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From: Denis Linehan CGF List Administrator !!!!***Deletion of Crit-Geog-Forum Archived Messages Imminent***!!!! :-( On Monday next, July 13th, Mailbase will be deleting three months of archived messages dating from April,May and June 1996. Apologies for not informing subscribers about this earlier but I only found out myself today. The debates over these three months dealt mainly with Shell/RGS issues, proposals to devise the Critical Geography Conference at Vancouver and arguments about the content and access to this Conference. The archived messages can be found at: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum For the...(how should I put this?) "Organisation" known as the CGF the deletion of this files poses some questions. -Should `we' be bothered about the deletion of these messages? -If `we' should, can someone think of some way of preserving them over the long-term ? For many reasons I personally think they should be preserved. For example, some subscribers will have read the innovative and provocative piece in the current issue of _Society and Space_ about the history, meaning and consequences of the Critical Geography Conference at Vancouver. Interestingly the role of Crit-Geog-Forum in stimulating this conference and in raising issues about participation is not given the significance in the piece that I think it deserved. Partly as a result of this, and partly as a result of the tortured moralism which pervades some of the article, the possibilities of the internet and the WWW in developing an international Critical Geography Organisation are negatively portrayed. On Monday a significant amount of the record of the role of the CGF in developing and shaping the conference will disappear, and with I think some of the potential, not yet realised, of this "Organisation". Are subscribers okay with this? Should we be happy to settle with the official histories about Critical Geography which will be expressed in Society and Space and elsewhere. Or in preserving `our' history can we begin to find some foothold for the future ? Denis Linehan Geography Department University of Wales Swansea Wales %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%