budd@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Budd) (06/30/89)
Following my recent questions about the posting of papers to the net, somebody suggested that the appropriate newsgroup already existed, namely comp.doc. As an experiment, I've posted both the papers I recently advertised in this newsgroup to comp.doc. If this is successful (that is, if people receive them and I don't get flamed too badly), I will continue and I would strongly encourage others to do likewise. The sense of the remarks I received seemed to indicate that the proper protocol would be to post a short announcement, maybe even an abstract, in the newsgroup of interest (say this one), and the complete paper in comp.doc. Let me reiterate that I view this as sort of the literary equivalent of beta testing; this isn't publication really, but rather a way of getting ideas quickly disseminated and feedback that can (if desired) be used in a later, more polished version of the paper submitted to a ``real'' journal. --tim budd (budd@cs.orst.edu)