petrie@nicolas.ACA.MCC.COM (Charles Petrie) (01/12/90)
Ever wonder what happened to the moderated AIList? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 89 12:38 EST From: nick@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU Subject: AIList To: pwtc!hamscher@labrea.stanford.edu cc: slug@Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM In-Reply-To: <19891228231226.1.HAMSCHER@YEN> Message-ID: <19891229173811.3.NICK@CHIPS.LCS.MIT.EDU> > Up until a couple of years ago there was a digest run by Ken Laws of > SRI, called AIList. Up until a few months ago, actually. I took over from Ken in the summer of '88. After much soul-searching and discussion with some folks here at MIT, I came to the conclusion that the charter was just too broad to be of any use to people doing real research. I know of twenty-one *other* lists that deal with AI topics, in more-or-less specific detail. Here's the list ... AG-EXP-L%NDSUVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU AI-CHI <wiley!ai-chi@LLL-LCC.ARPA> AI-ED@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU CA@THINK.COM CLP.X@XEROX.COM CVNET%YORKVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU CYBSYS-L@BINGVMB.BITNET FINEART%ecs.umass.edu@RELAY.CS.NET foNETiks <r34334%UQAM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> IRList <fox@VTOPUS.CS.VT.EDU> LANTRA-L%FINHUTC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU NEURON%CSL.TI.COM@RELAY.CS.NET NL-KR@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU PROLOG[-HACKERS]@SUSHI.STANFORD.EDU simulation@UFL.EDU comp.simulation (UseNet newsgroup) simulator-users@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU simulator-bugs@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU Symbolic Math <lseward@RAND-UNIX.ARPA> tech-concepts%fi.edu@RELAY.UPENN.EDU VISION-LIST@ADS.ARPA I have more information on these (culled from the list-of-lists) which I will be happy to send to anyone who asks. Cheers, - nick [once ailist-request@ai.ai.mit.edu] ------- 7-Jan-90 11:10:58-CST,1038;000000000001 Mail-From: AI.PETRIE created at 7-Jan-90 11:10:54 Date: Sun 7 Jan 90 11:10:54-CST From: Charles Petrie <AI.PETRIE@MCC.COM> Subject: AIList To: nick@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu cc: slug@Warbucks.ai.sri.com, pwtc!hamscher@labrea.stanford.edu, clive@MCC.COM, rich@MCC.COM Message-ID: <12556360982.24.AI.PETRIE@MCC.COM> You took over from Ken Laws in the summer of '88 and let AIList lapse by default without notice or discussion. AIList was an institution which Ken Laws supported magnificently. Who were you to unilaterally decide to let it drop? Repeatedly last year I sent messages to AIlist-request asking what was going on with the AIList. No reply. Nada. It was plain flat unethical of you to stop AIlist without asking. It takes a lot of gall to come back a year later and list other mail lists that we can subscribe to instead, and on Slug at that. At least you should have had the grace to have announced your decision over AIlist and given someone else a chance to pick up the work. Charles Petrie -------