now we are 401 strong (458)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Tue, 14 Mar 89 19:55:09 EST


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 720. Tuesday, 14 Mar 1989.

Date: 14 March 1989
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>

Dear Colleagues:

The membership list of Humanist today exceeded for the first time 400
entries. The actual size of the membership is in fact much larger, since
several of the "members" are groups of people, some of indefinite size.
These are in almost all cases explicitly named on the list as "Humanists
at x", where x is the name of a university, city or region.

The major change I have detected in Humanist as its size has increased
is the greater tendency to a diversity of topics, questions, and
answers. My strategy for keeping the number of messages to a minimum
each day has been to group them by subject or type. This greater
diversity occasionally makes such groupings difficult. I would like to
know from the membership (again, for those of you who remember) if
reducing the number of messages per day by grouping related
contributions together is a desirable goal. I must be candid at the same
time as playing the humble questioner, however. The only way I can
manage Humanist is to be very efficient, and so any preference of the
membership will have to be matched against considerations of my own
survival!

I would also like to know, especially from the newer members, if you
think that Humanists should continue to be sent all of the biographical
files when they first join. Since I started sending biographies to new
members, the number of files has more than doubled. I have persisted in
doing this because I thought that otherwise the biographies would never
be read by most people. No one has objected, but I wonder what suffering
has been endured in silence. I realize that survivors tend to
believe in the ordeal they have survived.

Here follows the latest membership list.

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janus@AGNES.STOLAF.EDU Louis Janus
C60903@AINUNI01 Josef Wallmannsberger
ENG309@ALBNY1VX Ted Jennings
MALYMAN@AMHERST Mary Ann Lyman
LB0Q@ANDREW Leslie Burkholder
CHISH@ARIZRVAX David Chisholm
CJOHNSON@ARIZRVAX Christopher Johnson
LANGEN@ARIZRVAX Terry Langendoen
OWEN@ARIZRVAX David Owen
AOJXW@ASUACAD Jude Wang
ATDXB@ASUACAD Dan Brink
ATPMB@ASUACAD Pier Baldini
F12016@BARILAN Chaim Milikowsky
MASSIRERM@BAYLOR Mary Massirer
CNNMJ@BCVMS M. J. Connolly
ONOMATA@BENGUS Ephraim Nissan
CHOUEKA@BIMACS Yaacov Choueka
PWILLETT@BINGVAXC Perry Willett
ANDERSON@BRANDEIS Ivy Lee Anderson
BURT@BRANDEIS John Burt
DURAND@BRANDEIS David Durand
GIAMPAPA@BRANDEIS Joe Giampapa
JOHNSTON@BRANDEIS Patricia A. Johnston
EL403012@BROWNVM George P. Landow
HI710008@BROWNVM Tim Harris
HUMANDST@BROWNVM Humanists at Brown
ST401742@BROWNVM Timothy Seid
HAMESSE@BUCLLN11 Jacqueline Hamesse
THOMDOC@BUCLLN11 CETEDOC Belgium
WORDS@BUCLLN11 Robert Hogenraad
ECHUCK@BYUADMIN Chuck Bush
JONES@BYUADMIN Randall Jones
DONWEBB@CALSTATE Don Webb
MTRILEY@CALSTATE Mark Timothy Riley
verbrugghe@CANCER Gerald P. Verbrugghe
ABROOK@CARLETON A. Brook
laplante@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Benoit Laplante
feld@CCM.UMANITOBA.CA Michael Feld
H_JOHANSSON%USE.UIO.UNINETT@CERNVAX Stig Johansson
BJORNDAS@CLARGRAD Sterling Bjorndahl
HARDERR@CLARGRAD Raymond G. Harder
YOUNGC@CLARGRAD Charles M. Young
spqr@CM.SOTON.AC.UK Sebastian Rahtz
RUDMAN@CMPHYS Joseph Rudman
mffgkts@CMS.UMRCC.AC.UK Tony Smith
ecl6das@CMS1.LEEDS.AC.UK Donald Spaeth
cll6wfo@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK William F. Oleske
lnp6ttld@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK Lee Davidson
incoming-humanist@COLUMBIA.EDU Humanists at Columbia
RKENNR@CONU1 Roger Kenner
ST5@CORNELLA Christopher Stuart
g270@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK Jeremy Fox
m090@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK John Schostak
m110@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK Beverley Labbett
s200@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK John Paul Goy Roper
WADE@CRNLGSM Wade Schuette
sdm@CS.BROWN.EDU Scott Meyers
epkelly@CS.TCD.IE Elizabeth Dowse
humanist-mail@CSD360B.ERIM.ORG Humanists at ERIM
FLAHERTY@CTSTATEU Thomas B. Flaherty
rutherford@CTSTATEU John Rutherford
DILELLA@CUA Alexander A. Di Lella
MCCARTHY@CUA William J. McCarthy
23scullion@CUA Jim Scullion
lowry@CUNIXC.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Anita Lowry
DAGLC@CUNYVM David Gillison
JEFHC@CUNYVM Julie Falsetti
JQRBH@CUNYVM Joseph Raben
KAEBH@CUNYVM Klaus E. Aichele
EJGCU@CUVMA Ellen Germain
AJUUS@CUVMB Adam Kucznetsov
MLAOD@CUVMB Daniel Uchitelle
cul.henry@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU Chuck Henry
JUNGER@CWRU Peter D. Junger
WARMCN@DALAC David McNeil
dbantz@DARTMOUTH.EDU David Bantz
UPK000@DBNRHRZ1 Gerd Willee
AMR06@DK0RRZK0 Hans-Christoph Hobohm
ANT01@DMSWWU1A Alfred Suhl
ZRSZOT1@DTUZDV2 Wilhelm Ott
kl88a@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Kris Lockyear
CARLOS@ECSVAX David Perry
humanist@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Humanist Group
r.j.hare@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Roger Hare
RICKARD@EDUCOM Wendy Rickard
udaa270@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK Susan Kruse
FILOLO16@EMDUAM11 Maria del Carmen
MARCOS@EMDUAM11 Francisco Marcos-Marin
rda@EPISTEMI.ED.AC.UK Robert Dale
wujastyk@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK Dominik Wujastyk
cameron@EXETER.AC.UK Keith Cameron
proud.j@EXETER.AC.UK Judith Proud
cbf@FAULHABER.BERKELEY.EDU Charles Faulhaber
ksandelin@FINABO Karl-Gustav Sandelin
AOHEINO@FINFUN Aarre Heino
HOPKINS@FINFUN John D. Hopkins
MAKIVIRT@FINJYU Joni Mikael Makivirta
JOKSA@FINUJO Jukka Oksa
WERNER@FINUJO Stefan Werner
amsler@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM Robert Amsler
UOFTOULS@FRCICT81 Humanists at Toulouse
EISINGER@FRIBM11 Marc Eisinger
mark@GIDE.UCHICAGO.EDU Mark Olsen
MLFACNH@GITVM1 Nicolas Hernandez Jr.
rockwell@GPU.UTCS.UTORONTO.CA Geoffrey Rockwell
IRIZARRY@GUVAX Estelle Irizarry
NEUMAN@GUVAX Mike Neuman
AHRENS@HARTFORD John Ahrens
DJB@HARVUNXW David Birnbaum
ELLI@HARVUNXW Elli Mylonas
RADAI1@HBUNOS Yisrael Radai
GALIARD@HGRRUG5 Harry Gaylord
COR_HVH@HNYKUN52 Hans van Halteren
HUUET@HUJIVM1 Emmanuel Tov
humanists@HUM.GU.SE Humanists at Gothenburg
D_DAVIS@HVRFORD Douglas A. Davis
ST_JOSEPH@HVRFORD David Carpenter
nancyf@IBM.COM Nancy J. Frishberg
ap02@IBM.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mark Sacks
fri001@IBM.SOTON.AC.UK Sean O'Cathasaigh
ayi004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Brian Molyneaux
CONSERVA@IFIIDG Lelio Camilleri
IPIF100@INDYCMS Giles R. Hoyt
humanist@INGER.UIO.NO Humanists at Oslo
XLYKN8@IRISHMVS Dan Mandell
HUMANIST@IRLEARN Humanists in Ireland
MOKELLY@IRLEARN Michael O'Kelly
GG.BIB@ISUMVS Rosanne G. Potter
S1.CAC@ISUMVS Carol Chapelle
S1.JFE@ISUMVS John F. Eveland
U245@ITOCSIP Maurizio Lana
COLE@IUBACS Robert Cole
ELLIS@IUBACS Richard William Ellis
HANJ@IUBACS Jining Han
LACUREJ@IUBACS Jon LaCure
PARKER@IUBACS Randolph Parker
PEEBLES@IUBACS Christopher Peebles
RUTHERFO@IUBACS Lorraine Olley
PAPAKHI@IUBVM Ralph A. Papakhian
MHAYWARD@IUP Malcolm Hayward
L64A3779@JHUVM Peter Batke
FAC_MDHA@JMUVAX1 Mark Hawthorne
C51017@JPNKUDPC David Smith
RSMITH@KSUVM Robin Smith
WOOLLEYJ@LAFAYETT James Woolley
ACLOUTIER@LAKEHEAD Andre Cloutier
F5400000@LAUVAX01 John Sandys-Wunsch
nick@LCCR.SFU.CDN Nick Cercone
ENCOPE@LSUVM Kevin Cope
EM@MACALSTR Elizabeth Mathis
RPY383@MAINE Colin Martindale
hi.aristar@MCC.COM Anthony Aristar
hi.morgan@MCC.COM Martha G. Morgan
CIORAN@MCMASTER Sam Cioran
JOHNSON@MCMASTER Joanna M. Johnson
PONTERIO@MIDD Robert Ponterio
DJMABRY@MSSTATE Don Mabry
GBOGGESS@MSSTATE Julian Eugene Boggess
JAYRICHY@MSSTATE Jarryl Brooke Ritchie
MAYNOR@MSSTATE Natalie Maynor
19910TOM@MSU Tom Tomlinson
weinshank@MSUEGR Donald J. Weinshank
E00050@MSUS1 Philip Keith
LAVENDA@MSUS1 Robert Lavenda
WAYNE@MSUS1 Wayne Tosh
matsuba@MTSG.UBC.CA Stephen Naoyuki Matsuba
6297TAYL@MUCSD Richard Taylor
CHADANT@MUN Tony Chadwick
DGRAHAM@MUN David Graham
MNEWTON@MUN Michael Newton
nsabelli@NCSA.UIUC.EDU Nora H. Sabelli
DDAHM@NEUVM1 Hans Joergen Marker
humanist@NEWCASTLE.AC.UK Humanists in Northumbria
H156004@NJECNVM Kenneth Tompkins
FAFEO@NOBERGEN Espen Ore
FAFKH@NOBERGEN Knut Hofland
HKLRP@NOBERGEN Richard Holton Pierce
bjorn_svennerstam@NORRKOM.UMU.SE Bjorn Svennerstam
helge_niska@NORRKOM.UMU.SE Helge Niska
ELLOOIBY@NUSVM Vincent Beng Yeow Ooi
MCDAID@NYUACF John McDaid
FKOCH@OBERLIN Christian Koch
FZINN@OBERLIN Grover Zinn
PRUSSELL@OBERLIN Roberta Russell
HSW100U@ODUVM Harold Stacy Wilson
g.dixon@PA.CN.UMIST.AC.UK Gordon Dixon
MG6BE8@PANAM Mark Glazer
JACKA@PENNDRLS Jack Abercrombie
KRAFT@PENNDRLS Bob Kraft
THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Terry Harpold
TREAT@PENNDRLS Jay Treat
del2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Douglas de Lacey
nz101@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Norman Zacour
bobh@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU Robert Hollander
au100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK Ahmad Y. Ubaydli
jld1@PHX.CAM.AC.UK John L. Dawson
oakman_d1@PLU Douglas E. Oakman
JMB@POMONA Joanne M. Badagliacco
PKOSSUTH@POMONA Karen Kossuth
PSACHS1@POMONA Chris Culy
lang@PRC.UNISYS.COM Francois-Michel Lang
incoming-humanist@PRG.OXFORD.AC.UK Humanists at Oxford
p08430@PRIME-E.PLYMOUTH.AC.UK Steven H. Holmes
T3B@PSUVM Tom Benson
BALESTRI@PUCC Diane P. Balestri
MWJENNIN@PUCC Michael W. Jennings
RICH@PUCC Richard Giordano
TOBYPAFF@PUCC Toby Paff
d.mitchell@QMC.AC.UK David Mitchell
BARNARD@QUCDN David T. Barnard
LESSARDG@QUCDN Greg Lessard
LOGANG@QUCDN George Logan
MCDOJK@QUCDN James K. McDonald
ORVIKT@QUCDN Tone Orvik
WIEBEM@QUCDN M. G. Wiebe
JOE$REG@QUEENS Joseph P. Capobianco
JOHNFOX@RCN John Fox
ron.brasington@READING.AC.UK Ron Brasington
jsveinb@RHI.HI.IS Jon Sveinbjornsson
ledgerwood@RHODES Mikle Ledgerwood
NRCGSH@RITVAX Norman Coombs
bl.ccg@RLG.BITNET Connie Gould
HARRISON@RPICICGE Teri Harrison
2631002@RUTVM1 Rich Novak
GILLILAND@SASK Marshall Gilliland
JULIEN@SASK Jacques Julien
LZMORGAN@SBCCVM Leslie Z. Morgan
PEY365@SCRANTON Philip E. Yevics
ERIC@SDNET Eric Johnson
PATTY@SDNET Patricia Ericsson
UGA108@SDNET Stephen H. Dill
HORTONT@SERVAX Thomas B. Horton
USERAARY@SFU Paul Delany
USERANTH@SFU Alan Rudrum
USERCRIC@SFU Curtis Rice
USERDOG1@SFU John K. Gilbert
USERNHMS@SFU Gerri Sinclair
USERVINO@SFU Walter Piovesan
FRIEDMAN@SITVXC Edward Friedman
JHUBBARD@SMITH Jamie Hubbard
DRU001D@SMSVMA Charles Ess
ZRCC1001@SMUVM1 Robin C. Cover
goer@SOPHIST.UCHICAGO.EDU Richard L. Goerwitz
humanist@SSCVAX.MCMASTER.CA Humanists at McMaster
GX.MBB@STANFORD Malcolm Brown
XB.J24@STANFORD John J. Hughes
FLIKEID@STMARYS Karin Flikeid
h02004%n1@SUSY.USNA.MIL David E. Johnson
ACDRLK@SUVM Ron Kalinoski
ASHOK@SUVM Ashok Mehta
DECARTWR@SUVM Dana Cartwright
LIBJCW@SUVM John Wyman
SYSGAM@SUVM Glenn A. Malling
bs83@SYSA.SALFORD.AC.UK Max Wood
A79@TAUNIVM David Sitman
B10@TAUNIVM Itamar Even-Zohar
ELDAD@TAUNIVM Eldad Salzmann
H27@TAUNIVM Ron Zweig
THEALLDF@TRENT Donald Theall
com3rae@TRENT.AC.UK Simon Rae
DUCALL@TUCCVM Frank L. Borchardt
USERSTAN@UALTAMTS Stan Beeler
SREIMER@UALTAVM Stephen R. Reimer
TBUTLER@UALTAVM Terry Butler
USERDLDB@UBCMTSG Laine Ruus
C078D6S6@UBVM Thomas W. Stuart
APYEZRA@UBVMSC Ezra Zubrow
KPRODDY@UCDAVIS Kevin Roddy
HUMANIST@UCI Humanists at UC-Irvine
LMHILL@UCI Lamar M. Hill
IBQ1JVR@UCLAMVS John Richardson
IDT1RSK@UCLAMVS Robert S. Kirsner
IMD7VAW@UCLAMVS Vicky Walsh
IVW7KJM@UCLAMVS Karie Masterson
XBINGJG@UCLASSCF George Bing
MILLS@UCRVMS Ted Mills
6500RMS@UCSBUXA Randall M. Smith
jcam13@UCVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK John Gillespie
jcsa13@UCVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK Philip Hendrick
GEARY@UFFSC Patrick J. Geary
STAMPE@UHCCUX David Stampe
grgo@UHURA.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU Greg Goode
U08208@UICVM George Yanos
U35395@UICVM Michael Sperberg-McQueen
qghu21@UJVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK Noel Wilson
iwml@UKC.AC.UK Ian Mitchell Lambert
FHNUES01@ULKYVM Frank Nuessel
KROVETZ@UMASS Bob Krovetz
BAUMGARTEN@UMBC Joseph Baumgarten
C465904@UMCVMB Beth Jones
GUEDON@UMTLVR Jean-Claude Guedon
STRAIT@UMUC Michael J. Strait
UNCJSR@UNC J. S. Reed
ESLINGER@UNCAMULT Lyle Eslinger
FEN00BHD@UNCCVM Boyd Davis
ghb@UNCECS.EDU George Brett
BREWERJ@UNCG Jeutonne P. Brewer
WEYKERS@UNCG Dennis Weyker
d_richman@UNHH David Richman
J_CERNY@UNHH Jim Cerny
J_GOLDFI@UNHH Joel Goldfield
N270019@UNIVSCVM Greta Little
CLAS056@UNLCDC3 John Turner
ACRC0008@UNLVM Gerald Kutish
ENGL0333@UNLVM David Hibler
STGEORGE@UNMB Art St. George
BUDANK@UOFMCC Donna Keizer
HANLY@UOFMCC Ken Hanly
FAC0287@UOFT01 Paul Fritz
FAC2090@UOFT01 J. Benjamin
CSHUNTER@UOGUELPH Stuart Hunter
ENGBRIGG@UOGUELPH Peter Brigg
LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH Dana Paramskas
A014@UORVM Jorie Woods
d_santiago@UPRENET Delma Santiago
J_WARD@UPRENET James H. Ward
R21014@UQAM Luc Dupuy
RYLE@URVAX Martin Ryle
heberlein@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Friedrich Heberlein
h01024%n1%susy.usna.mil@USNA.MIL David Tomlinson
ANDREWO@UTOREPAS Andrew Oliver
CORBETT@UTOREPAS John Corbett
DUMONT@UTOREPAS Stephen Dumont
ERSATZ@UTOREPAS H. C. Earwicker
HURD@UTOREPAS John Hurd
IAN@UTOREPAS Ian Lancashire
INWOOD@UTOREPAS Brad Inwood
ROBERTS@UTOREPAS Robert Sinkewicz
SOUSA@UTOREPAS Ronnie DeSousa
STAIRS@UTOREPAS Mike Stairs
WINDER@UTOREPAS Bill Winder
humanist@UTORGPU.UTORONTO Humanists at Toronto
S_RICHMOND@UTOROISE S. Richmond
BRADLEY@UTORVM John Bradley
ESWENSON@UTORVM Eva V. Swenson
LAINE@UTORVM Laine Ruus
LIDIO@UTORVM Lidio Presutti
PARROTT@UTORVM Martha Parrott
8122313@UWAVM Gerald Barnett
93651@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Stacy Waters
IMR@UWOVAX Ian M. Richmond
shroyer@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Richard Shroyer
42162_1242@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Annick Deakin
42104_263@UWOVAX.UWO.CDN Glyn Holmes
NYEDEN@UWYO Eric Nye
IDE@VASSAR Nancy Ide
a_boddington@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Andy Boddington
a_stutt@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Arthur Stutt
aeb_bevan@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Edis Bevan
may@VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK May Katzen
archive@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Oxford Text Archive
catherine@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Catherine Griffin
ctcmiker@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Oxford Computing Teaching Centre
dbpaul@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Paul Salotti
dpf@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Don Fowler
john@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK John Cooper
morpurgo@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Anna Morpurgo Davies
rglynn@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Ruth Glynn
stephen@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Stephen Miller
susan@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Susan Hockey
csmike@VAX.SWAN.AC.UK Michael Farringdon
v002@VAXA.BANGOR.AC.UK Thomas N. Corns
wwsrs@VAXA.STIR.AC.UK Keith Whitelam
ej1@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK Edward James
gw2@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK Geoffrey Wall
humanities@VAXB.RHBNC.AC.UK Humanists' Group
baller@VAXC.ERIM.ORG Sharon Baller
alzcsb@VAXH.NOTT.AC.UK Dr Chris Butler
eihe4874@VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK Jim Kippen
buchwald@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA J. Z. Buchwald
young@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA Abigail Ann Young
crosby@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Connie Crosby
p.adman@VME.CC.HULL.AC.UK Peter Adman
humanist@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Humanists at Glasgow
CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX Dan M. Church
PHILOSDO@VUCTRVAX Stephen Clark
ERDT@VUVAXCOM Terry Erdt
LOGAN@WATDCS Grace Logan
TOMPA@WATDCS Frank Tompa
WALTER@WATDCS Walter McCutchan
ddrob@WATDCS.UWATERLOO.CA Don D. Roberts
drraymond@WATMUM.UWATERLOO.CA Darrell Raymond
UN07144@WVNMVS Jurgen E Schlunk
U47C2@WVNVM Patrick Conner
xeroxhumanists^.x@XEROX.COM Humanists at Xerox
DHARBIN@YALEVM Duane Harbin
ELI@YALEVM Doug Hawthorne
ELINZE@YALEVM Naama Zahavi-Ely
MKELLER@YALEVM Michael A. Keller
SCLAUS@YALEVM Stephen Clausing
SMOULTHR@YALEVM Stuart Moulthrop
UTTANU@YALEVM Niko Besnier
YAEL@YKTVMH2 Yael Ravin
DANIEL@YORKVM1 Daniel Bloom
YFPL0004@YORKVM1 Shu-Yan Mok
YFPL0007@YORKVM1 Stanley Tweyman
YFPL0018@YORKVM1 Paul Kashiyama
BRIANW@YORKVM2 Brian Whittaker
psl@YQUEM.BELLCORE.COM Peter Langston
CS100006@YUSOL Peter Roosen-Runge
GL250012@YUVENUS Jim Benson
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