---- Begin Forwarded Message >Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 03:46:39 -0600 >From: H-Net Central <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: start-of-semester H-Net Announcement > ====================================================== > H-NET: HUMANITIES ON-LINE > ======================================================= > H-Net Announces 70 Scholarly Lists for Humanists > & Social Scientists > August 19, 1995 please circulate > > The Information Revolution is bringing dramatic changes in the > communications infrastructure worldwide, especially the Internet > system that links academics together in a fast, free and friendly > environment. H-Net is an international initiative to assist > scholars to go on-line, using their personal computers. We operate > daily newsletters edited by some 140 scholars in North America, > Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. > H-Net sponsors 70 electronic discussion groups or "lists" by > and for professional scholars in the humanities and social > sciences. 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