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Dear Inkshedders:

Thanks, Russ, for the inclusive answer.

Hold off on ordering shoes! I am gathering evidence to present to CIRA, 
which registers .ca domain names, to protest the travesty of the Inkshed 
name's misuse. It's possible the shoe site will even be taken down. 
CASLL still owns the inkshed.ca domain until June 2019, though another 
domain registrar in Kolkata somehow "sold" it to the shoe business. This 
happened because the redirect set by the previous web provider, from 
inkshed. ca to casdw-acr.ca/resources/casllinkshed-archives/ 
<https://casdw-acr.ca/resources/casllinkshed-archives/>, expired with 
our web contract in June 2018. The search engines were just starting to 
learn that URL when the shoes jumped in.

As it happens, the WLN blog site is about to publish a piece on Inkshed 
and Canadian writing centres that I hope will bring people to the 
archives to re-read some of the fine Inkshed articles. I'll send a note 
to this list when the piece appears.

Carl, the article you mention is indeed part of the online archive, 
starting on page 2 at 
casdwacr.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/inkshednewsletter19-3-2002-spring.pdf 
<https://casdwacr.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/inkshednewsletter19-3-2002-spring.pdf>. 
The problem of finding and indexing specific pieces remains, especially 
with PDFs. My advice in the March 2018 announcement was to find at least 
your own articles by date, and update your lists.

I agree that Kathy's idea of a wikipedia page is a brilliant way to get 
the Inkshed name connected to the archive site, and eventually indexed 
by search engines. Russ is certainly the right person to draft that page.

Looking forward to the next developments,

Margaret.
<https://casdwacr.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/inkshednewsletter19-3-2002-spring.pdf.>


On 12/10/2018 7:47 PM, Russell Hunt wrote:
>
> Let me try to respond to a number of emails in one, to avoid causing 
> unnecessary RSI . . .
>
> Doug says he thinks it's good to have the newsletters accessible, but 
> says that's already happening: on the other hand, Carl says he 
> couldn't find his own article in it, looking for it specifically. I 
> think the issue is practical accessibility, and right now, where it is 
> on the CASDW site, it's accessible but not exactly findable. It's like 
> being on the library shelf but not in the catalog. I think that's the 
> point Natasha makes, and Carolyn agrees with (as do I).
>
> Kathy makes what I think is a brilliant suggestion: a wikipedia entry. 
> I am (or anyway was at one time) a wikipedia editor. I propose to 
> explore that and draft an entry, inviting other inkshedders to become 
> editors (or exercise their editorship) to help. Not sure how quickly 
> that can happen, because I'm off for Scotland and Ireland for a couple 
> of weeks on Tuesday, and my dance card for the next few days is 
> filling up, but I'll take a run at it.
>
> I'm puzzled by Lois' posting, but on the assumption that it was 
> intended for me and went to the list in error (like Brenda's signoff 
> message), I'll suggest it be ignored on the list.
>
> I'd like to reiterate (contra Doug) that I think the archive of 
> CASLL-L is itself an important resource. Yes, the postings on it are 
> rather like inksheds, in that they were situational and thus narrow 
> and perhaps intended to be forgotten once used, like inksheds or 
> conversation; on the other hand it's a record of where ideas arose and 
> developed, and when, at least after 1995. As a LISTSERV archive, it's 
> searchable by date and topic and poster, and I think is sort of like a 
> steamer trunk full of correspondence, except there's an index on the 
> cover. I think it's worth trying to make sure it survives and is 
> accessible (at least until climate change floods all the servers . . . )
>
> I also think a bibliography of inkshed-related publications would be a 
> useful resource, and might become part of a wikipedia entry. But 
> that's a more ambitious project than I want to think about on a Friday 
> night.
>
> Thank you to everybody who replied.
>
> -- Russ
>
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