[split] About knowing the history of Voynich research

[ReneZ]

Wow I got a little carried away with that last post of mine.

No harm done  

The problem of not being able to know all (or even much) about past research was already lamented by D'Imperio in the 1970's, and obviously by now the amount of 'past research' has exploded in comparison.

There is no solution to that. The only thing one can really do is to keep in mind that one's observation may not be new, and try to avoid making too grand claims. If nobody knew about something, this will appear from people's reaction.

There is a lot of research described in several archives, which is not online, and they include a real treasure of information (see e.g. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Only a handful of people know what is in there.

The old mailing list history is only partially available, and it is very difficult to read. The majority of it can be safely skipped, but there is also some very good stuff in there.
My web site has only a fraction of that.