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Could a service (like the one provided by the site above) be used to track defunct or changing sites?
Tim Romano
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 02:03 AM
Subject: A plea for scholarship
 
 
> I'm not sure what I'm about to plead for really falls under the traditional
> definitions of "scholarship", but it's the word that comes to mind.
> 
> I edit, for fun, the EP area in the Open Directory (based at
> http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/Poets/P/Pound,_Ezra/ but also
> appearing at Lycos, AOL, Hotbot, and other euphoniously-named and
> lavishly-funded Internet loci)... anyhow; I just now took a pass through
> the listings there, which I'd collated sometime in the first half of 1999,
> and about a quarter of them just aren't there any more.
> 
> This, to use a term neither technical nor literary, sucks.  People who
> publish things on the Internet without feeling some measure of commitment
> to leaving it there once published are suffering from a failure of what
> I can only call basic scholarship.
> 
> In the more technology- and lucre-oriented segments of the Net, people are
> just more careful about maintaining the posts they stick in the electronic
> earth.  Why should humanists be second-rate in this?
> 
> Hrrumph. Back to your regularly scheduled meta-ideologies and
> metametapoetics.  -T.
> 
>