Histarch is a valuable tool to all professional and avocational historical archaeologists.  Please let Anita continue her moderation as list owner without giving her grief .  Anita provides a service to us that is without parallel and is actually much better than many of the other arch related lists I belong to.  Her moderation is very fair-handed and carefully considered.  She does an excellent job of keeping the list and topics focused. 



dan allen 

staff arch / president 

cumberland research group, inc. 


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From: "Lucy Wayne" <[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:46:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: Should HISTARCH continue? 

I agree. 

Lucy Wayne 

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>I second that. There are a lot of us who read and lurk who would miss it if 
>you quit. 
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> Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 7:31 am 
> Subject: Re: Should HISTARCH continue? 
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> Anita - 
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> Thanks for running this list. Please don't get discouraged and give it up. 
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> all appreciate it and learn from it. I for one am not in an academic 
> environment, so this one of the few places I can interact with other 
> professionals who consider themselves "Historical Archaeologists."? In my 
> opinion, you are the greatest, and moderate the list wisely. 
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> From: Anita Cohen-Williams <[log in to unmask]> 
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> Sent: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 6:51 pm 
> Subject: Should HISTARCH continue? 
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> Considering all the discussion around whether or not Marco Polo should 
> be included in a discussion of Historical Archaeology (i.e. 
> archaeology of the modern world, 1400 forward), I am wondering if I 
> should continue running HISTARCH. 
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> I have been running this discussion list alone since 1994 without pay 
> from any source, as a labor of love. I am not a professor nor 
> librarian in any university, the SHA does not pay me (although they do 
> use this forum), and I am not an employee of any governmental agency. 
> Nor am I paid to run ArchaeoSeek, although several people have stepped 
> up and donated monies for the $20 a month that it costs. 
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> In light of that, and the fact that, while I do keep an eye on the 
> discussions and attempt to keep them on topic, this list is NOT 
> moderated nor censored. Considering the current tone of this latest 
> discussion, I am wondering if it all was a waste. 
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> Anita Cohen-Williams 
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