...a good dose of reality?  A wake up call?  whatever one might call it,
thank you for this eloquent reminder that sometimes the "old fashioned"
is best!  The web is a great tool, but, for reasons you've stated, if
may never replace the printed word.  Thank you for reminding us of this!
 
VivianLea Stevens
Curator, Historian & Reeneactor
 
Karolyn Smardz wrote:
>
> Dear List:
>
> I inadvertently erased the message that used the above term for people who
> cannot be reached via e-mail or internet.  So this is going out generally
> rather than specifically, for which I beg the forgiveness of the other members
> of HISTARCH.
>
> Please remember that there is historical archaeology going on in places where
> electricity is not readily available, let alone high-tech computer equipment
> and internet access.  It is essential that we remember that Web access is a
> luxury at least partly confined to the developed, rather than the developing
> world, and there are even people in North America who can't afford it!  Or do
> we want to leave these people out?
>
> Having just returned from the World Archaeological Congress, this was brought
> home to me when the Executive was debating the efficiency of distributing pre-
> circulated papers via the Web.  A quiet voice from one of the members of an
> African nation said, "Please, I have never seen the Web, and I don't know what
> e-mail is".
>
> Luddites?
>
> KSmardz