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johnfowles · 05-21-2004, 11:02 AM

quote:Originally posted by Cathy:
If John was in the corner consuming some kind of beverage, you can bet your bottom dollar it was Guinness Stout.
Wrong I rarely drink Guinness and having once ventured to Cork prefer Murphys anyway
Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

The past week has as expected seen a large number of Newsgroup threads and Corfid Topics
devoted to reactions to "Harmony" mostly extremely enthousiastic
In particular long-time no-poster young Anne Aprzy gave a very well received Newsgroup review at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=Averc.51810%24aM3.49389%40newss vr29.news.prodigy.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26gro up%3Da lt.music.lightfoot
Young corfid poster Dunkin' Michael Douglas the thurd
asked "What's with the excitement" at:-
in topic http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002285.html
reminding some of us of earlier thrills upon finding a hitherto unknown new album release and the scrabble to remove the wrapping to get at the new sacred vinyl inside
Wes steele brought up the subject of Manaus on corfid and I was able to provide some historical and geographical detail at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002279.html
I guess that last Friday most fans were too busy playing their new cd to bother with the chat room as a disappointingly small number (eight) met to discuss "Harmony" and play it in sync.
At least one person (Walter Stoneborder) admitted to having a problem getting in
blaming his new computer which "is non-compatible with Java and MIRC." but omitted as I had asked to e-mail me with details of his software, A point of clarification is in order
I have provided three distinct ways to access the chat room:-
1. the recommended mIRC
using the link that you'll have to copy and paste
irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/gordonlightfootchat
that is a special type of URL that magically opens mIRC if you have it installed already
2. the java applet that downloads from my site:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/chat
3 the javascript link provided by the IRC server http://www.dilexnet.net/irc/webchat/...nlightfootchat
I previously failed to emphasize that Javascript and Java applets are not the same thing although for internet security reasons it is possible to configure your browser to ignore both which might be the case with Walter's setup
so let's try again this evening at 9 PM eST or for those in the UK still looking out for the postman (mailman) 2 AM BST

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited May 21, 2004).]

05-21-2004, 11:02 AM	#7
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by Cathy: If John was in the corner consuming some kind of beverage, you can bet your bottom dollar it was Guinness Stout. Wrong I rarely drink Guinness and having once ventured to Cork prefer Murphys anyway Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com The past week has as expected seen a large number of Newsgroup threads and Corfid Topics devoted to reactions to "Harmony" mostly extremely enthousiastic In particular long-time no-poster young Anne Aprzy gave a very well received Newsgroup review at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=Averc.51810%24aM3.49389%40newss vr29.news.prodigy.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26gro up%3Da lt.music.lightfoot Young corfid poster Dunkin' Michael Douglas the thurd asked "What's with the excitement" at:- in topic http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002285.html reminding some of us of earlier thrills upon finding a hitherto unknown new album release and the scrabble to remove the wrapping to get at the new sacred vinyl inside Wes steele brought up the subject of Manaus on corfid and I was able to provide some historical and geographical detail at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002279.html I guess that last Friday most fans were too busy playing their new cd to bother with the chat room as a disappointingly small number (eight) met to discuss "Harmony" and play it in sync. At least one person (Walter Stoneborder) admitted to having a problem getting in blaming his new computer which "is non-compatible with Java and MIRC." but omitted as I had asked to e-mail me with details of his software, A point of clarification is in order I have provided three distinct ways to access the chat room:- 1. the recommended mIRC using the link that you'll have to copy and paste irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/gordonlightfootchat that is a special type of URL that magically opens mIRC if you have it installed already 2. the java applet that downloads from my site:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/chat 3 the javascript link provided by the IRC server http://www.dilexnet.net/irc/webchat/...nlightfootchat I previously failed to emphasize that Javascript and Java applets are not the same thing although for internet security reasons it is possible to configure your browser to ignore both which might be the case with Walter's setup so let's try again this evening at 9 PM eST or for those in the UK still looking out for the postman (mailman) 2 AM BST ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited May 21, 2004).]