cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) (12/23/90)
Thanks to the good work of Mark DeLoura at the University of Washington Computing Services, postings from the first five months of this newsgroup's existence are now available in the milton archives. These are in addition to the postings from September and October 1990, already archived. (October, regrettably, is partially munged. We are looking for another set of postings from that month to replace it. Please bear with the difficulties.) Months now available are February-July 1990, and September-October 1990. We will be posting November 1990 shortly and December when it's completed. To access these archives, ftp to milton.u.washington.edu Log in as ftp and, for a password, give your email address. Then cd to the directory /public/virtual-worlds/postings , where you'll see the posting files. To withdraw a file, do a GET <name> . To decode these files, use the instructions in README_to_decode, which you should also get. Thanks to Mark, we now have the beginnings of a decent library and I am appointing him sci.v-w Librarian. If you have more ideas or comments about the library (Dean Johnson of Cray has some good work in progress), send them to me and cc: a copy to Mark (madsax@milton. u.washington.edu). We'll both appreciate it, and so will the other participants. Bob Jacobson Moderator