All,
Perhaps my response was a tad hysterical, but I was there and the
thought of people sitting around their PC's chatting without even a mention
of the horror was a bit more then my head could take...
At 11:46 AM 9/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Ken and All,
>
> Yes, of course, we all do. I have been reading the Richmond and
>Danville newspapers on the web, and the great national disaster
>has almost eclipsed local news on their websites.
> But one thing that differentiates a civilization from a hunting and
>gathering band, is a civilization's ability to do more than one thing
>at a time. We fought WW II, but scholarship, art, gardening,
>architecture, and even burlesque continued to develop.
> Let's keep think about New York and Washington, DC; how can
>we not. But let's also talk about colonial land patents, the extent
>of gunownership in the early Republic, and Reconstruction in
>Virginia. More to the point, let's follow Goethe's advice to
>Steppenwolf in Herman Hesse's novel: to remain sane, "keep your
>sense of humor."
>
>Harold
>
>Date sent: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:19:22 -0400
>From: "Kenneth R. Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Paragraph three of Bellesiles's text - with
>apologies
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Send reply to: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia
>history
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>
> > Does anybody here realize whats happened in NY ?????
> >
> >
> > At 10:24 PM 9/14/01 -0400, kukla wrote:
> > >Here is the complete third paragraph, with apologies once again for
> > >whatever seems to have excised it from this afternoon's and this
> > >evening's early posts. -jk ...... However, there is slightly more to the
> > >story. Those errors are not mine, but the work of someone else. I am
> > >learning about the web fast, moving from no knowledge at the beginning of
> > >the year to a sad experience of its dangers today. I had no idea that
> > >someone could take what is on your web site, alter it, and put it back.
> > >That is what someone did to my site. I do not know when this happened,
> > >for I never looked at my material after I put it on the web -- a terrible
> > >mistake I have learned. When I looked closely this past weekend, I
> > >discovered that my North Carolina materials were not on the site, large
> > >portions of my essay on using probate materials were missing, as were
> > >sections of my bibliographies, and words had been added to my probate
> > >records. Most outrageously, and this would be funny in other
> > >circumstances, someone had gone through the book section of the probate
> > >material and inserted _Cleland's Memoirs_ in several of the book
> > >listings. It took me a while to catch on to that one, and I only did so
> > >because it appeared several times. Al Young kindly informed me that
> > >_Cleland's Memoirs_is the famous early work of pornography, Fanny Hill,
> > >published in the 1760s as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure! Some rather
> > >sophisticated hacker made these religious Vermont, Maine, and Ohio
> > >settlers into devotees of porn. .......
> > >
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