eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (03/21/91)
It has come to my attention that some sites who asked by
THE Parallel/Distributed Processing Bibliography have placed
their copies in areas which are anonymous FTP'able to outside
sites. Please do NOT do this. I must note all institutions
having copies of the bibliography to Prentice-Hall (holders
of the copyright on Satyanarayanan's bibliography) and this
makes things difficult. Please also keep that little file named
"copyright" as P-H asks I have that (as well as ACM and IEEE notices).
Several readers, myself included, have been trying to keep up with
the literature, references etc. intergrating the information into
our existing files for the entire community to use. However of late
I've wasted a bit of time trying to keep up.
Problems:
1) we use four or five different formats. I made a conscious decision
when I started to use Unix refer. It didn't take as much storage
as bibtex, or Scribe(tm), etc. It was at least readable to those
having non-Unix systems like Fujitsus running some flavor of VM.
It has filters to convert to bibtex, etc.
For those who don't know, you can also use them with document prep systems.
Other people are keeping speciality parallel biblios using bibtex,
still others use Scribe, Script, and various library literature search
formats (note some of these have copyright requirements like DIALOG(tm)).
Saves some of us time when these are used (not like comp.parallel is
edited).
2) If you are going to suggest refs, please check accuracy.
As others have noted a few refs are wrong. Some of us check
(search) these things.
3) It would help my integration if I didn't have to check entries I
already have. (Believe me, I know when you are using my biblio, even
when you truncate the keyword list.)
I don't mean if you have personal biblios, but if you make a search of
my biblio and then post references, you can save me some time if you say
where you got them. And I will happily integrate your annotations
if you mail them to me. And the whole world can see your insight.
I add the annotations anonymously unless a signature (or initials)
is specifically appended. This especially helps when you find problems
with books, etc. Negative reviews save money.
--e. nobuo utsunomiya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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