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From: handleym@apple.com (Maynard Handley)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Apple Computer
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 18:02:54 -0700
Message-ID: <handleym-0710961802540001@a17-202-32-93.apple.com>

In article <hrd8yvv25u.fsf@branagh.lanl.gov>, John Turner
<turner@branagh.lanl.gov> wrote:

> ecale@cray.com (David Ecale) writes:
> 
> > (PS.  The only media that I know about that has survived
> > 1000s of years is stone (the Rosetta Stone is an example) and clay (baked
> > in the case of Babylonian Cuniform and unbaked in the case of Minoan
> > Linear B).

And it's pure luck that we can read these (and Mayan). Other inscribed
media (most obviously Hittite script) we can't read.

My point is simply to point out that obsessing about your physical medium
is silly if you don't have the rest of the infra-structure in place to
understand whet you actually wrote.

Maynard

-- 
My opinion only

