[SIGCIS-Members] UK resource guide now completed -- from Jame Sumner

[Thomas Haigh]

[Forwarded from James Sumner -- james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk.]

Dear listmembers

The full version of "History of computing in the UK: a resource guide"
is now up on the SIGCIS site, joining Tom Haigh's more general resource
guide and Chigusa Kita's Japanese listing. Please take a look:

http://www.sigcis.org/britain

Suggested additions and corrections are very welcome -- as are comments
on the arrangement and scope. Putting together this kind of finding aid
always involves a lot of subjective decisions about what to include and
how to present it. For the record, my ground rules have been

- to offer starting-points for researchers, rather than trying to be
comprehensive

- to follow the shape of the literature, rather than trying to give
balanced coverage to areas where not much has been written

- to focus on secondary sources, listing primary sources only when
they're particularly rewarding and/or the secondary source base is
particularly light

- not to exclude anything purely on the grounds that it's difficult to
access.

I hope I've managed to come up with something most people will find
useful. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed material so far!

Best
James


On 17/12/2010 18:57, Thomas Haigh wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> Did you try to send the message from the new account? I don't remember
> seeing it...
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:14 AM
> To: Thomas Haigh
> Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>
> Good idea. Page has been updated; I'll announce it to the list now.
>
> Best
> James
>
> On 01/12/2010 21:17, Thomas Haigh wrote:
>> OK. I added this address to the list, but turned off mail delivery for it
> so
>> it should be good for sending but will not fill up with extra copies of
> the
>> list messages.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:44 AM
>> To: Thomas Haigh
>> Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>>
>> Hi Tom
>>
>> Sorry -- I'd forgotten this detail. But I doubt I can get anything done
>> to fix it at this end. I'll drop a line to IT services, whose typical
>> approach to anything non-obvious is to reassign it to someone I can't
>> contact directly and ignore it forever.
>>
>> There's james at jbsumner.com , I suppose -- I try not to use this much,
>> but it will do the job. Please set it up as accepted.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> James
>>
>> On 30/11/2010 22:19, Thomas Haigh wrote:
>>> Hello James,
>>>
>>> What I recall finding when we checked before is that this was a case of
>> your
>>> email server being unable to find the sigcis.org domain or communicate
>> with
>>> the SMTP receiver running on it (failing on RCPT as it tries to
establish
>>> the recipient) and therefore refusing to transmit the message.
>>>
>>> It is not that the SIGCIS listserv receiving the message and rejecting
it
>>> for some reason. That makes it much harder to fix, as it's a problem
that
>> is
>>> taking place in the interaction between the two servers that is for some
>>> reason only afflicting your email server and maybe a few others.
>>>
>>> I am cc'ing Brent to see if he has any ideas.
>>>
>>> As a workaround do you have another email account you can use for
SIGCIS?
>> I
>>> can manually add it as an accepted sender to both lists.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:07 PM
>>> To: Thomas Haigh
>>> Subject: Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> This is evidently a persistent problem. Checking my mail archives shows
>>> that I haven't been able to get a message through since July.
>>>
>>> Please could you forward the message?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> James
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:09 +0000
>>> From: Mail Delivery System<Mailer-Daemon at tranquility.mcc.ac.uk>
>>> To:<james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk>
>>>
>>> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>>>
>>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>>>
>>>       exec at sigcis.org
>>>         SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT
> TO:<exec at sigcis.org>:
>>>         host mailstore1.secureserver.net [72.167.238.201]:
>>>         550 #5.1.0 Address rejected exec at sigcis.org
>>>
>>> ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
>>>
>>> Return-path:<james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk>
>>> Received: from rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.196])
>>> 	by tranquility.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
>>> 	(Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD))
>>> 	(envelope-from<james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk>)
>>> 	id 1PMoPm-000A6r-2u
>>> 	for exec at sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:06 +0000
>>> Received: from [82.152.251.77] (port=4690 helo=[10.0.0.11])
>>> 	by rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
>>> 	(Exim 4.69)
>>> 	(envelope-from<james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk>)
>>> 	id 1PMoPl-0004YS-Tr
>>> 	for exec at sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:05 +0000
>>> Message-ID:<4CF2C3C4.8020902 at manchester.ac.uk>
>>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:04 +0000
>>> From: James Sumner<james.sumner at manchester.ac.uk>
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12)
>>> Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> To: exec at sigcis.org
>>> Subject: UK resource guide again
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>> X-Authenticated-Sender: James Sumner from ([10.0.0.11])
>> [82.152.251.77]:4690
>>> X-Authenticated-From: James.Sumner at manchester.ac.uk
>>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> As (repeatedly) promised, a revised version is up as a draft -- not
>>> publicly visible -- at
>>> http://www.sigcis.org/node/113
>>>
>>> Comments welcome. Do we think this is now in a fit state to be promoted
>>> to the membership? (If so, could someone please tell me how to make it
>>> appear as a link from the main site?)
>>>
>>> Best
>>> James
>>>
>>
>