MICAT-L Mailing List Shutting Down
By Cary Karp, forwarded by Terry Smythe
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 17:31:57 +0200
From: Cary Karp <ck@nrm.se>
To: Multiple recipients of list MICAT-L <MICAT-L@nrm.se>
Subject: Closing up shop
MICAT-L was established with the intention of its being of utility to the musical instrument conservation and museum communities. Although many people with professional interests in these areas have joined the list, it has never sustained protracted discussion of its target subjects. Indeed, the active members of the list have repeatedly indicated that their primary interests are anything but museum oriented.
With the anniversary of the list's creation at hand, those whose bright idea the whole thing initially was have evaluated the results of their action. We note to our dismay that the MICAT-L ball, for a variety of reasons, has yet to get rolling. More to our satisfaction, we note that the museum community has recently expressed a clear increase of interest in the potential of the e-mail distribution list medium.
Of most particular consequence is the impending establishment of a CIMCIM-L distribution list by ICOM's International Musical Instrument Committee. Also, ICOM's International Conservation Committee is planning to establish an ICOM-CC-L. These new lists, together with the long-successful Conservation Distribution List maintained by Walter Henry, should be able to address the interests lying behind MICAT-L easily as well as MICAT-L ever might hope to.
MICAT-L will therefore be terminated as of Friday, August 11. During the remaining three weeks the list may be used freely for the discussion of anything relevant to what has been said above. You will all be provided with details about the new ICOM lists as they become available. I will leave it up to Walter Henry to provide whatever information he feels suitable about his Conservation DistList.
There are also tentative plans for my being given administrative access to a LISTSERV installation operated by a commercial host sometime during the next few months. If this materializes I will set up an unmoderated list for the discussion of the general concerns of musical instrument makers.
If any of you wish to remove your names from MICAT-L immediately you may do so by addressing a request to
listserv@nrm.se
containing the command
SIGNOFF MICAT-L
You must use the LISTSERV address, only. If you address the request to MICAT-L or to me personally it will be ignored.
Thank you all for your participation in MICAT-L. I hope that those of you who join the other lists find them to be of true utility.
Cary Karp <ck@nrm.se> |
(Message sent Sat 22 Jul 1995, 17:16:03 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.) |
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