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Subject: Re: Humanities domain
Keywords: hum baby
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Date: 25 Jan 90 09:45:49 GMT
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In article <1990Jan25.081719.2749@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>  "Sci" was supposed to be for recognized sciences, not physical
>sciences per se. But the structure could be revised in various
>ways. One kluge which would not be too difficult to implement
>would be a new top-level domain "hum" for humanities. Thus,
>hum.history, hum.philosophy.misc, hum.arts.literature, etc.

That looks like an _excellent_ idea.  The use of computers in the
humanities is ever increasing, and a top level domain would allow
schools (in particular) interested in these applications to focus
their interests more easily on pertinent articles, while allowing
those establishments subscribing only for commercially useful
information (and not finding it there) to select against such articles
more easily.

Of course, this could circle back to the (perpetual) arguments aobut
the need for a liberal education for, say, engineers, but let's not,
OK?

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