3.1125 a fascination of queries (152)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Fri, 2 Mar 90 22:36:31 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1125. Friday, 2 Mar 1990.


(1) Date: Thursday, 1 March 1990 1944-EST (16 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Network Gurus, Help!

(2) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 90 21:48:29 EST (8 lines)
From: David Gillison <DAGLC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Distance education?

(3) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 09:23:44 -0500 (EST) (10 lines)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: E-publishing SIG

(4) Date: 2 March 90, 17:24:21 EST (14 lines)
From: U245 at ITOCSIVM
Subject: bibliography for WordCruncher

(5) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 15:09 GMT (22 lines)
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Ladies of Llangollen???

(6) Date: Thu, 1 MAR 90 17:06:05 GMT (25 lines)
From: CHAA006@VAXA.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: CD-ROM `jukeboxes'

(7) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 13:27:45 CST (14 lines)
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: German Wordlist

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Date: Thursday, 1 March 1990 1944-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Network Gurus, Help!

Here is a new one on me -- and I'm not handling the rejection very well!
When I try to contact Peter Lafford who is IDPAL@ASUACAD, the messages
are returned from ASUACAD with the line "Unknown network sender PENNDRLS
KRAFT"

I'm pretty sure I exist and my address exists (Peter Lafford wrote to me
successfully at that address!), so what is going on? I've tried the
usual things like upper/lower case, addressing the postmaster at
ASUACAD, but it all comes back.

Bob Kraft, the unknown sender
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 90 21:48:29 EST
From: David Gillison <DAGLC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Distance education?

Without wishing to appear dense for the life of me I have never heard of
DISTANCE EDUCATION! Are we talking secondary education via the stars?

Could someone help?
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 09:23:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: E-publishing SIG

The list of professional societies represented on HUMANIST recently
posted by Bob Kraft included: Electronic Publishing Special Interest
Group (Newsletter) [Cover].
Could someone please provide me with information about this group?
Thanks,
Leslie Burkholder
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Date: 2 March 90, 17:24:21 EST
From: U245 at ITOCSIVM
Subject: bibliography for WordCruncher

Could anyone help me to collect a scientific bibliography concerning
WordCruncher? I'd be interested in reviews of the software and
paper concerning research accomplished using WordCruncher.
I'd like to receive the data at my e-mail address, and like also
to receive a paper copy of what you think could be interesting.
After collecting this bibliography I could send it to Humanist,
as well as a paper copy of it to all the people that contributed
a title and the related paper copy.
Thank you in advance.
Maurizio Lana
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 15:09 GMT
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Ladies of Llangollen???

Can anyone help out an old friend of mine?

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 14:29:42 GMT
From: C.Massey@uk.ac.swurcc
Subject: ladies
To: lou@uk.ac.ox.vax

hello,
you're the most literary person i can think of, so maybe you'll know.
have you ever heard of "The Ladies of Llangollen"?
i've come across a reference to them in a book & the expression
is vaguely familiar. a colleague suggested that they may have been the
people who made the tea & biscuits for the eisteddfodd, but i don't
think this can be right....
clive

Please reply direct to Clive if you can help!

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Date: Thu, 1 MAR 90 17:06:05 GMT
From: CHAA006@VAXA.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: CD-ROM `jukeboxes'

My Director has expressed an interest in the availablity and use of
CD-ROM `jukeboxes'. We have a local-area ethernet (thin-wire,
thick-wire and fibre) linking a VAX 6430 and multiple lesser VAXes with
an assortment of PCs. We would like users anywhere on the ethernet to
be able to access the ROMs at random, and to be able to search them. At
the moment, the data stored on the ROMs is undefined, but one might
assume that initially it will be straight ASCII text; multi-lingual
text, multi-font text, hypertext and video data might then be envisaged
as future applications. Have any humanists any experience of this sort
of CD-ROM usage ? We would be interested to learn of your experiences,
and of your recommendations for suppliers of CD-ROM `jukeboxes', methods
of connection (PC or VAX ?), and location of search software (local PC,
VAX, CD-ROM server PC ?). How does one synchronise multiple simultaneous
accesses to CD-ROM ? I apologise if this question has been asked
before; we store only the most recent Humanist mailings, and a search of
these has not revealed any correspondence on the subject. I would be
most grateful if any replies could be sent direct to me, as well as to
`Humanist'. Many thanks in advance.

Philip Taylor
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
<P.Taylor@Vax.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk>
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 13:27:45 CST
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: German Wordlist

Does anyone have a modern German wordlist that they would be
willing to send over the network. We need to strip out common
non-French wordlists in lists we are using for a phonetic
study. The UNIX spelling checker does a pretty nice job for
English, and I hope to do the same for German. Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated.

Mark Olsen