Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/09/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1024. Thursday, 8 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 23:58:00 EST (19 lines) From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: Brand New 18th-Century Interdisciplinary Discussion List (2) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 90 08:00:09 EST (18 lines) From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM> Subject: RUSTEX-L list (3) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 08:32:10 EST (30 lines) From: djb@harvunxw.BITNET (David J. Birnbaum) Subject: rustex-l (4) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 11:51:40 EST (51 lines) From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.acs.unc.edu> Subject: What is the Internet? (5) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 14:40:16 -0500 (37 lines) From: Gary Stonum <gxs11@cwns6.INS.CWRU.Edu> Subject: SCE/MMLA Call for papers (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 23:58:00 EST From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: Brand New 18th-Century Interdisciplinary Discussion List Greetings! As of 5:00 this afternoon, Penn State's Virtual Machine is the new home of C18-L -- the long-awaited 18th-century discussion list. It is open, unmoderated, and archived on a monthly basis. We home to attract free-ranging discussion of topics of interest to students and scholars of the 18th century everywhere. What the list becomes is up to the contributors, of course, but we hope to see a wide range of functions -- including calls for papers, notes & queries, arguments, friendly backchat, and so forth. To subscribe, send an interactive command (TELL LISTSERV AT PSUVM SUBSCRIBE C18-L <Your name here>. Send messages to C18-L@PSUVM. We look forward to hearing from you. Kevin Berland BCJ@PSUVM (2) --------------------------------------------------------------26---- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 90 08:00:09 EST From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM> Subject: RUSTEX-L list In Humanist 3.1017, I asked about a new list on Russian typesetting and email. Matthew Gilmore (GY945C@GWUVM) sent the answer. It is a very new list, so that is why it didn't show up on the List-of- lists. Standard listserv commands to LISTSERV@UBVM Postings to RUSTEX-L@UBVM Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: eparker@well.sf.ca.us Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 BIX: eparker USA UUCP: {psuvax1}!cmuvm.bitnet!3zlufur (3) --------------------------------------------------------------36---- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 08:32:10 EST From: djb@harvunxw.BITNET (David J. Birnbaum) Subject: rustex-l Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM> writes: >Has anybody run across a list called RUSTEX that deals with >"Russian TeX and Soviet Email?" Any additional info. would be >appreciated. Rustex-l, originally set up to discuss Russian TeX, now covers many topics pertaining to computing and Cyrillic. This includes Russian TeX, Soviet Email, Cyrillic word processing, spelling checkers, thesauri, hyphenation routines, character set standards, keyboard layouts, and other matters that I have probably forgotten. It is not for political discussion. The address is rustex-l@ubvm.bitnet. The ListServ owner is Dimitri Vulis (dlv@cunyvms1.bitnet), a graduate student in mathematics at CUNY and the author of an M.A. thesis on Russian hyphenation algo- rithms. --David David J. Birnbaum djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet] djb@harvunxw.bitnet [Bitnet] ...!wjh12!djb [UUCP] (4) --------------------------------------------------------------61---- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 11:51:40 EST From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.acs.unc.edu> Subject: What is the Internet? What is the Internet? by Paul Jones Academic Computing Services University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC (pjones@samba.acs.unc.edu) Permission to reprint and distribute given only if this attribution is also given. "In the beginning there was the ARPAnet, a wide area experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Procedures were set up to regulate the allocation of addresses and to create voluntary standards for the network. As local area networks became more pervasive, many hosts became gateways to local networks. A network layer to allow the interoperation of these networks was developed and called IP (Internet Protocol). Over time other groups created long haul IP based networks (NASA, NSF, states...). These nets, too, inter-operate because of IP. The collection of all of these interoperating networks is the Internet. " So begins The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet , a text prepared in 1987 by Ed Krol. Since those ARPAnet days, the Internet has grown and divided without losing interoperability, allowing researchers, scholars, students, and even introverted computer nerds to interact with thousands of their peers around the world. As of August 1989, there were over 118,000 sites (computers) directly connected to the Internet. Each site has from 2 or 3 to several thousand people using the computer at that site. Thus the Internet has a population size close to that of a major city. The resources of this city include some of the world's fastest super-computers, some of the world's most sophisticated computer software (which is often shared), library card catalogues of many major universities, and often intelligent discussions with experts (accredited and self-proclaimed) on every subject under the sun. -------------------- [A complete version of this document is now available on the file-server, s.v. INTERNET WHAT_IS. A copy may be obtained by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@UToronto and *not* to Humanist. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO GET filename filetype HUMANIST; to submit a batch-job, send mail to ListServ@UToronto with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see your "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] (5) --------------------------------------------------------------53---- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 14:40:16 -0500 From: Gary Stonum <gxs11@cwns6.INS.CWRU.Edu> Subject: SCE/MMLA Call for papers "Theory and Theory-Work in an Electronic Age" Society for Critical Exchange panels at the Midwest Modern Language Assn. annual meeting, November 1-3, 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri Papers of up to 8 (single-spaced) pages are invited on either (or both) of two related topics: the implications for criticism and theory of modern information technology and also specific applications of such technology to scholarly work in criticism and theory. Deadline for submissions is April 9, 1990. Inquiries and submissions should be directed to: Gary Lee Stonum Department of English Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, OH 44106 216-368-3342 Internet: gxs11@PO.CWRU.EDU Or to put this in a format and a dialect that is a little less wall-posterish: we're interested in reports and speculations of all kinds about how the tasks and opportunities of literary theory change when reading and writing go on-line, become increasingly interactive, and can telecommunicate with persons, archives, databases, etc. For instance, what happens to notions of a text; of an author; of reading as a private, normatively silent activity; of literary works as portable objects; of originality, plagiarism, genius, and other issues of copyright and intellectual property; and of a lot of other ideas that haven't occurred to the organizers yet.