Having sent my message of good wishes to Otfried off-list, I now realise
from all the wonderful tributes I am reading that I missed a brilliant
opportunity to express my gratitude in public for his hard work, his lively
interventions, and ever helpful and friendly messages. So in addition to the
personal message I sent you, Otfried, may I add my tribute publicly to those
that are flooding in - and once again best wishes for all the future holds
in store.
Valery.

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Burroughs
Sent:	27 April 1999 18:06
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Subject:	Re: Personal note

To Otfried and tutti quanti:

The news of Otfried's withdrawal from the list is sad indeed.   It raises
the issue of the significance to any scholarly field of a list of this kind
(I  can hardly even imagine how much hard work Otfried especially put into
it) and the recognition of that significance by those who measure
academic/scholarly performance, too often by out-moded criteria which
discount, needless to say, the wonderfully collegial and collaborative
activity exhibited in this case.  New models of academic interaction and
perfomance are arising, and Otfried is a prophet -- I hope not "clamans in
deserto" for too long.

Charles Burroughs
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University


At 01:23 AM 4/27/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear all, dear friends,
>
>Several years of unsuccessful worldwide academic job-hunt have forced me to
>reconsider my plans, and although I am not yet giving up these plans
>entirely, I nevertheless have responsibilities and obligations towards my
>family, which do not allow me to go on as before. Tomorrow morning I will
>take the train to Heidelberg, and if I can arrange for accomodation very
>quickly, from next week on I will work there for three months as a member
>of the web-team of one of our major scientific publishers (Springer
>Science). I don't know what will come afterwards, but my feeling is not
>that it will be a job in teaching and research.
>
>If possible I will try to stay co-owner of this list (and of
>Medieval-Religion as well) and will fulfill my small duties as such as best
>I can, but as I will need some time to reorganize my new life I recommend
>that in cases of urgency regarding the management of this list you put your
>trust rather in George than in me. In such cases, please direct your
>questions or complaints to <[log in to unmask]>, to
>make sure that you reach both of us at the same time and that the quicker
>of us can respond.
>
>The job in Heidelberg will only be temporary, but Heidelberg is one of the
>most lovely cities of my country, also close to the place (Schwetzingen)
>where as a little child I learned to walk and to speak, whereas Berlin was
>always a sort of exile to me where I did not really achieve very much. So
>please feel invited to share my good hopes for the future rather than my
>regrets of the past.
>
>Yours,
>
>  Otfried
>
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