jbatson@BBN.COM (Jay Batson) (07/06/90)
On June 28, 1990, in response to numerous requests, BBN Advanced Computers created new mailing list for discussion on topics concerning machines that we make. Effective immediately, you may send mail to bf-net@bbn.com and it will be forwarded to a wide audience of people interested in using the TC2000 and GP1000 computers. As of today, the list consists of more than 125 people at numerous commercial and scientific sites around the world. (Yes, there are foreign sites with our machines.) The list is unmoderated. BBN ACI will serve only as mailing list administrator, and as participants in the list traffic. We will not be exercising any editorial censorship of the postings, although you will see postings by BBN ACI people, both in response to other postings as well as original mail (as could only be expected). The list currently contains as many names as I could gather in a couple of hours of looking through obvious places, like our customer support database, old mail, etc. However, I know that I have omitted a large number of possibly interested people. There are many people who will read this who are the only person at their site actively reading news. Could everyone interested in the new list make some kind of effort to discover the potentially interested people at your site and pass this news posting onto them? Don't just forward this to some wide-distribution list at your site without asking around first - if everyone at your site did that, well, nobody would want to sort through _that_ resulting avalanche of mail.... If you either wish to be on the list and are not, or if I have put you on the list and you don't wish to be, please send mail to: bf-net-request@bbn.com and I will make the changes. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not send requests for additions/deletions to the list itself - other people on the list usually don't like to have to sort through tons of these administrative requests to get to the "real" postings. The list is ready now. We hope this is a useful vehicle for you to share information and obtain feedback from other users. Jay Batson BBN ACI Software Product Support UUCP: ...!harvard!bbn.com!jbatson 617-873-4119 DOMAIN: jbatson@bbn.com "Parallel processing can be fun!"
rick@goforit.ads.com (Rick Chestek) (07/11/90)
Identified below is a mailing list that I'd like to subscribe to. If appropriate, could you set it up as a regular newsgroup here? If you decide not to, please let me know so that I can subscribe personally. In article <9579@hubcap.clemson.edu> you write: >On June 28, 1990, in response to numerous requests, BBN Advanced >Computers created new mailing list for discussion on topics concerning >machines that we make. Effective immediately, you may send mail to > > bf-net@bbn.com > >and it will be forwarded to a wide audience of people interested in >using the TC2000 and GP1000 computers. As of today, the list consists >of more than 125 people at numerous commercial and scientific sites >around the world. (Yes, there are foreign sites with our machines.) > >The list is unmoderated. BBN ACI will serve only as mailing list >administrator, and as participants in the list traffic. We will not be >exercising any editorial censorship of the postings, although you will >see postings by BBN ACI people, both in response to other postings as >well as original mail (as could only be expected). > >The list currently contains as many names as I could gather in a couple >of hours of looking through obvious places, like our customer support >database, old mail, etc. However, I know that I have omitted a large >number of possibly interested people. There are many people who will >read this who are the only person at their site actively reading news. >Could everyone interested in the new list make some kind of effort to >discover the potentially interested people at your site and pass this >news posting onto them? Don't just forward this to some >wide-distribution list at your site without asking around first - if >everyone at your site did that, well, nobody would want to sort through >_that_ resulting avalanche of mail.... > >If you either wish to be on the list and are not, or if I have put you >on the list and you don't wish to be, please send mail to: > bf-net-request@bbn.com >and I will make the changes. > PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE >do not send requests for additions/deletions to the list itself - other >people on the list usually don't like to have to sort through tons of >these administrative requests to get to the "real" postings. > >The list is ready now. We hope this is a useful vehicle for you to >share information and obtain feedback from other users. > >Jay Batson >BBN ACI Software Product Support >UUCP: ...!harvard!bbn.com!jbatson 617-873-4119 >DOMAIN: jbatson@bbn.com "Parallel processing can be fun!"