jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk (Fish) (01/16/91)
This is a proposal for the creation of a new group, to be called eunet.parallel. This is to be a moderated group. The purpose of this group is to disseminate information on parallel computing of relevance to Europe, rather than worldwide. The group comp.parallel is moderated in the USA, and so is not appropriate for local European discussion and announcements. We anticipate that information distributed on eunet.parallel will consist of: paper abstracts, announcements of European seminars and conferences, problems with hardware/software, details of work being done in parallel computing within Europe, job openings, etc. The group will be moderated by John Blair-Fish at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) who is a committee member of the BCS Parallel Processing Specialist Group (PPSG). We intend to post a call for votes on this issue in the newsgroups --- comp.parallel, eunet.news.group, comp.sys.transputer, eunet.misc, and comp.sys.super --- in 14 day's time. In the interim, please discuss in eunet.news.group only. John Blair-Fish (EPCC and BCS PPSG) and Malcolm Brown (EPCC) jabf@uk.ac.ed.castle malcolm@uk.ac.ed.castle [ The only reason that comp.parallel is moderated in the US is to service the entire world----a large number of personal mailings are made to Japan, Australia, and Europe. The other reason to moderate- control-has not been a problem. What you might consider is a cross feed between the two continents. I find it hard to believe that there is a secrecy need so that Europeans can talk about parallelism without the rest of the world finding out. Personal opinion only. =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (aka D. E. Stevenson), steve@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell ==================================================================== ]
bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper) (01/19/91)
In article <12634@hubcap.clemson.edu> jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk (Fish) writes:
)This is a proposal for the creation of a new group, to be called
)eunet.parallel. This is to be a moderated group. The purpose of this
)group is to disseminate information on parallel computing of relevance
)to Europe, rather than worldwide. The group comp.parallel is moderated
)in the USA, and so is not appropriate for local European discussion and
)announcements.
Is there no way to restrict the distribution of a posting to Europe then?
If it is, say, possible to set "Distribution: europe" on a posting, then I
think comp.parallel would serve also locally European discussions well.
Bjorn Lispercrispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) (01/22/91)
In article <12634@hubcap.clemson.edu> jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk (Fish) writes: >This is a proposal for the creation of a new group, to be called >eunet.parallel. [reasons: to support parallelism discussion local to Europe] >In the interim, please discuss in eunet.news.group only. Great, except that eunet.news.group is not available in North America. It seems to me that there is not a great deal of traffic in comp.parallel, and I would much rather see such traffic here. In a relatively esoteric field like parallel processing, I don't think that the concept of geographic locality is very useful, especially when exchanging concepts and information electronically. Crispin ----- Crispin Cowan, CS grad student, University of Western Ontario Work: MC28-C, x3342 crispin@csd.uwo.ca 890 Elias St., London, Ontario, N5W 3P2, ---> Support the GST: Canada's first fair tax <---