highnam@SLCS.SLB.COM (01/17/91)
As you probably cannot tell from my email address I work
for a global company and happen to be located in the US.
I, being in the US, do not have access to eunet.news.group
and so am unable to participate in the discussion that you
have initiated, in the forum that you requested. (Perhaps
you would be so good as to repost this message there? Thanks.)
Do you believe that there is something uniquely European that
only deserves to be promoted on a local list? I looked through
the topics you mentioned in your proposal (see below) and didn't
find anything obviously regional.
1. ``paper abstracts''
I personally read papers from all over the world.
2. ``announcements of European seminars and conferences''
Every interesting seminar and conference seems to have
attendees from all over the world.
3. ``problems with hardware/software''
Last time I looked there were not too many vendors (or customers!)
of parallel hardware and software. This leads me to believe that
a request for free technical assistance (or commiseration)
is best done as widely as possible.
4. ``details of work being done in parallel computing within Europe''
Will such work never appear in the literature or be presented
at (non-European) conferences ?
5. ``job openings''
Do you believe that people who don't work in Europe now do not
ever want to work in Europe ?
Awaiting the opportunity to vote,
Peter Highnam
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Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science, Austin, Texas.karhu@ume.cs.umu.se (Erik Lindstr|m) (01/18/91)
In article <12638@hubcap.clemson.edu>, highnam@SLCS.SLB.COM writes: |> |> I, being in the US, do not have access to eunet.news.group |> and so am unable to participate in the discussion that you |> have initiated, I, though being in Europe, agree with Peter Highnam about the fact that a lot of potential discussion will be cut off if the distribution is restricted to Europe only. I think the topics mentioned in the proposal are of world wide interest. We could maybe vote for a European moderator of postings from here, but a Europe-only news group in this area is, in my oppinion, just a lot of waste. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Erik Lindstroem =+ This principle is so Dept. of Computing Science += perfectly general, that University of Umea =+ no particular application Sweden += of it is possible. karhu@cs.umu.se =+ -- G. Polya =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+