks will only see the admin mail once a
month, and it'll be much different and shorter....)
This is the first of what I plan to be a number of changes and
improvements here on Plaidworks coming up in the next few months. As
hockey season winds down and our real jobs mellow out a bit, we have
more time to work on things that have been planned for a while but
sitting around due to exhaustion and the Stanley Cup playoffs...
The first new thing you'll see, hopefully next week, is a World Wide
Web interface to all the mailing lists. This will allow you to use your
browser to subscribe and unsubcribe, get help, change to and from
DIGEST mode, access archives and do whatever you need to do involving
the lists without the learning curve of the current system. This first
version will be a bit rough, but the list access is running, which is
the important part.
I'd like to announce here that we will soon be creating some new mail
lists, as well as deleting some existing ones.
First, the additions: we have agreed once the Stanley Cup playoffs are
done to "adopt in" at least one existing mail list on an NHL hockey
team, and there might be a second down the road. I'm not mentioning the
names of the teams until all of the details are settled and the lists
are told of the change, but we'll soon be growing a bit. We've also
decided to add a mailing list for the Colorado Avalanche, so that it
will be available going into next season.
On the amateur side, we will be creating two lists similar to the
women-in-hockey list. One will be for hockey coaches at all levels, so
they can converse, compare notes and talk to their peers. The other
will be for hockey officials at all levels to do the same: referees,
linesmen and off-ice guys (no we will NOT allow people to come and
harrass the refs, and no, Barfy is NOT the List Mom).
And as to list deletions: we have decided that once the Turner Cup
playoffs are done, that we will be discontinuing the mailing lists for
all of the individual IHL teams. That was an experiment we tried this
year, and it simply hasn't worked. Some have as few as 10 subscribers
and zero traffic. The biggest lists have only sporadic traffic, and it
is all duplicated in the main IHL list -- so we'll be merging all of
that into a single IHL list again, and moving forward from there. I'm
sure this will upset a few of you, and we're sorry, but none of the
lists have developed enough of a community to sustain conversation, so
it doesn't make sense to continue it -- in fact, I think it creates
isolated pockets of people that are better served by the IHL list.
Other changes and enhancements: I've been working (sporadically) on
getting a second mail list server up and running. That's making some
progress, and I hope to have it fully on-line in the next couple of
weeks. The first mail list that will be created on it is discussed
below, but over the summer, some -- perhaps ALL (we don't know yet) of
the mail lists will migrate to the new server. We'll keep you well
informed in advance of any changes that might affect you. Adding this
new server will give us more capacity for lists, which we'll need given
the changes I discuss above, so it basically HAS to be on-line by the
start of hockey season next fall. Whether we expand our suite of lists
beyond that depends on how much capacity we find we have once the new
server is on-line. It's possible, but until we see what happens, I'm
not committing to anything else -- I want to make sure our current
services work right and don't get overloaded.
One other project of fairly major importance to us, and which some of
you will want to be involved in: I'm starting a project to completely
rewrite the documentation for the mail lists and the servers -- this
involves the bi-monthly automatic postings, all of the mail-bot
messages, the list introductory materials, server rules and
instructions. All of it. I'll be creating a special mail list just for
the discussion of the rewrite and the drafts of these documents. If
you're one of those people who'd like to have some say in the next
generation of these documents, please join the list when it's ready
(I'll send out another email at that time) and help us get all this
cleaned up and working right. The primary goal is to convert EVERYTHING
to World-Wide-Web format for easy browsing, and then using those
versions as a basis for text-only documents that can be sent via e-mail
as the current ones are. (half the trick, frankly, is to figure out how
to maintain one set of these docs for each of the 50 or so mail lists I
run, without them getting out ot sync, and without me going crazy
updating each set separately...)
My final main project for the summer-season is to get the archives in
usable shape and easily accessible via the World Wide Web (here's a
hint: if you're one of those people who still don't have WWW browser
access to things, you better get it. In another 6 months, you'll be
stuck at the equivalent of the 300-baud-modem stage of networking
without it. Not just here, but all over the Internet....) -- both via a
searchable archive and hopefully via fully-linked archives where you
can browse by subject, poster or date. The searchable archives are
definite (it's a matter of time). I'm hopeful I'll have the other
archive setup, also, but can't guarantee it yet.
Some of the WWW sites on plaidworks are being spiffed up, also. We've
refcently re-done the main entry point at
-- and I'm working on a new version of the plaidworks home page, my own
personal home page, and for the drop of the puck in the fall, there
will be an entirely NEW hockey web site at
-- I've got the design in
process, and it'll be very spiffy, much easier to use and navigate,
faster, and easier to maintain by us, so it'll be more up to date, as
well. Stay tuned, I think you'll really like it.
So that's what I'm doing on my summer vacation. By the time hockey
season fires up in the fall, things will be completely different here
at Plaidworks -- and much, much better. (and I'll be exhausted, but
what else is new? This is fun!)
Questions? Comments? Feedback? Suggestions? We're always interested in
what people think. don't be afraid to drop us a line -- you can mail
myself at , Laurie at ,
or both of us via the and
addresses. Don't be strangers.
And thanks for your support -- and for wanting to be part of our family
here. It's why we do this.
Chuq
--
Chuq Von Rospach Software Gnome and Internet Tweaker
Apple Solutions Marketing Webmaster
( +-+ )
Plaidworks Consulting
( +-+ )
"It was to be a journey that they would remember for a very, very long time."
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Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 19:41:27 +0000
From: Lea and Robert Sanford
To: Hockey List
Subject: please help
Message-ID:
As many of you may have guessed (if you have ever thought about it),
there is NO women's hockey in Houston, Texas. However, there is a very
prommising young woman, Sarah Puryear, currently playing on a boy's
midget team who desperately needs some advice. I hope someone on this
list can help her out.
Sarah also plays on my adult men's rec team. She is our star player (at
16 years old) and I told her I would write on her behalf since she is
without internet access.
Sarah recently returned from a USA Hockey developmental camp in Colorado
Springs. She said that after the first day, she was told she was the
number two pick to go to Lake Placid. Unfortuneately, after the camp
was over, she was told she would not go to Lake Placid because her play
was too timid. Not having ever played with women before (and not having
anyone in Houston to give her advice) Sarah had been afraid of being too
physical (and she can be VERY physical) and unfortunatly was percieved
as timid. (I have to wonder, why no one mentioned this to her DURING
the camp, since it was supposed to be instructional!?!)
Beyond the disappointment of not advancing this year, Sarah is most
concerned about her ability to attract a College scholarship.
Apparently, she is a gifted student but will need money to go to college
out of state. I would like information on two items:
1. What are the BEST camps available this summer? Obviously, travel
expenses are an issue since we are in Texas; Sarah will probably only be
able to afford one or two camps at best. She needs experience and good
coaching on playing the women's game.
2. What should Sarah be doing if she wants to play hockey on a college
scholarship? Most of us don't even know what colleges offer women's
hockey as a program, much less how to get on a team.
Many thanks for any and all advice. No piece of information is
insignificant--trust me, we need all the help we can get.
Lea Sanford
#7--Blue Team
Houston, Texas
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