Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 103.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:43:17 +0100
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.092 detachment from attachments
What cost transparency, Francois? The complete loss of documents of
record that are increasingly sent by email attachment in a plethora of
forms that cannot be managed or permanently retained in digital form by
the recepients without investment in software and personnel. If W3C
would come up with two or three classes of email of increasing formality
and security so that performative speech acts could be transmitted
according to a universal email standard, this problem could be
eliminated. RFC822 (and RFC2822) forces people to enact serious speech
acts in attachments because they are unwilling to enact them within the
standard (which is a social problem, but not one that will go away soon
enough).
Pat Galloway
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Texas-Austin
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