[1] From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@denison.edu> (16)
Subject: DEC Internet translation engine (funny)
[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (40)
Subject: keep them profs off the surfboards
[3] From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> (33)
Subject: Korea-Japan-U.S. Website copying case closed
[4] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (24)
Subject: knowing not AltaVista
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:14:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@denison.edu>
Subject: DEC Internet translation engine (funny)
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
Languages covered:
English to French
English to German
English to Italian
English to Portuguese
English to Spanish
French to English
German to English
Italian to English
Spanish to English
Portuguese to English
In English:
a lot goes the gatta one to the lardo that us it leaves the
zampino
In Italiano (Original text):
tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:38:09 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: keep them profs off the surfboards
The following, quoted from
<http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/caclist/cc5.html> with thanks, I suspect
depicts a not entirely unusual attitude on the part of dinosaurian
moralists. The one flash of darkness that it omits is the suspicion, which I
have heard voiced, that all these feckless scholars are doing in any case is
lookin' at dirty pictures. I am reminded of something Blake said about the
secret desires of the self-righteous. If not taking humanities computing
scholarship seriously is Scylla, then here we meet Charybdis.
Yours,
WM
>From: IN%"[......]@wayne.edu" 10-NOV-1997 15:52:02.34
>To: IN%"KKINZL@TrentU.ca" "Konrad H. Kinzl"
>CC:
>Subj: RE: AAH directory
>
>Dear Konrad:
>
>[.........................]
>
>The email connection is moot, however, as WSU's [Wayne State University's]
>president has restricted faculty access to email to a maximum of 60
>minutes in a 24 hr period (the students actually get 2 hrs) on the grounds
>that faculty are wasting valuable time surfin' the web. If they exceed 60
>minutes their connections are severed for a 24 hr period. So, the
>consequence is that faculty here may well have difficulty in reading and
>responding to their email in a timely manner.
>
>Sorry, but I see that my time is just about up.
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>KONRAD H. KINZL KKINZL@TRENTU.CA
>Department of Ancient History and Classics, Trent University
>Peterborough ON K9J 7B8, Canada. TEL. (705) 748-1814; FAX 748-1721
>Home: 512 Homewood Ave., Peterborough ON K9H 2N3, Canada TEL.(705) 743-8752
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:00:01 +0900
From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Subject: Korea-Japan-U.S. Website copying case closed
From: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp (Steve McCarty)
In "Academic Websites subject to Attribution Ethics"
(Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 433, 1 December 1997)
I reported on a case where U.S. and Japanese Websites were copied
to an academic Website in Korea. In an e-mail message to Seoul,
I identified exactly what was copied from where, and seconded
the earlier request by Prof. Hitoshi Goto, who agreed I should make
the case public for the sake of academic ethics internationally.
Today I'm happy to report that, without recourse to legalities,
academic peer pressure has worked to close the case, as per the
forwarded message below:
>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:32:19 +0900 (JST)
>From: GOTOO Hitosi <gothit@sal.tohoku.ac.jp>
>To: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp
>
>Dear Steve,
>
>>Kindly take all illicitly copied sites off the Web
>
>I have confirmed that the copied pages were removed and, instead,
>links were made to my and others' sites.
>
>I really thank you for your collaboration.
>
>GOTOO Hitosi (Hitoshi Goto) gothit@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
> http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/
>Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
>Grammatici certant, et adhuc sub judice lis est. (Hor. _A.P._ 78)
>Gramatikistoj interbatalas, kaj la afero ankorau~ restas en proceso.
Collegially,
Steve McCarty
E-mail: <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Japanese-English Home Page:
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/>
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:09:12 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: knowing not AltaVista
In a recent Humanist posting, our long-time colleague Jascha Kessler noted
that Northrop Frye "new not Alta Vista". This is quite true, as my old
teacher did not live long enough. Frye was, however, one of the first at the
University of Toronto to submit a book to a publisher in electronic form
(the publisher then messed it up badly, but that is another story). More
significantly, he said in his opening address to the 1989 ACH/ALLC in
Toronto that if he were beginning his work today he would pay a great deal
of attention to modeling on the computer as a means of understanding
theoretical constructs in literature. As one would expect, the lecture is
a brilliant piece, wonderfully understated. See the volume Research in
Humanities Computing 1, ed. Ian Lancashire (Oxford, 1991), for the printed
version. It took some persuading to get Frye to give that lecture -- he
said he had nothing particular to say about computing.... Who would not be
happy to have such nothing to say? May others say nothing of similar
calibre &c.
So, would Frye now know not Alta Vista and its like? An Alta Vista search on
his name just turned up ca. 400 items, including the homepage of the
Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University in the University of Toronto,
<http://128.100.124.81/fryecent.htm>.
WM
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