[1] From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> (11)
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
[2] From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> (8)
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
[3] From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing- (21)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
[4] From: gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu (1)
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
[5] From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> (4)
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
[6] From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> (22)
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:21:16 -0500
From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
How about the simply announcement and where to get further info.
Thanks for asking!
Sincerely,
Dan Price, Ph.D.
Professor,
The Center for Distance Learning
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:57:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
I have no desire to add to our esteemed editor's chores. Yet, there is no
denying that lengthly calls for papers are quite annoying and a waste of
bandwidth. Much of the type of info included in these calls should be on a
Web page (the url accompanying the call for papers). This should be
especially true for calls issued by CHum organizations. Perhaps you could
put the onus for editing the lengthy call for papers upon its creator. Do
you think sending a polite form letter asking for a less prolix call would
do the trick?
gary
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:43:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
As a regular perpetrator of long boring conference announcements I'd
like to apologise immediately for the editor's laziness in not cutting
mine down to a mere reference to its URL
(http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98, by the way) Come on Willard, get those
virtual scissors out, and make sure that no-one ever reads anything
that doesn't begin with "http"....
Seriously, there is a need for a regular web site at which conference
announcements can be found en masse. Such sites do exist in fields
related to those which interest Humanist's readers (there are two
excellent ones for linguists -- see
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html and
http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html) but without the postings
to general purpose lists like Humanist or Linguist I doubt whether
they'd get populated.
Can I also recommend to your readers the HUMBUL bulletin board
(http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul) which has recently relaunched its
conference diary facility. If you're organizing a conference in this
field, make sure you post an announcement there too...
Lou
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:47:41 -0500
From: gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
Yes, abbreviated conference calls would be preferable.
George Aichele
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:51:21 -0400
From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
> If, however, it is the concensus of the membership that [long conference announcements] should be truncated or even sent into quiet oblivion, I am more
than willing to consider instituting the policy.
Pressing "delete" is not overly taxing but four lines and a URL would be
better.
- Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont, http://www.uvm.edu/~hag
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:23:53 -0800
From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls?
Willard
This is in reply to your request for reactions to Tim Reuter's plea for
shorter (or no) conference announcements on Humanist.
I wouldn't at all like them to disappear altogether, but limiting them to
about 15-20 lines for title, dates, deadlines, venue and scope shouldn't be
too hard.
This might encourage more of our colleagues to exploit the Web, and simply
point us to a URL.
Any readers unfamiliar with what the Web can do for a conference, could try
looking at:
WorldCALL: www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall/program.htm
or (pardon the pro domo), a site we were asked to leave up, because some
colleagues who teach IT courses wanted to use it as an exemplar:
web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3/
Peter Liddell
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