What Happened to this Web Site? There will be MORE Disruptions
Imagine my surprise, gentle visitor (at least
I hope you are), when I went to check the MUM site Saturday and it wasn't there!
In its place was the home page of my internet
service provider, Erols. After many phone calls and many e-mails someone
promised me that my deleted Internet protocol number - that number connects
the mum.org to my files on the Erols server - would be restored on
Tuesday morning, making everything OK; but then the magic date was pushed
to Wednesday morning when the fella at the end of the phone line said he
had forgotten to do it - but still nothing happened. Who
deleted it, and why, I don't know. Nobody fessed
up.
Surprisingly, late Wednesday, 22 December, this
site popped up again, released by the Internet arachnid, but still caught
in the Web. Which is where it should be.
But it was too late. Today, Wednesday, 22 December,
I switched my Web host from Erols to AT&T. This will mean more disruption
in the next few days and your e-mail messages might not reach me. If that
happens, please try again early next week, when I hope to have your MUM
up - permanently.
It's been a very bad experience.
Letters to Your MUM
Under New this
week, at the top of the page, I will start
to answer questions like this one, although this specific one is a bruiser;
the writer may have guessed right:
Hi,
Interesting site.
Went there when a friend who is not into computers asked me what I
thought women as far back as cave women did when they were on their periods.
Just let it run down their legs? I told her I'd look for it. Can you answer
the question about what was done that far back?
Thanks
Actually, the book she mentions is already there:
Hello,
I think your site is very interesting. Thanks for your contribution
to our repressed culture...: )
I have noticed that an incredibly important work is missing from your
information. I urge you to read "Blood,
Bread and Roses: How menstruation created the world," by Judy
Grahn. This is probably the most important book written on the history
of menstrual lore ever.
Best Regards,
See the video a
friend comes to visit:
Hey, Harry,
Thank you for reviewing our film on your
Web site:
http://www.mum.org/olnws111.htm
I was wondering if you could please add a link to our site from your
review. The best page to link for this would be
We'd appreciate it if you could do this, but if not, your site still
rules!
Thanks,
Mark
Mark David
Kingsize Entertainment
VP of Technology
http://www.kingsize-ent.com/
It's ABOUT TIME! Is the turn of the millennium
REALLY just weeks away? This site has a good explanation - it walks
you through, with tables yet!
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory [Washington, D.C., the timekeeper
for the U.S.A.] the end of the second millennium
and the beginning of the third will be reached on January 1, 2001 [not
2000!]
This date is based on a calendar created in 526 A.D. by Dennis the
Diminutive, the head of a Roman monastery who forged a common calendar
from the divergent dating systems of his day.
Help Wanted: This Museum Needs a
Public Official For Its Board of Directors
Your MUM is doing the paper work necessary to become eligible to receive
support from foundations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. To achieve
this status, it helps to have a American public official - an elected or
appointed official of the government, federal, state or local - on its board of directors.
What public official out there
will support a museum for the worldwide culture of
women's health and menstruation?
Eventually I would also like to entice people experienced in the law,
finances and fund raising to the board.
Do You Have Irregular Menses?
If so, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome
[and here's a support association for it].
Jane Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, asked
me to tell you that
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome
(PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of
reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility
and is linked to diabetes.
Learn more about current
research on PCOS at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University
- or contact Jane Newman.
If you have fewer than six
periods a year, you may be eligible to participate
in the study!
© 1999 Harry Finley. It is illegal
to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium
without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations
to hfinley@mum.org