I have just spent 4 days trying to download the new Prodigy Internet in hopes that it would enable me to get into the live chat...last night I finally finished...went into the Pemberly Drawing Room and was told I need to download a plug-in with magnus internallcgi??????Does anyone know if this is right and if so...how do I get it? Linda in GA.

Oh dear, Linda. You are having a time. If the Progigy browser required this plug in, Prodigy ought to provide it. Get indignant with the help staff there and tell them how long you have been futzing with trying to access this simple site with their stupid browser. I think you can also now use Netscape or MSIE with Prodigy service. When you write to help, ask about how to do that as well. When you finally get in, we'll have a party.

Amy, I will give it a try....I'll get my party hat...just hope Prodigy doesn't pop my balloon.......

Linda, please let me know if you find a cure for the Prodigy woes. I am currently using both Prodigy and AOL but find the only difference is the error message. Do you have trouble getting into any of the topics, especially after "old is new" stikes.

Okay, I have installed Prodigy and tested it out, and I have bad news. Apparently Prodigy connects you to the internet through a proxy server. A regular internet connection (from a local ISP) would be Your Computer ---> Remote Server ---> Your Computer On Prodigy, the proxy server adds an interim step: Your Computer ---> Prodigy Proxy Server ---> Remote Server ---> Prodigy Proxy Server ---> Your Computer So anything that you try to get from a server on the internet must first pass through Prodigy's server on its way to you. Unfortunately, Prodigy's server is not set up for calling a CGI script directly. You can call up a web page with a form that uses CGI, but the chat room calls the script directly, not through a form. When I asked Prodigy about this, all they would tell me is that Prodigy offers some nice chat rooms. Duh! (which, BTW, they do by launching an IRC program) Of course, the guy I spoke to didn't even know what a CGI script was.... I can't think of a way to get around this problem. Even if I changed it so that the first form you fill out to get into the room is actually an html document, once you are in the room, by necessity it has to call the script directly to refresh the messages. So, unfortunately, my only recommendation right now is, unless there is content on Prodigy that you feel you would miss, you should probably get a local Internet Provider. There are tons of them, just about everywhere. Here's a link to a list of providers: http://thelist.iworld.com/

Thanks for looking into it, Kaf. At least now we know.

Yes, many thanks. I am a recreational user of this machine and not given that much flexibilty in deciding components/software. Still, I hope to experiment with others.

I add my thanks...Does this info include the "new" and "improved" program called Prodigy Internet (the most up to date program says Prodigy)???? I am such a novice using computers and Prodigy has been so user friendly (until now!) it may take a step forward to plunge into something else in order to get the full advantage of the group....I must muster up the courage...!! Linda in Georgia

Linda -- I fully understand your reluctance re new computer software, etc. But as many of us here have learned, we can and do conquer many of these technologies. Good luck, and hope to see you at Pemberley soon. :-)

Terry, Amy, and Henry, Could you read the posts on thread #43 from 2/3/97 and 2/4/97 if you haven't yet? Please? We would like to add the "copyright 1996, 1997" phrase to the header at the top of the thread, next to where it says "New P&P Scenes" as an explicit copyright statement regarding all the creative writings/writers represented on this conference thread. (I'm a newbie, so haven't the know-how or power to add it myself!) Thanks from all of us on #43, Cecily (panache)

Ok -- I've added it in in the only place where there seemed to be room for it -- namely, the slot where Cecily's name used to be! As I was telling Ann, nowadys copyright is pretty much automatic, and I think you don't necessarily surrender much legal rights by not including a copyright statement (but, on the other hand, it never hurts...)

Great News! All of those addicts who have Prodigy service who have not been able to access the Pemberely Drawing Room help is on the way! I have been working to get Microsoft Internet Explorer installed on my computer to use as my personal web browser so that I might access the chat group....after 3 weeks of calling both Prodigy and Microsoft...I found a message on my E Mail this morning informing me that in one week the new Prodigy Internet service will be switching to Microsoft Internet Explorer as th ir primary web browser!!!! How or why it has happened I do not know...all I know is that for $19.95 it will be unlimited access and both the Prodigy Classic service and Prodigy Internet...which will be able to get into the Pemberley!!! Finally!!

All right Linda! Party time when you finally get in.

Mon cher Henri, Merci beaucoup pour votre effort. "Copyright 1996,1997" est parfait! Cecily

Amy and Henri: Sorry to be back so soon, but upon reading some of the latest scenes at my topic #43, I believe we are beginning to "exceed the limit" for PG13 at this conference (as well as exceed the length for a topic before it is moved to austenarchives conference). It is probable you already were planning to relocate #43 outside to another conference soon; if so, do so ASAP with my blessing (part to archives, part to --?). Appreciatively, Cecily

Thanks, Cecily. It is next on the list. Actually, I was trying work through whether or not Ann's new page could serve as the archive. Any thoughts on that?

Actually, I was trying work through whether or not Ann's new page could serve as the archive. Any thoughts on that? I like this idea. You could put the Writers' Guild in your header links. And we could start a fresh "Scenes" topic for posting of further stories and commentary.

It's the commentary -- especially the praise, since every writer needs that! -- which I don't want to lose entirely. Any ideas on that, anybody?

Amy and Myretta- I like this idea. You could put the Writers' Guild in your header links. And we could start a fresh "Scenes" topic for posting of further stories and commentary. Option 1: Scenes without commentary reviews put into Ann's page; original topic thread (scenes with commentary/reviewa) in AustenArchives; new additipons to topic #43 only if PG13; other New Scenes conference outside for slightly "hotter" scenes (tasteful R?). Option 2: Same as above, except all new scenes out in another New Scenes conference outside P&P2 (with a copyright and request for PG13-tasteful R content). Actually, I hate to use R as a term at all, in that it allows any writers who post to include scenes of violence, etc., if they be nonAustenites in content and style... Option 3: Tell writers to direct us to their own webpages of scenes! Option 4: Go watch P&P2 again and forget this prequel/sequel jazz. (I feel like a mother turtle who laid a million eggs in the sand of #43 and now they're all starting to hatch...) ;-)

I just want to add, that if something gets racier than my arbitrary taste would feel comfortable with, I will not post it to the guild. So far, nothing has crossed that line, so I can not say where that line is.

Cecily, You have, indeed,hatched quite a few eggs here. I'm inclined to think that starting a separate conference for "hotter" scenes might encourage "hotter" scenes. I think we do quite well, here, keeping things acceptable to the General Public. Your happy band of authors seems to have reached an agreeable temperature and is keeping it regulated. If the need arises, we could always direct the writers to drool and start a topic there. I also think that Amy has enough conferences on her h nds at the moment.

As Darcy would say, You are perfectly right. It is entirely up to Amy, this being Amyland. Whatever she decides is law to me. I was merely and halfjestingly responding to her query above for others' input.

Oh oh.

Happy Birthday, Carolyn!

I really meant for that to go in Happy Birthday.