Letters to the Zone



So Many Contributors Start this Way

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 02:03:21 -0800
From: MARJORIE LUESEBRINK

Dear Enterzone Folks--

What a great magazine! What lovely things! I just finished Christy Sheffield Sanford's *Bigamy in the Desert*--this is just the kind of thing that makes the web sing like a whale in the depths--reverberating across oceans. Thanks! Marjorie Luesebrink


Unguided Tour of Your Homework

Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 17:18:07 -0800
From: Hulett Family

I HAVE A QUESTION. IN MY SCIENCE CLASS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT HOW THE BODIES AT MT.VESUVIUS BECAME PRESERVED. IS THEIR ANY WAY YOU CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR ME? THANK YOU SO MUCH!PLEASE GIVE ME A RESPONCE BY DECEMBER 13,1997.


Writer's Guide for the Web

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 03:43:10 -0600
From: Mason West

I happen to be assembling a Web page of writers' guidelines which led me to the serendipitous discovery of Enterzone. I've looked at a lot of Zines in the past few weeks, but nothing comes close to the beautiful exploitation of Web multimedia that Enterzone does. Congratulations on putting together something so wonderful. Since I am a writer I'll be racking my brains to create something worthy to submit...you'll be hearing from me soon.

By the way, here is the URL for the writers' guidelines:

     http://www.eskimo.com/~masonw/WebGuide/index.html

Since this isn't a zine, but the beginning of a guide on how to go about writing for zines (I just began this project a few weeks ago), I don't know if you would have a place for a reciprocal link -- but if you do, I'd appreciate one.

Please keep me posted as you update Enterzone. I tried to subscribe to your announcement newsletter, but it didn't seem to be working properly.

Thanks.

-- Mason West
   mason@pobox.com
   http://www.pobox.com/~mason

We'll add your resource next time we update the Other eZines page. Oh, and we've fixed the bug on the subscription page (we just moved the site and the location of the CGI bin, not to mention the flavor of Unix, was different on the new system).

--xian


Dear Abby This Ain't

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 20:57:56 -0700
From: rolvig

Subject: VirtuallyMarried

very nice little story


Jules Siegel Replies

From: Jules Siegel
Subject: Re: bravo

Wow! The best written and most accurate review yet! One small error: I've lived in Cancun almost 15 years, not 25, in Mexico since December 3, 1981. It does feel like 25 years sometimes, though.

The reviews for Lineland are really quite exciting. I'm glad that people are beginning to see the whole story. Believe me when I tell you that leaving the United States and moving to Mexico and going back to graphic design has been quite a saga. Maintaining my political integrity wasn't easy. There were great personal costs to pay.

A review like this makes it all worth it.

Many thanks to you and Briggs Nisbet. This was a great thrill.


Meeting In at the Happy Table

From: "BEDREDDIN GODEK"
Subject: Good afternoon Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:48:47 +0300

Dear In,
Hi.
I love your work And Enterzone. And I am out of words.
Hope to meet again at a happy table one day.
makrodan


Mash Note for Ian Campbell

From: "Robert Meriwether"
Subject: Collages in Enterzone
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:23:04 -0400

Kudos.

I like seeing the collage form in electronic media, though it does put a premium on the use of a fast modem. Consider this an unabashed fan letter from one who has real appreciation for collage, and one whose appreciation has heretofore been reserved for more traditional, paper-based versions of the same.

Thanks for the enlightenment, and "Cc:" kudos to Christian for putting your work in the Zone.


Past Contributor Hooked by Virtually Married

From: "Lisa Solod"

Subject: VirtuallyMarried

Loved the column. My sister and her girlfriend are ring shopping right now. But then we--finally--have a cool family about all this (it took awhile. Not for me or my other sister, but for the 'rents).

Gotta point this out: parents, plural, does NOT have an apostrophe. This is my own particular bugaboo but I hate to see grammatical mistakes such as that in a lit mag on or off the net. Plurals in general do not have apostrophes. Only possessives do. Wish the editors at enterzone had caught it for you!

Cheers. (a fellow, former, contributor)


Roswell Still Controversial

Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 08:17:35 -0700
From: Walter

Re: Article on Roswell

Bill Cassel states in his article on the Roswell UFO incident that it is strange that the Airforce would not tell us about weather balloons in 1960 because they were surely not top secret by then.

What was secret was not the balloons, but what they were doing with them. Using them to carry instrumentation aloft that was designed to detect Soviet nuclear testing. Much of the work done in that area is still classified today. Project Mogul was declassified because it's method of using a then theorized "accoustical conduit" formed by temperature layers in the upper atmosphere is no longer practical or useful.

Just like rockets are not classified today, many of the payloads still are.

Walter


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