mack (02/24/83)
In response to my proposal (ubc-vision.256) to create the newsgroups
can.ai and can.ai.cscsi I received 14 mail responses. They were all
positive with a few minor quibbles. The two tier scheme is awkward
but probably necessary. One person misunderstood the purpose of can.ai.cscsi
as being for the society's executive only. If that were the case then
I agree that mail would be better. The purpose of that group is to
allow the members to communicate with each other about matters relevant
to the society. At last count there were 280 members but we don't know (yet)
how many have access to Usenet. Others liked the separation so they
could get general material without the society-specific stuff. Two people
pointed out that the overlap between can.ai and net.ai may be a problem.
Some machine downstream from us is not forwarding net.ai so I don't know
how much traffic it gets. I think the best thing to do is just to go
ahead and create the newsgroups since there is sufficient interest.
Look for can.ai and can.ai.cscsi appearing shortly at your neighbourhood
Unix site. I urge you to contribute to the discussions in those groups;
we are a small community spread over a large country. Think of this as
an experiment in decentralised electronic democracy.
Alan Mackworth
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