7.0037 Qs: S/W; H/W; NetNews; Church Doors; Goodies (6/124)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 1 Jun 1993 19:45:04 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0037. Tuesday, 1 Jun 1993.


(1) Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:13:15 -0400 (EDT) (25 lines)
From: laplante@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Laplante Benoit)
Subject: Software for life histories

(2) Date: Thu, 27 May 93 21:59 EDT (20 lines)
From: <BCJ@PSUVM>
Subject: Access to E-Mail

(3) Date: Fri, 28 May 93 15:18:08 EDT (20 lines)
From: Brett Charbeneaui <BWCHAR@WMVM1>
Subject: SAGER notebook computers

(4) Date: Sun, 30 May 93 17:56:06 PDT (11 lines)
From: delany@sfu.ca
Subject: Church doors

(5) Date: Mon, 31 May 93 10:38:32 +0100 (35 lines)
From: rbh@ukc.ac.uk
Subject: Help Requested

(6) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 14:04:07 PDT (13 lines)
From: hbreit@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Krazy Kat

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: laplante@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Laplante Benoit)
Subject: Software for life histories

This is a request I am passing on on behalf of an African colleague of mine
who has no access to any form of electronic mail.

Mr. Fahl, my colleague, is working on a collection of life histories and
is looking for software that could help him in his work. For what I know of
his preferences, he is interested more in truly qualitative analysis than in
quantitative or descriptive analysis. The life histories have been collected
as part of a study on internal migration to Dakar in Senegal. The sotware would
have to run on a DOS machine with limited memory (no more than 2M) and limited
disk space (no more than 100M).

I guess that the kind of software used by field ethnologists could be of some
use to him by these are really matters I am not familiar with. I will welcome
all suggestions and forward all of them to my colleague.

Benoit laplante
Departement de psychologie
Universite de Montreal
Laplante@ERE.UMontreal.CA


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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 21:59 EDT
From: <BCJ@PSUVM>
Subject: Access to E-Mail

As a list "owner," dogsbody, & factotum [C18-L *and* Latin-L], I get
frequent queries about ways people can get access to the networks. Some
of these people are independent scholars, or are not affiliated with
universities or organizations that run email nodes. I do not know how to
answer them. Therefore, I'm putting out a query for everybody on HUMANIST
who uses a commercial service -- can you please tell me how well they work
for you, and if you have experience with more than one, can you provide an
unofficial, informal, confidential rating? And can anybody tell me where
there are FREENETS?

Please send replies directly to me to minimize HUMANIST traffic -- I'll
summarize to the list if it's your wish.

Thanks -- Kevin Berland
BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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Date: Fri, 28 May 93 15:18:08 EDT
From: Brett Charbeneaui <BWCHAR@WMVM1>
Subject: SAGER notebook computers



Hello all,

I am considering spending some fellowship money on the purchase of a
SAGER notebook computer.
I am seeking information from anyone who knows anything about this
company, its products, or the model I have in mind (NP200).
Even if you know someone who has one, I would still like to hear from
you. Please respond directly. Thanks very much, and I hope evryone has a
wonderful holiday!

Brett Charbeneau
Jouneyman Printer
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
INTERNET: BWCHAR%WMVM1.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.ED
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Date: Sun, 30 May 93 17:56:06 PDT
From: delany@sfu.ca
Subject: Church doors

I'm writing something on NetNews, and would like to draw a parallel with
the medieval practice of posting theses and other information on the
local church door.
Can any Humanist direct me to a source that describes such medieval
bulletin boards in detail?
Thank you - Paul Delany delany@sfu.ca

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Date: Mon, 31 May 93 10:38:32 +0100
From: rbh@ukc.ac.uk
Subject: Help Requested


I am at present teaching a computing course for first-year
Humanities students at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
This course is in its seventh week. The students have seen
demonstrated anonymous ftp, Gopher, Veronica and Archie. Now
I'm pushing them towards using these systems themselves.
(I.e., do such-and-such and you add three points to your
mark, etc.)

Here's the rub. I'm getting back-pressure. This is its
generalized form: "Why are we being forced to learn all of
this when there doesn't seem to be anything of relevance
to our other coursework in these archives, etc." They
aren't interested in e-texts of Shakespeare and the Bible.

Any suggestions about things they could fetch, or look at,
would be greatly appreciated. The subjects they are
studying are various central humanities subjects; i.e.,
philosophy, history, etc. They have looked at various
newsgroups. I don't wish to push them towards subscribing
to bulletin boards at this stage.

What they are looking for is a way to break out of the
"computing is about how to do computing" circle, and into
areas which they will find intellectually relevant.

I'm teaching this course six hours a day. Were I not,
I wouldn't have to impose upon the goodwill of fellow
Humanists.

Thanks. Roger Hardy rbh@ukc.ac.uk
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 14:04:07 PDT
From: hbreit@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Krazy Kat

I am interested in current research on the subject of Krazy Kat, the
cartoonist George Herriman, or the popularity of Krazy Kat among
intellectuals of the 1920's.

Henry Breitrose
Department of Communication
Stanford

internet: hbreit@leland.stanford.edu