Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 221.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:30:55 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: brief silence
Dear colleagues:
Apologies for the brief silence on Humanist. One of the two main machines
involved in the publication of Humanist, at Virginia, was hacked into and
damaged last week. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of several people there
over the weekend the machine is now up and running. Apparently the hacker
got into the machine by guessing someone's password, then laid waste to
everything within reach. As a Miltonist (as I was trained to be) I have
imagery ready to fit the circumstance and am not discouraged in its
application by the constant litter of slimy flostam that washes onto my
electronic shores every morning. This morning, for example, as I was
walking along them, so to speak, I looked down and saw one labelled, "GOD
BLESS" from "mmadamabacha". Those messages that read, e.g., "humanist,
honey...", have very little to say, comparatively speaking. Consider, for
a rich bit of cultural history, the steps between that "GOD BLESS" and the
meaning I rightly read from it -- which, roughly, is this: "I want to cheat
you out of large sums of money by appealing to your naked greed!" Now, if
you are inclined to cry out, "o tempora, o mores" at all, here indeed is an
occasion.
Welcome back, Humanist.
Yours,
WM
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