shellreq@uklirb.UUCP (Bernd Bachmann) (04/03/89)
INITIAL POSTING: Welcome to comp.ai.shells
Here are the results of the formal voting for this moderated newsgroup:
pro votes: 113
con votes: 1
Thanks to all who sent us their vote. We hope that most of the 113
supporters and many more people will contribute to the newsgroup actively.
Time seems ripe for a broad, public examination of expert-system shells,
and all AI centers developing expert systems should profit from an open
on-line exchange of user experiences, shell-developer viewpoints,
cost-benefit ratios, benchmarking results, integration problems, etc. We
feel that within AI a separation of such 'technical' shell issues from
'philosophical' base issues, as mainly discussed in groups like
comp.ai.digest, would be advantageous.
You are welcome to submit announcements, descriptions, critiques, etc.
This is a minimal set of rules helping to make this group - and the field
of AI shells - a success:
- Try to be as constructive, polite and friendly as if taking part in
a personal conversation, and as concise, precise and informative as if
submitting a paper to a workshop. See also the USENET newsgroup
news.announce.newusers subject: A Primer on How to Work With the
Usenet Community (Updated: 6 March 1989) and subject: Hints on writing
style for Usenet (Updated: 6 March 1989).
- Don't submit commercial advertisments but describe your shell in
scientific terms so that they will stand up to critical follow-up
postings of well-informed colleagues. Academic institutions are
invited to send descriptions of their 'educational' shells (including
information on how to obtain and run their public-domain or
nominal-fee software).
- We regard the topic of this newsgroup, 'shells', in a general sense:
Besides contributions on the usual commercial XPS shells we are also
happy to receive contributions about XPS programming environments and
AI tool boxes built on top of high-level languages like LISP/CLOS and
PROLOG (but not about LISP and PROLOG themselves, which are discussed
in other USENET newsgroups). Moreover, we welcome contributions on
rule-based AI languages like OPS5 and on terminological reasoning
systems like KL-ONE.
moderators: Bernd Bachmann, Harold Boley, Norbert Kratz,
Robert Rehbold, Michael M. Richter, Peter Spieker,
Thomas Wetter
requests, comments: shellreq@uklirb.uucp
or from USA ...!uunet!unido!uklirb!shellreq
submissions: shell@uklirb.uucp
or from USA ...!uunet!unido!uklirb!shell
[Note that the newsgroup's name uses the plural form 'shells' while
the moderator accounts both use the singular form 'shell'.]
Users of 2.11 news or later may also post their submissions to
comp.ai.shells, which should then be mailed to shell@uklirb.uucp
automatically.