mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (11/16/84)
[First, I'd like to correct the previous article. Due to a postnews bug, the Kermit announcement appeared to come from me. It was actually from Mark Vasoll at Oklahoma State: ucbvax!mtxinu!ea!okstate!vasoll] [Second, in case anyone got the impression that pathalias was written by the UUCP project, please note that it was originally written by Steven Bellovin, with improvements made by Peter Honeyman, neither of whom is part of the project. The project distributed it in response to an overwhelming number of requests for pathalias.] The poll question: Are calls-for-papers appropriate for net.announce? The results of the poll are as follows: Yes: 39 No: 19 No, put them in net.cfp: 7 No, put them in net.research: 6 Yes, but only until there are lots of them: 7 Yes, but only if they are UNIX or CS related: 5 It is pretty clear that most people don't mind having them here. There was, however, a good deal of concern that net.announce will become saturated with CFP's and this will cause people to unsubscribe. With this in mind, I'm going to take the 5th option. I'll accept calls for papers for net.announce (but only for conferences having something to do with computers or closely related fields) but I'll mark them as CFP's in the subject, and include some information in the subject (such as the title of the conference.) Eventually, I suppose the volume will be too great, and people will choose to unsubscribe. If you are tempted to unsubscribe or otherwise think the time has come, send me mail. When I start to get a lot of mail, I'll create net.papers (or net.cfp or whatever name people like) and refer all CFP's there. I reserve the right to edit the posting. In particular, I request that posters start the message body with useful information (such as the date and location of the conference, the topic, conference title, etc) instead of the usual content free "CALL FOR PAPERS." Remember that some people will only see the subject, others will only see the subject plus the first few lines of the message, and they base the n-key decision on those first few lines. I ask that you enclose the subject you would like to see used, such as Subject: Call for Papers: June 1985 POPL Conference in Wankers Corner, Ore. I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly apologise to Jeffrey Ullman, whose PODS conference call-for-papers I referred to net.research. This turns out to be the only CFP I didn't accept for net.announce.