Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 542.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:45:45 +0100 (BST)
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: a modest request
Dear Colleagues,
A colleague recently remarked to me that inclusion of HTML in an e-mail
message was "so 90s". This is a request to keep that practice buried in
the last century, please not to let it terrorise your editor, and
perhaps some recipients of Humanist. Due to the growing amount of
information that washes up on our shores -- variously, what is a
valuable find to one is another's flotsam -- we all need to take care
with what we circulate, indeed what we circulate. I continue to pass
along conference announcements as far afield as computational
linguistics because I think that it's good we know about these
activities, if not know them any further. I also continue to delete most
of such messages that come along with URLs, since it seems to me rather
much to burden you with the plain-text versions of announcements you can
more easily read on the Web. If you are an organiser of an event, or
someone who circulates announcements of same, I would ask you to
abbreviate corresponding submissions to Humanist as much as
possible, and to shun the cursed HTML. (Consider how much better it is
if YOU take the snips to your own message rather than leave it to the
sometimes not so tender mercies of a sometimes harried editor. Even the
sweet peaches of Georgia and the music of Hamza el Din cannot fully
sustain him who is vexed by prolix announcements and those barbed with
pointy HTML. Have mercy!
Yours,
WM
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