HNSOURCE now open for business.
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Reply-To: Medieval History <MEDIEV-L@UKANVM.BITNET>
Sender: Medieval History <MEDIEV-L@UKANVM.BITNET>
From: LHNELSON --UKANVM <LHNELSON@UKANVM.BITNET>
Subject: HNSOURCE now open for business.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HNSOURCE
The Department of History and Academic Computer Services of the University of
Kansas HNSOURCE under the auspices of The History Network to serve as a
centralinformation server for historians. The server presently provides
connections toon-line library catalogues through a HYTELNET facility, to some
data bases and FTP sites that contain materials relevant to historical
studies, as well as a full text document archive, access to world-wide
gophers, several works on the use of the Internet, some Gutenberg electronic
texts, and other facilities.
The History Network intends that HNSOURCE eventually provide connections to
allpublic access facilities of use to historians, and to serve as a point of
collection for materials that historians wish to share with the public. A
bulletin board feature is ready to accommodate calls for papers, conference
notices, job announcements and the like. HNSOURCE is a hypertext facility with
switching facilities provided by LYNX. It is intended to offer a maximum of
ease and simplicity of use, and comments, criticisms, and suggestions may be
made to the operators from within the system
To reach HNSOURCE:
TELNET hnsource.cc.ukans.edu login: history no password required.
Please feel free to browse and copy whatever you wish. We would particularly
appreciate your comments and suggestions, as well as pointers to useful
sources and sites, and the donation of whatever materials you think might be of
use to others. Also, please think of HNSOURCE when you wish to make
announcements of any sort, or if you wish to develop a professional
electronic service of any kind. The more widely this facility is used, the
more useful it will become.
Operators:
Marc Becker (MABECKER@UKANVM) Department of History University of Kansas Lynn
H. Nelson (LHNELSON@UKANVM) Department of History University of Kansas
Snailmail:
The History Network Department of History 3001 Wescoe Hall University of
Kansas Lawrence KS 66045-2130º
Lynn_Nelson
Department of History
University of Kansas
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