jmlang@watmath.waterloo.edu (Je'ro^me M. Lang) (05/06/91)
In article <CSUYX.91May4191028@lily.warwick.ac.uk> csuyx@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Wally..) writes: > >I can see how this might confuse some mathematicians, but uw.general is a >University of Warwick general newsgroup. Not a maths forum in disguise. > >Regards, > Wally.. > Hi Wally and all those that are confused by uw.general. When one posts simultaneously to a local group and a netwide group with a non local distribution, the name of the local group gets carried along in the list of newsgroups. It gets carried on the back of that netwide newsgroup and drops into a local group somewhere else that happens to share the same name as the one in the header. Now, the postfix "general" is a very common one. And many universities have the uw prefix. For the uw.general, usually it is the University of W(aterloo) and University of W(ashington) that get hit with this bug. (probably since were are on the same continent ...) [By the way, this is Waterloo in Ontario Canada, not the other one in Quebec or the one across the big puddle] Now, for the "math" discussion bit: UW (Waterloo) just so happens to have a Mathematics Faculty with the departments of Pure Math, Applied Math, Combinatorics and Optimization, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Computer Science. Also the Math Faculty has all sorts of links with industry, math contests, technical math journals, etc... We earn bizarre degrees like BMATH, MMATH and there is even a DMATH (given only honoris causa) Math is very common in this neck of the woods ... -- Je'ro^me M. Lang || jmlang@watmath.uwaterloo.ca Dept of Applied Math || jmlang@violet.uwaterloo.ca U of Waterloo || The university that tells me what I can't read "Citoyen de la re'publique du Madawaska" = = 16 Floreal An CXCIX
csuat@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Pete "Gandalf" Favelle) (05/08/91)
on 5 May 91 23:52:39 GMT, jmlang@watmath.waterloo.edu (Je'ro^me M. Lang) said: > In article <CSUYX.91May4191028@lily.warwick.ac.uk> csuyx@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Wally..) writes: >> >>I can see how this might confuse some mathematicians, but uw.general is a >>University of Warwick general newsgroup. Not a maths forum in disguise. >> >>Regards, >> Wally.. >> > Hi Wally and all those that are confused by uw.general. > When one posts simultaneously to a local group and a netwide group with > a non local distribution, the name of the local group gets carried > along in the list of newsgroups. It gets carried on the back of that > netwide newsgroup and drops into a local group somewhere else that > happens to share the same name as the one in the header. > Now, the postfix "general" is a very common one. And many universities > have the uw prefix. > For the uw.general, usually it is the University of W(aterloo) and > University of W(ashington) that get hit with this bug. (probably > since were are on the same continent ...) > [By the way, this is Waterloo in Ontario Canada, not the other one in > Quebec or the one across the big puddle] > Now, for the "math" discussion bit: UW (Waterloo) just so happens > to have a Mathematics Faculty with the departments of > Pure Math, Applied Math, Combinatorics and Optimization, Statistics > and Actuarial Sciences, Computer Science. Also the Math Faculty > has all sorts of links with industry, math contests, technical math > journals, etc... We earn bizarre degrees like BMATH, MMATH and > there is even a DMATH (given only honoris causa) > Math is very common in this neck of the woods ... > -- > Je'ro^me M. Lang || jmlang@watmath.uwaterloo.ca > Dept of Applied Math || jmlang@violet.uwaterloo.ca > U of Waterloo || The university that tells me what I can't read > "Citoyen de la re'publique du Madawaska" = = 16 Floreal An CXCIX We're sorta resigned to getting the *occasional* article drifting across the Atlantic and dumping itself in our general group from Washington and (less commonly) Waterloo. To be honest, I hadn't noticed *how much* had been coming through, as I automatically kill anything not coming out of Warwick. But regardless of all the reasons for the insane distributions, surely the bulk of the traffic, the *maths* stuff, doesn't this belong OUT of a *general* group? Gandalf ~ fed up with the traffic -- This room is bare, this night is cold, we're far apart, and I'm growing old. But while we live, we'll meet again, so then my love we may whisper once more, "It's you I adore." -- Gandalf the Grey ~ cstxqcv@uk.ac.warwick.cs / csuat@uk.ac.warwick.cu