September 20, 2001
Dear Thailand-Yunnan Comparative Research Network,
I'm happy to report that with technical help (You remember, perhaps, that the Chiang Mai Meeting was the first time I had even used an overhead projector!) our research network has both a list serve and a web site. The details of how to access each and to send messages to the list or post proposals, ideas, papers to the web site explained below by colleagues who know the ropes. For most of you, all this will be self-explanatory and I regret if most of you feel patronized.
There are only a few things posted to the web page at the moment and they include a copy of the original proposal on "Official and Vernacular Identifications in the Modern World" which was the basis of the Chiang Mai conversations. I look forward to seeing proposals and papers posted for discussion from our colleagues in Chiang Mai and Yunnan, including most of the papers presented at the original meeting. The point, of course, is to use this technology as a basis of intellectual exchange so that our subsequent work benefits from that of our colleages elsewhere. I believe that the logical place to post papers and proposals is to the web page and the logical place for comments on that work is to the list serve. I look forward to a brisk exchange that takes into account the work going on now in Russia, Xinjiang, and France and the Martinique.
Sincerely, Jim Scott
Technical notes:
* To post to this list, send your message to seacrn-list@pantheon.yale.edu or to the much simpler crn@yale.edu It will automatically be distributed to everyone in the Collaborative Research Network.
* To add someone to this list, or to get off the list, email david.corson-knowles@yale.edu
* The Southeast Asia CRN website is located at www.yale.edu/seacrn
* To add something to the website, email the file to david.corson-knowles@yale.edu. All files posted to the list will automatically be uploaded to the website by the end of the week. A program to allow participants to post their own files to the site is under development.
* If you have any questions about the technical aspects of this list and website, or if you have any comments on the content or design of the site, email david.corson-knowles@yale.edu.
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