jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Blair-Fish) (01/19/91)
[Part of the rancor may be attributed to my comments. I was only trying to say that we're not so loaded down that the odd announcement is going to kill us. Since Edinburgh is important to our parallel community, the wish was for continued distribution. Be that as it may, one can certainly have local distributions: we do it here. What I would suggest is that you do the local thing, even the UK, etc, thing. I have a limited understanding of the posting software. Bjorn Lisper and others have suggested reasonable alternatives. Contact me with some plan and I'll contact the folks who have the software to find out what it takes. ] There have been a lot messages on the network commenting on the proposed eunet.parallel newsgroup. We believe that most of the complaints are the result of a misunderstanding, due to the wording of the original posting, which was unfortunately misleading. The main reason for proposing the new newsgroup is to provide a medium for disseminating information which is not appropriate for a world-wide audience. Since comp.parallel is moderated from the US, the moderator, we understand, cannot re-post articles with distributions such as, uk or ed. This means that we are unable to advertise lunchtime seminars, one-day meetings and the like through comp.parallel without wasting a vast amount of bandwidth by sending details to people thousands of miles away who are unlikely to have any interest in the posting. We feel that some events, such as one-day meetings in the UK, may be of significant interest only to a European audience, due to the cost of travel from the US. The proceedings typically produced from such meetings would, we anticipate, be advertised on a larger scale. There is no intention to restrict information of a wider significance, such as abstracts, jobs etc, as mistakenly suggested in the original posting. We fully recognise the value of a continuing exchange of information between research communities. There was certainly no conspiracy of secrecy intended in the original posting, and we hope readers can see the need for the type of eunet.parallel we envisage. Malcolm Brown and John Blair-Fish
pratt@cs.stanford.edu (Vaughan Pratt) (01/21/91)
We feel that some events, such as one-day meetings in the UK, may be of significant interest only to a European audience, due to the cost of travel from the US. One doesn't have to travel to a meeting to get something out of it. Simply knowing the titles of talks in programs of one-day events is of *great* interest here for comparing with local interests, to stay calibrated on where our respective interests are converging and/or diverging. All divergences are food for thought. If eunet.parallel becomes the forum for such advertisements, I hope someone on that list will repost those advertisements on comp.parallel. Vaughan Pratt
mas@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Smith) (01/22/91)
In article <12706@hubcap.clemson.edu> pratt@cs.stanford.edu (Vaughan Pratt) writes:
< We feel that some events, such as one-day meetings in the UK,
< may be of significant interest only to a European audience, due
< to the cost of travel from the US.
Just like all US workshops, one-day seminars and lunchtime talks get
posted to comp.parallel?
This could increase the traffic in the group even past that of alt.sex!
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Mark Smith.
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mas@castle.edinburgh.ac.ukvnrao@cs.utexas.edu (Nageshwara Rao Vempaty) (01/22/91)
In article <12706@hubcap.clemson.edu>, pratt@cs.stanford.edu (Vaughan Pratt) writes: > >> We feel that some events, such as one-day meetings in the UK, >> may be of significant interest only to a European audience, due >> to the cost of travel from the US. A person may just happen to be visiting the place and may want to drop by. Knowing what is going on definitely helps. > One doesn't have to travel to a meeting to get something out of it. > Simply knowing the titles of talks in programs of one-day events is of > *great* interest here for comparing with local interests, to stay > calibrated on where our respective interests are converging and/or > diverging. All divergences are food for thought. I agree. If some people insist on having a localized and private parallel processing clique, they are free to do so and I have no business to object. I believe news groups, conferences, workshops ad one day meetings are all public forums and there is no reason to restrict access. VNRao "Knowledge is Power" -- Patron Saint of all Scientists (Plagiarized :-)) )