Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 432.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:51:07 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: cooperative restraint
Dear Colleagues:
The last rather voluminous batch of Humanist messages s.v. "new on WWW"
prompts me to ask for some cooperative restraint. Please, if you send to
Humanist announcements whose contents might be gleaned from corresponding
Web sites, delete everything but a summary of these contents and whatever
URLs are required. In the past, conference announcements have been
particularly a problem, which I have addressed by deleting as much as
possible from them. I may be able likewise to hack large sections from
announcements of online resources etc., but the amount of time this
required of me today (at the time of writing) leads me to think that I will
not be able to continue. It makes no sense, really, to have such
duplication. We can assume, can we not, that everyone who reads these
notices has access to the Web? Can we pull together as a community well
enough that contributors will do a bit of self-editing?
The alternative is for me simply to delete messages altogether as necessity
suggests. There's no way Humanist can publish everything relevant to
humanities computing. So, somehow, we need also to contribute only the most
important & consequential things.
Many thanks for your help.
Yours,
WM
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