The Austen conference is no longer active but here are some great old discussions you may want to review. Current discussions still take place -- only at a new address, in the Republic of Pemberley:

http://www.pemberley.com

Topic Resps Subject
   27    26 Proposed new conferences on the Spring (terry)
   39    57 welcome wagon.. help respond to folks inquiries (terry)
  131   197 The Spring as a whole and pointers to other topics (terry)
  214    14 What did you think of Emma Thompson's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility? (rebecca)
  215     2 Darcy's moment of happiness (joanna)
  216     1 Emma Miramax (Undertaker)
  217     6 Austen vs Heyer (christa)
  219    78 Spring Bandwidth Crisis (sprin5)
  220     0 Mr. Darcy takes a Wife and the Jane Austen explosion (terry)
  221     0 austen in the news (cfadm)