tarbox@apollo.uucp (Brian Tarbox) (04/11/84)
I wish you people who forward items from bboards, especially news of seminars would use some discretion about distribution. It does us out here in Boston no good to here about talks in California!
clark@sdcsla.UUCP (04/12/84)
<> I, for one, think that hearing of seminars and talks, whether I can attend or not, is of interest. Quite simply, I appreciate the chance to hear of the work going on in different areas. It seems that all of the talks have a summary of the discussion topic (and should), which I find enlightening. I do think that it might be worthwhile to have a notice in the headers. Or (oh no, not this), maybe a subgroup, net.ai.talks or something. Discussion? -- Clark
bobgian@psuvax.UUCP (Bob Giansiracusa) (04/13/84)
I am all for continuing to post seminar announcements. I really like hearing about what my colleagues are up to. The summaries are interesting and give me new ideas occasionally. Sometimes I hear about new work I'd like to look into, and the headers (or talk giver's name) provides me with the leads I need. Please continue. Bob Giansiracusa -- Computer Science Dept, Penn State U, 814-865-9507 (ofc), 814-234-4375 (home) Arpa: bobgian%PSUVAX1.BITNET@Berkeley UUCP: bobgian@psuvax.UUCP -or- ..!allegra!psuvax!bobgian
mpturchan@watrose.UUCP (mpturchan) (04/13/84)
I have to agree with Clark on these BBoard summaries. It gives most of us a way of seeing who is talking where and about what related to A.I. Keep them in a separate newsgroup (net.ai.talks) if you have to but KEEP them!! Mark Turchan (University of Waterloo)
brownell@harvard.UUCP (Dave Brownell) (04/14/84)
Make this one a vote for 'net.ai.talks' -- seems like almost half
the stuff in net.ai is seminar/talk announcements. I just don't
have time to read them all, but I don't think these announcements
should be curtailed.
Dave Brownell
{genrad,allegra,ihnp4,ima,amd70}!wjh12!sequoia!brownellrcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (04/16/84)
The problem with BBoard items that probably hits most people who object
(myself included) is the way they're structured - you have to read most of
a screenload to get past all of the formatting and layout junk. How about
a more compact format, one which puts the title and abstract in the Subject
line and at the very top of the article (with "Seminar:" in the subject)?
Then put the scheduling info further down.
This group, above all others save perhaps cog-eng, should be able to figure
out how to present information to humans in a quickly digestible form.
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