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Humanist Archives: Oct. 29, 2018, 4:05 p.m. Humanist 31.732 - relocation and rebirth of Humanist

                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 31, No. 732.
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    [1]    From: Marinella Testori 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 31.730: the relocation and rebirth of Humanist (78)

    [2]    From: davep@davelinux.info
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 31.730: the relocation and rebirth of Humanist (14)


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        Date: 2018-10-29 14:45:28+00:00
        From: Marinella Testori 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 31.730: the relocation and rebirth of Humanist

Dear Willard,

So lovely to hear from you and Humanist again.
Welcome back! We miss you a lot.

Looking to reading you soonest,
many best wishes.

Marinella

Il giorno lun 29 ott 2018 alle ore 15:15 Humanist 
ha scritto:

>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 31, No. 730.
>             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                        www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
>                 Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org
>
>
>     [1]    From: Willard McCarty 
>            Subject: a relocation and rebirth (39)
>
>
>
> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Date: 2018-10-29 14:04:41+00:00
>         From: Willard McCarty 
>         Subject: a relocation and rebirth
>
> Dear members of Humanist,
>
> As you will know from the long silence, with occasional shouts from this
> corner of the world, Humanist as we knew it ceased to work in early July
> of this year. Lamentations from many and thrashings around for help
> followed. Thanks to the superb technical work of Tim Watts and Brian
> Maher of the King's Digital Lab (www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk), the insightful
> leadership of its Director, Dr James Smithies, and approval of the
> necessary work at Faculty level, Humanist works once more. Or so I trust
> as I write this note. My thanks to the several people who volunteered to
> help when help was so badly needed. But it seemed to me, as it did to
> James, that King's College London, my academic home for the last many
> years, was the best place for it.
>
> Brian, Tim and I concluded that the only visible change in Humanist
> should be the interface that I face daily. It has been beautifully and
> functionally redesigned. The daily postings that you see, however,
> remain exactly the same. The subscription mechanism is new, so also
> presentation of the autobiographical statements. The internal workings
> (a.k.a. the back-end) has been completely rebuilt and, Tim tells me,
> simplified and made more robust. The numbering of postings should pick
> up where they left off, with the same volume-number.
>
> The web-page needs changing, of course. Please do report anything that
> doesn't look or function as it should. If this test-message
> works as it should, I will follow with a posting that arrived this
> morning. If you see what I think you will see, please resume sending in
> queries, comments, announcements and the like.
>
> Welcome back!
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor emeritus, Department of
> Digital Humanities, King's College London; Adjunct Professor, Western
> Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20)
>
>
>
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        Date: 2018-10-29 15:21:11+00:00
        From: davep@davelinux.info
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 31.730: the relocation and rebirth of Humanist

Congratulations and thanks to all for their conscientious attention to the
problem.





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