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From: "David Wason" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Re: Lecture and Tutorials for the next month
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:34:31 -0000
References: <008501c3db75$7ddf0410$8bf9b251@Hockerley> <3.0.1.32.20040115222518.0164fdf0@POP3.demon.co.uk>


GEOFFREY wrote:
> Lecturers have a right to refuse and unfortunately they do.

Are lecturers not paid?
Given that there's a fee to attend, I assume they are. (If not, they should
be).
Are those of us who live far from the society not members who pay
subscriptions to the society?
Does our digital age not allow easy access to information?

Well then, why not make it a condition for being paid a fee to make a
lecture to the society that the lecture itself may be disseminated to those
members who cannot physically attend? Doesn't seem too complicated to me.

There would be those who pay to be there physically, and those who pay to be
there virtually.
The copyright argument is irrelevant. If they are lecturing to members of
the SOG, what difference does it make whether members are actually there or
not? Do your lecturers ban people taking notes? I wouldn't know, you see, as
I can't afford to go there).

But I'd love to know what, for example, Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake had to say
about the 1901 census.

CHRIS WATTS, meanwhile, writes:

>There is, I suggest, a very significant difference between the academic and
>the FH environment. The former, certainly in the scientific field, is
>concerned with the sharing of information to push back the frontiers of
>knowledge. The cry of the genealogical world seems regretably to be one of
>"me, me, me; free, free, free".

I'm astonished. What does this mean?
I'd have thought that the SOG is concerned above all with sharing
information.

GEOFFREY adds
>To make remarks about quill pens and the Society not understanding is
>insulting to the officers and committee members who have tried to get
>something going for several years.

Oops. I did add a smiley. Pardon me for breathing, as my father-in-law
always used to say.
They haven't got very far though..... : -)



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