ctp@pop.cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole) (04/09/88)
As of the June issue of the DECUS Combined SIG Newsletters, I
have taken over the task of editing the VAX SIG Pageswapper.
All of you folks out there that have been contributing to the
Pageswapper in the past and any new authors are encouraged to submit
articles for publication.
Contributions and suggestions for the Pageswapper are
constantly needed. Articles, letters, technical tips, or anything of
interest to our SIG are greatly appreciated. I prefer submissions be
made electronically, but magnetic tape and hard copy will be accepted.
The deadline for the June issue of the Pageswapper is 26 April
1988. Preference will be given to electronic submission. Submission
by mail (both magnetic tape and hard copy) may cause delays in
publication.
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Clyde T. Poole - Technical Coordinator, Facilities and Equipment (in real life)
DECUS U. S. Chapter, VAX SIG, Newsletter Editor (in my spare time)
Univ. of Texas at Austin ARPA/CSnet: ctp@cs.utexas.edu
Dept. of Computer Sciences UUCP: {uunet,harvard,ihnp4}!ut-sally!ctp
Taylor Hall 2.124 BITNET: ctp@UTADNX SPAN: UTADNX::CTP
Austin, TX 78712-1188 VOICE: (512) 471-9551
"Life is a bitch ... and then you die"hydrovax@titan.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) (04/10/88)
In article <11155@ut-sally.UUCP> ctp@pop.cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole) writes: > > As of the June issue of the DECUS Combined SIG Newsletters, I >have taken over the task of editing the VAX SIG Pageswapper. > Contributions and suggestions for the Pageswapper are >constantly needed. Articles, letters, technical tips, or anything of >interest to our SIG are greatly appreciated. I prefer submissions be >made electronically, but magnetic tape and hard copy will be accepted. > I'd like to raise a point that may not have been raised before. Why can't the Pageswapper be posted here (OR to comp.os.vms (aka INFO-VAX)) each month that it is published? The volume of this news group seems low enough that one HUGE article a month wouldn't cause problems. Any body know why this isn't already being done? They already have the text in a form that can be placed on DECUS tapes, why not do us the service of posting it here as well? >Clyde T. Poole - Technical Coordinator, Facilities and Equipment (in real life) -- bitnet: losh@nmt.csnet M. Warner Losh warner@hydrovax.nmt.csnet ! Don't know if this works, let me know. csnet: warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu uucp: ...{cmcl2, ihnp4}!lanl!unmvax!nmtsun!warner%hydrovax
ctp@ut-sally.UUCP (Clyde T. Poole) (04/13/88)
In article <141@titan.nmt.edu> hydrovax@titan.UUCP (M. Warner Losh) writes: > >I'd like to raise a point that may not have been raised before. Why can't >the Pageswapper be posted here (OR to comp.os.vms (aka INFO-VAX)) each month >that it is published? The volume of this news group seems low enough that >one HUGE article a month wouldn't cause problems. > >Any body know why this isn't already being done? They already have the >text in a form that can be placed on DECUS tapes, why not do us the >service of posting it here as well? > Hmmm.... You bring up two problems that I am currently struggling with. 1) Distribution of the Pageswapper electronicly 2) Distribution of the Pageswapper on the VAX SIG Symposia tapes There are problems with both of these. The DECUS Combined SIG Newsletters is a subscription based publication that barely breaks even. Subscriptions have been down in the last year and the Communications Committee has been looking at ways to improve the subscription rate. If more people don't subscribe and if costs (like mailing) continue to go up, it is possible that the newsletter will cease to exist. If I posted the newsletter to the net, there are some people that would stop subscribing. That in itself is not too bad since the purpose of the newsletter is to inform the reader and we would still be doing that. But if as a result of the loss of subscriptions, the newsletter went out of business as a publication, then there are a set of readers that would no longer have a way of obtaining the information the newsltter contains. Not everyone is on one of the nets that INFO-VAX feeds for example. This is a sticky problem and I am open to suggestions. As a member of the DECUS U.S. Communications Committee, Long Range Planning Committee the suggestions you give me will get to the right place almost immediately. A completely seperate problem is the format that the newsletter will be taking from now on. Unlike the previous editor, I will be "typesetting" the Pageswapper using TeX (and soon LaTeX). The embedded markup language does not lend itself to readability. This also brings into question whether it will be on the SIG Symposia tapes in the future. ----- Clyde T. Poole, Technical Coordinator, Facilities and Equipment (in real life) DECUS U. S. Chapter, VAX SIG, Newsletter Editor (in my spare time) ARPA/CSnet: ctp@sally.utexas.edu VOICE: (512) 471-9551 UUCP: {harvard,ihnp4,uunet}!ut-sally!ctp CIS: 75226,3135 Overland: UT at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences Taylor Hall 2.124, Austin, TX 78712-1188 "Life is a bitch ... and then you die"
JARRELLRA@vtmath.math.vt.EDU.MATH.VT.EDU (Ronald A. Jarrell) (05/06/88)
M. Warner Losh asks why the DECUS Pageswapper can't be posted to the Info-VAX list. The biggest reason is that it is a subscription newsletter - if they start posting it here, then people will stop subscribing, which means the newsletter project goes bankrupt (which has been a looming possibility for a couple of symposia now, SUBSCRIBE!) which means they stop publishing ALL the newsletters. Ron Jarrell Va Tech CC