From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Classics available?
Date: 4 Sep 92 04:54:38 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

In article <1992Sep3.211754.12789@cs.cornell.edu> allan@cs.cornell.edu (James Allan) writes:
>Does anyone know of any internet facilities that would be useful to
>someone studying classics (greek and latin)?  I'm trying to convince a
>friend that there is advantage to using the net, and something like
>that would be an added incentive (she's a classics prof).  I suppose
>that would include mailing lists, newsgroups, or on-line texts.


Hi,
I just  did a quick search through wais and i found the following source;
it sounds like a good place to start.  If you need a wais client you
can get one /pub/wais on sunsite.unc.edu by anonymous ftp.

for those not familiar with it, wais stands for Wide Area Information
Service, and allows fast searching through indexed documents on remote
machines.  I think its rather nifty, Check it out. :)

jem.

-----8< wais source file------
(:source 
 :version  3 
 :ip-address "147.31.254.130"
 :ip-name "cs.widener.edu"
 :database-name "bmcr"
 :tcp-port 8000
 :cost 0.00 
 :cost-unit :free 
 :maintainer "brendan@cs.widener.edu"
 :description "The _Bryn Mawr Classical Review_ is a review journal of books in Greek and
Latin classics.

  In its new format the BMCR will distribute reviews as they become
available:  that is, as soon as they have been submitted and gone through
the minimal editorial massaging (inserting missing commas, removing
libelous assertions) that we do.  This means that e-subscribers will see
periodic mail messages with a subject line something like:  `BMCR:
Nietzsche reviews Wilamowitz' -- you get the idea.  Subscribers will be
able to collect and download these as they come; at regular intervals
(every couple of months), reviews already e-published will be gathered
together, printed, and published in hard copy form.

  But e-BMCR will not be limited to reviews.  From the outset, we had hoped
that readers of BMCR would be stimulated to contribute a variety of other
novelties:  `Seen Elsewhere' (news items, reports of publications in other
fields of interest to classicists), `Definite Articles' (reports of recent
or not-so-recent scholarly articles that seem to be of particular merit,
especially those that for reason of place of publication might escape wide
notice), and the occasional quotation from Ennodius.  Submissions in that
vein have been disappointingly few; but for the electronic medium, we
think and hope it will be easier to stimulate discussion.

Reactions to reviews, for example, will be eagerly received (and we note
with approval the favorable reaction to our incipient habit of publishing
two or more reviews of the same book:  let a hundred flowers bloom!).
Subject to limitations of space in the hard copy publication, the `Best of
e-BMCR' will appear in print in due time.

  It should be emphasized, however, that we do not envision e-BMCR becoming
yet another electronic chat-line.  If you are familiar with unmoderated
lists (like IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1, which classicists should know about and many
should listen to) or moderated lists (like HUMANIST@BROWNVM:  ditto), you
will regard e-BMCR as a `heavily-moderated list'.  All submissions other
than reviews will go to the electronic editor (O'Donnell), who will collect
them, do minimal editing, perhaps write back to contributors and suggest
enhancements, and then distribute them in collected and readable form.
Thus you will be spared not only the random queries (`Does anybody know how
to do Greek in WordPerfect?') but also the flurry of fourteen different
answers cascading into your e-mail box, several of which may actually be
germane to the query.  Queries will be welcome, but they will be relayed by
the editor, and responses will be collected, winnowed, checked against each
other, and `published' in a compact and usable form.

  In all, then, we would expect that e-BMCR would trespass on your e-mail
box no more than three or four times a week with a single message; the
total quantity of distribution will not be markedly greater than what is
now the case with `old' BMCR, but instead of sending out 200K pigs
bimonthly, we will send out convenient packs of pork rinds as the craving
dictates.  We hope that this relatively heavy editorial hand will maintain
a level of quality and interest that will encourage subscribers to read the
relatively small number of items they receive from us, not zap them unread
along with binsful of other e-mail, as many of us do so much of the time
already.

*** To Subscribe: ***

Send a mail message to MAILSERV@BRYNMAWR or (Internet form)
MAILSERV@BRYNMAWR.EDU, with nothing written on the SUBJECT line and a
single message line reading as follows:

 SUB BMCR-L Your Name Here

Your name should be given in the form in which your e-mail account is
registered.  There is no need to add your e-mail address:  the server takes
it automatically from the header to your message. (Note please:  Bryn Mawr
College does not have the machinery or software to mount a LISTSERV of the
sort you may be familiar with: the MAILSERV software is somewhat similar to
a LISTSERV but less powerful and less interactive; so please note the
idiosyncrasy of our instructions.  In particular, if you need to stop
e-BMCR mailings, you must UNSUB the list, you cannot do a NOMAIL command as
you can with a LISTSERV.)

*** Submissions: ***

  To submit material for e-BMCR, to propose books you might review, or to
complain about editorial heavy-handedness, send ordinary e-mail to any of
the following addresses (Bitnet form first, then Internet):

 BMCR@BRYNMAWR -- BMCR@BRYNMAWR.EDU
 HAM@BRYNMAWR -- HAM@BRYNMAWR.EDU
 JODONNEL@PENNSAS -- JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU

Snailmail address (esp. for hardcopy subscription requests containing
checks!):

 *Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
 Thomas Library
 Bryn Mawr College
 Bryn Mawr, Pa.  19010
 Daniel Tompkins (Temple University)

*** Contact: ***

 BMCR@BRYNMAWR -- BMCR@BRYNMAWR.EDU
 HAM@BRYNMAWR -- HAM@BRYNMAWR.EDU
 JODONNEL@PENNSAS -- JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU
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