NEW RESOURCE
      Dragon of Nexus has generously given us WebSpace. Whether we are able to use the name 'Scribble' or not, I'm hoping to turn this area into a place where Internet Scribblers can still hear news of FidoNet Scribblers and vice versa.
      Nexus Prose already contains much good work which originated here - along with some terrific material that originated elsewhere. Not everything that is submitted, however, is of sufficient quality to warrant a place on the 'Prose' site even when it is certainly good enough for a wider audience than it can have within the Echo. You deserve some kind of show casing and publication, and at present, the option of publishing a hard copy anthology is not available to me.

IDEAS THAT GROW
      In the beginning I think we intended to keep archives of the poetry posted in Scribble on the internet site, so that for loss of a disc a .zip file might survive, and the record might remain in tact. The idea has since grown considerably.
      It is intended to make the area a place where such essays as Tim's on how to publish poetry, may be available to those on the InterNet. As well as, with copyright permission, an overview of Scribble excellence, and an online anthology of great poets. If it seems good to you, I would like to post the monthly 'Review' on the Net as well as here, and to ask permission of some of those who post on the Net, to repost their work here. This will not be a 'gate', nor will it be a shared message area or any such thing, for the actual contact between the two areas will be through an individual (me, but not necessarily solely, me). It will also provide a way for poets in this area to speak to a wider audience than is usually available to them, and to test the water, so to speak, before submitting their work for publication. I have not yet given up the idea of 'hard copy' anthologies of work 'made in the echo'.

REGARDING OLD FRIENDS
      In this way we may be able to regain contributions from such sorely missed individuals as Jim Stewart, Craig Parkes, Gary Shingles, Darrin Hutchinson, Ted Chapman and the like, and they may be able to keep track of us and our doings. Not only through cross posting of the reviews, but, I hope, through some of you adding to the content by your own reactions to our monthly doings and by your adding to your poems along with C&CC Welcome something simple like CPWelcome (cross posting). Someone may think of a more elegant way to do this.
      I know of some people who used to read the echo reasonably frequently, but who will now not have the access to do so. I would like at least, to make the monthly review available to them, and perhaps such poems as are mentioned with it. To that end, I should like permission from each of the poets mentioned in the review, to cross post the poems mentioned in this 'Review'. 

FEEDBACK
      I would really appreciate your feedback, reactions and commentaries on this scheme of mine.
      The last thing we need is to stagnate. 
The trick will be to find ways to reach out, without losing that sense of community, which seems to be essential to our sharing the results of our own 'creative risk'. 

warm regards
alice thorpe

4 February, 1999
(on the net edition)