WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 332

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Admin: Read me: Welcome cal-flames, and it's busy season!
	by Chuq Von Rospach 
  2) Seeking midwest women's tournaments
	by email@hidden
  3) Write to your Congressman or Entertainment Provider
	by email@hidden

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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 21:46:30 -0700
From: Chuq Von Rospach 
To: email@hidden, email@hidden,
Subject: Admin: Read me: Welcome cal-flames, and it's busy season!
Message-ID: 


Three quick notes from the Plaidworks List Moms...

First, we want to welcome the Calgary Flames mailing list, which we've
adopted in as it was losing it's previous home. The list went live last
night, and is now available for everyone to use. To those of you who
are new to Plaidworks, welcome! We hope you enjoy it here. To the rest
of you, please make our new friends welcome, and feel free to join in
and talk about the latest team to join our family.

Second, please be aware that I will be taking the current hockey pages
down Sunday night, in preparation for an entirely new hockey site
that's coming to plaidworks. If there's anything you want on the
current site, grab it before I remove the current pages, or you'll have
to wait until the new ones debut. I was hoping for an October 1 debut,
but things have been a bit too busy at work, eating into evenings again
recently, and a needed software upgrade I had to wait for only arrived
today, and it'll take me a couple of days to integrate and test.

I think you'll like the changes -- a lot more functionality, a lot more
information, a lot more neat stuff, and it doesn't look like it was put
together in a weekend (which the previous one was). And all the dead
links have been removed, and a lot of new stuff added. Stay tuned. I'm
still hoping to have it ready for opening night...

Third, and finally, it's time for the annual reminder: we're now headed
rapidly into the busy season for this server, with 20 hockey oriented
lists and a lot of discussion going on. We're now averaging 300
messages a day distributed to the various lists, five or six days a
week, and we will from now until May. That's a *lot* of e-mail.

This has two implications to keep in mind. One is that if you signed up
to a number of lists when the list volume was slow, you may find it
difficult to keep up with the increased volume. If you do, try
switching to digest mode, which many folks find a lot easier to deal
with. If you still have problems with the volume, you'll have to choose
which lists are important to you and cut the rest. DO NOT GET ON THE
LISTS and start complaining to people to shut up. Every year, we have
one or two yahoos try this when the lists get busy, and every year,
Laurie and I pull out the cattle prod and have to do riot control. The
rule to remember is this: the lists will NOT change themselves for the
personal preferences of any individual -- and anyone who tries will
find themselves looking like a guy staring at the south end of a
northern-bound buffalo stampede. Save yourself the hassle, and Laurie
and I the hassle of cleaning up after you...

The other impact of the message volume is delivery delays. All this
email generates a LOT of bytes flowing back and forth. Plaidworks is
first and foremost a labor of love -- it's not funded by big companies
(it's also not HIDING from them hoping the bosses don't notice!) -- our
link is fast compared to modems, but not *that* fast. We can only shove
so many emails out an hour, and the rest have to wait.

This means delays in delivery of 2-4 hours are common during prime
time, and 6-8 hours on peak usage days when all hell breaks loose on
one or more of the sites (imagine if, say, they trade Dougie Gilmour
and Mats Sundin for Ed Belfour and Denis Savard. This server might just
implode... *grin*). Please be patient, and don't start reposting things
if you don't see them in ten minutes. We're doing the best we can given
what we charge people for using our site. And if anyone wants to fix
this and pay for our T1 line, just drop us email...

For those that aren't sure what lists are available here, this is a quick list:

NHL teams supported: Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Colorado
Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Los Angeles Kings, toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa
Senators, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks (three
lists with varying topics).

Other hockey lists: Bay-Area-Hockey (SF Bay area amateurs), Hockey-Chat
(for things that don't fit anywhere else), Hockey-Coaches,
Hockey-Referees, IHL (international Hockey League), Roller Hockey
International, and Women in Hockey.

As always, if you have thoughts, comments, suggestions, requests,
complaints, or anything else, feel free to drop us a line.
 will reach both myself and Laurie. If you're
looking for a site, or for the list documentation, use the link
, which will get you connected to
the list controls and documentation suite.

If you don't have World Wide Web access, you really need to get it. the
net is rapidly getting to the point that being browserless is like
being a deaf person at a rock concert -- you can do it, but you'll miss
a lot of the best parts. But for the browserless, your entry point into
finding this stuff is to send e-mail to , which
will send you back a file with how to get things done and find the
various information files we have here.

To those thyat are new here, welcome. To those that are still here,
we're glad you find this place worth staying around. Above all, we try
to build a place that *we* find fun to use and informative, because we
feel that's the best way to build a home for others to use and enjoy.

Chuq Von Rospach, Head List Mom


Laurie Sefton, Head List Mom's boss






--
             Chuq Von Rospach            Software Gnome and Internet Tweaker
                     Apple Solutions Marketing Webmaster
     ( +-+ )

                            Plaidworks Consulting
          ( +-+ )

One List Mom to rule them all, one List Mom to find them,
One List Mom to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.



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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:58:15 -0400
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Subject: Seeking midwest women's tournaments
Message-ID: 

The Ohio Senior Flames (playing at a Senior D level) are looking for
tournaments to enter in the midwest area.  Last year we played in numerous
Midwest and Canada tournaments and had a great time! ["Hello" to our main
rivals -- The Michigan Tournadoes!  No fighting this year!]  Last year we had
access to tournament info via USA Hockey, however this year they do not have
tournament lists (quite baffling!)

Does anyone have information they can mail or forward regarding tournament
dates, costs, and level of play?  We have info already on the Icebox.  We are
primarily looking for tournaments within a 4 hour driving range, and are open
to suggestions in Detroit, Ontario, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Columbus (Hello Ohio
State!)... and anywhere else in the Midwest area.

Please respond soon, so we are not shut out of tournaments, and can organize
our season sooner.  Send info to email@hidden  (Lori Switaj) so I can
pass it on to our tournament person.  

Also.. Anyone interested in visiting Cleveland for a game or two?  Our team,
which is fairly new, has been getting some good press lately, and we'd like
to keep the women-in-hockey momentum going! (Plus, Cleveland is an
outrageously fun city!)

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:12:04 -0400
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Subject: Write to your Congressman or Entertainment Provider
Message-ID: 

Mike Machnick was kind enough to respond to my request for women's coverage
both personally to me and to women-in-hockey.  While his staff and facilities
are limited there are others out there who are better endowed.

Using the links page in  uscollegehockey.com  you can access other links and
tell them you want better coverage.  Just as the letter from California
pointed out unless you are directly in the loop you have no idea what is out
there.  The media has the capicity to provide that coverage to inform you.  

A good place to start would be ESPN's web site.  You can tell them how you
feel about the coverage of women's hockey by e-mailing them at
  szsuggestions-L@
starwave.com.  They laughed at women's basketball, now it is one of the
hottest ticket items on campus.  It's not about whether you ever played,
 when you watch you do not relieve your playing days as much as relieving the
emotions associated with good competition.

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