3.677 scope of Humanist; e-mail (57)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 1 Nov 89 20:33:57 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 677. Wednesday, 1 Nov 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 89 14:12:09 GMT (21 lines)
From: MFFGKTS@CMS.MANCHESTER-COMPUTING-CENTRE.AC.UK
Subject: Policy on adverts et cetera

(2) Date: 31 Oct 89 19:11:02 EDT (16 lines)
From: Jim Cahalan <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
Subject: Email and ham radio?

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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 89 14:12:09 GMT
From: MFFGKTS@CMS.MANCHESTER-COMPUTING-CENTRE.AC.UK
Subject: Policy on adverts et cetera


Manchester, 1 November 1989
Dear HUMANIST,
May I add my vote AGAINST restricting HUMANIST to matters strictly
related to computing, either in general or in the matter of job
adverts in particular?
There may be room for a separate bulletin board for the technically-
inclined, as has been suggested by others recently, though I would
think that such communications could be adequately flagged under
the present system of editing. But it seems to me absolutely
crucial that electronic media should get deeply involved in the
real concerns of humanities study - and be seen by our colleagues
to be furthering integral rather than peripheral objectives.
*** Provided of course that it reduces rather than multiplies
the paperwork! ***
Floreat amicabilis concordia, Gordon Neal
Dept. of Greek and Latin, Manchester, U.K.
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Date: 31 Oct 89 19:11:02 EDT
From: Jim Cahalan <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
Subject: Email and ham radio?

To pick up on James Halporn's analogy between Email networks and the old
days in London when there were eight daily mail deliveries, I'm wondering
if anyone has like myself been struck by the parallels between our
Email networks and ham radios. I was never a ham radio person, but I
think people (like me!) get on the Email "airwaves" and "listen" and
"chat" much like ham radio afficionados. We have, if not quite our own
lingo like ham radio people, our own punctuation system to *emphasize*
things in Email. . .

Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
English Dept., 111 Leonard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Phone: (412) 357-2264