Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 291.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:34:02 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: confusions & apologies
Dear colleagues:
On occasion a message submitted to Humanist may appear to the author to
have been suppressed deliberately without notice. I suspect that these days
messages seldom or almost never "disappear into the aether" (i.e. vanish
unaccountably, not by human hand), as once did happen; more often, I
suspect, we politely assume this when actually the recipient has deep-sixed
the message for whatever reason. Please be assured that this NEVER happens
on Humanist. From time to time I do write to authors to point out that this
or that message has nothing to do with applied computing and so really
doesn't belong here; sometimes I will suggest how it could be reformulated
so that it does. But I never simply delete messages, however strongly
tempted :-).
If a message is delayed in its appearance, this is likely because with my
half-brained filtering system in Eudora, it has been shlepped off to an
unsuspected mailbox and I don't see it in time. This regularly happens to
messages from people I otherwise correspond with and so have a filter in
place to treat the messages of. It also happens to messages that somehow
escape the send-it-to-the-Humanist-folder filter for whatever reason.
So, if within 2 postings you do not see the message you sent, please write
to enquire.
In the last few weeks I have been moving files from my old machine to my
new one (which CAVE has a USB interface only). In the last few days there
have been teething problems with the machines at Virginia. The teaching
term has begun and other turbulence hit my leaky bark. Hence, for example,
the additional batch of delayed messages you are about to receive, for
which all apologies from both animate and inanimate beings involved with
Humanist.
Yours,
WM
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Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /
King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. /
voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 /
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maui gratias agere
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