Laws@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA (Ken Laws) (09/16/86)
I'm back from vacation and almost have the mail streams under control again. This issue clears out "old business" messages relating to the discussions in early August. I'll follow with digests flushing the accumulated queries, Usenet replies, news items, conference and seminar abstracts, and bibliographic citations -- spread out a bit so that I'm not deluged with mailer bounce messages from readers who have dropped without notification. Incidentally, about 30 people signed up for direct distribution this month despite the inactivity of the list. (Most of the additions for the last year have been on BITNET, often in clusters as new universities join the net or become aware of the Arpanet digests. Most Arpanet and CSNet sites are now using bboards and redistribution lists or are making use of the Usenet mod.ai/net.ai distribution.) I plan to pass along only an abbreviated announcement for conferences that have already been announced in the NL-KR, IRList, or Prolog lists -- you can contact the message author if you need the full text. (Note that this may reduce the yield of keyword searches through the AIList archive; future historians will have to search the other lists to get a full picture of AI activity. Anyone building an intelligent mail-screening system should also incorporate cross-list linkages. Any such screening system that can understand and coordinate these message streams deserves a Turing award.) -- Ken Laws -------