Joan Beaumont Dean of Arts Deakin University Dear Joan It is with regret that we received the news listed in the email below of the decommissioning of the South West Victoria's War History web site which was hosted by your faculty. I received this notification after enquiring to the IT Manager regarding its non-functioning for a number of weeks. We would be very interested to know the reasons for the loss of this valuable local history information site for south western Victoria. Is the information lost or is it being transferred to some other body to host in the future? I write a number of web sites related to south west history, eg Ballarat Genealogical Society http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ South West Victorian History http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/digby/ which illustrate my interest and involvement in the area of local history in south west Victoria. It is to be hoped that a Faculty of Arts at a local University would be interested in promoting the study of local history through the hosting of such web sites. I have left the correspondence relating to this issue attached to the bottom of this email. Regards Daryl Povey Ballarat & District Genealogical Society >X-Sender: tobyd@mail.deakin.edu.au >Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:39:44 +1000 >To: Daryl Povey <povey@sebas.vic.edu.au> >From: Toby Andrew Seton Durden <tobyd@deakin.edu.au> >Subject: Re: SW Victorian War History Web Site >Cc: druse@deakin.edu.au, markr@deakin.edu.au, deanarts@deakin.edu.au > >Dear Daryl, > >This site has been decommissioned at the request of our Dean. A revised >index page has recently been posted which may have some useful links for >your reference: > >http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/swwh/ > >Kind regards, > >Toby Durden > >At 11:54 AM 20/10/2003 +1000, you wrote: >>IT / Web Managers >>Faculty of Arts >>Deakin University >> >>Interested to know what has happened with the South West Victorian War >>History Web Site which operated from the Faculty of Arts Web Server at: >> >> http://www.deakin.edu.au/fac_arts/swwh/ >> >>This web site has been a very useful component of the history available >>on the web related to South-Western Victoria. >> >>At the present time some of the web site seems to be on the server and >>some parts appear to be missing. >> >>Regards >>Daryl Povey >>Ballarat & District Genealogical Society > > >IT Manager >Faculty of Arts >Deakin University, Victoria, Australia > >tel: +61 3 5227 2404 > >www.deakin.edu.au/fac_arts/faculty/