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: [email protected] >Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:39:44 +1000 >To: Daryl Povey <[email protected]> >From: Toby Andrew Seton Durden <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: SW Victorian War History Web Site >Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > >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/

Daryl Do you want to give us an email address/person to whom we can all express our disappointment if we so wish? We might manage to reverse a decision by weight of numbers. Cheers Beryl Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl Povey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:13 AM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] South West Victorian War History Web Site > 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.

Hi Daryl, As far as I can remember, the Hamilton Historical Society homepage contained pretty well the same information as parts of the South West Victoria's War Heritage site (at least as far as Hamilton interests lay) - not sure. Check their new site - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist - and you can email them from there if needs be. Daryl Povey wrote: > 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: [email protected] > >Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:39:44 +1000 > >To: Daryl Povey <[email protected]> > >From: Toby Andrew Seton Durden <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: SW Victorian War History Web Site > >Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > > > >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/ > > ==== AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Digby Hotspur Merino and Surrounding Areas > http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/digby/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 -- Regards, Unless stated to the contrary at the beginning of the text, this message may be considered to be in the public domain and may be copied, distributed, forwarded, etc. without infringing upon any copyright to which I may normally be entitled. Ian Marr (A.I.G.S 11528) 10.5m above sea-level at 38°23'15"S by 142°36'04"E I live in my own little world - but that's okay, at least I'm well known here. Eddress: [email protected] Home Page: http://members.datafast.net.au/~marrtronics/ Extensive S.W. Victorian Cemetery Indexes on above site. List Administrator: DIVENS, FRUISH, ROOF, WINFIELD on Rootsweb.com Webmaster for Warrnambool Family History Group & Hamilton History Centre