leff@smu.UUCP (Leff) (09/21/85)
I am volunteering to organize an electronic mechanism for the distribution
of technical report lists from Universities and R&D labs. Some (and
hopefully all) of the people producing technical reports would send a copy
of the list to me. I would then send these to a moderated group on USENET
as well as a mailing list for those sites on the INTERNET who do not get
news (ARPANET, CSNET, etc.). The CSNET side will be starting up
in a few days and I already have the first technical report list
to go out.
For those who aren't familiar with technical reports, most universities
and big company R&D labs publish reports about their research.
Some are abstruse (like new results in automata theory). Others are
manuals for their public domain software or tutorials. For example NASA/Ames
published a tutorial on SETUID programs under UNIX. These lists
are currently sent out by mail to other schools and R&D labs. However,
not everybody at the targetted institution sees them and many sites
who are on USENET are not on the mailing lists.
Some of these will later get turned into journal articles while other
items will never be more formally published. Thus looking at these
lists would give you information on new research results before they would
appear in journals or would let you know of material you would not
otherwise be aware of.
Would those people interested in such a group please send me affirmative
mail so we can start the USENET side. (I am in contact with the CSNET
people to start that side.) When things are set up, I will send out
a mass mailing to the Universities and R&D labs on the net encouraging
them to mail me machine readable versions of their tech report lists
for me to repost. If you wish to start mailing me stuff to post now
or put me on an electronic mailing list, you may do so.
This system will save the cost of postage, printing costs and handling time
which is currently needed by each school producing technical reports
to send their list to other schools. (Most people currently receiving such
report lists are reachable either through Arpanet, CSNET or USENET.)
Thank you for your interest and cooperation.
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