:) --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Iowa Review <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Iowa Review <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: protest about closure of Iowa Review web pages > To: "Michael Szpakowski" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mark E NeuCollins" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 5:38 PM > Dear Mr. Szpakowski, > > Not to worry, we are just moving those files to a new > server and are working on correcting the linking problems. > Sorry for any inconvenience. If you have further questions, > Mark NeuCollins is working directly on the issue as we > speak, and would have more specifics ([email protected]). > > best, > Lynne > -- > The Iowa Review > 308 EPB > Iowa City, IA 52242 > 319-335-0462 > iowareview.org > > > > > > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > > > > > Hello > > as an artist involved in both art and text work for > the net I was somewhat disturbed to hear that the web > edition of the Iowa Review, including all its archives has > been taken offline. > > > > I tested this by trying a link to content there and I > got redirected to the Iowa Review home page. > > > > For a cultural/academic body to > suppress/remove/destroy a body of work like this, if this is > indeed what has happened, beggars belief. > > > > Given the relatively small file sizes involved it > cannnot be a matter of hosting costs and even if there is > perhaps no-one around, for whatever reason, budgetary > &c, to actively develop this part of the site, surely > work published there to date could have been archived and > kept available. > > > > At the very least it could have been offered to online > repositories such as archive.org or Ubuweb. > > > > I hope I am wrong and you are merely reconfiguring > your site prior to making this work available again. > > > > If not I fear many of us will assume that the > barbarians are not merely at the gate but actually inside > and receiving a paycheck. > > > > yours > > > > Michael Szpakowski > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
