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From: afzal@divsun.unige.ch (Afzal Ballim)
Subject: Re: ** AI MAILING LIST CREATED ** (try WWW threaded reader gateway)
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 08:46:20 GMT
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In article <NAU.95Feb19223329@frabjous.cs.umd.edu>, nau@cs.umd.edu (Dana Nau) writes:
|> In article <push-1802951020590001@mind.mit.edu> push@mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh) writes:
|> 
|>    For those of you who haven't been keeping up with this discussion, some of
|>    us on comp.ai are disappointed that there is very little discussion of AI
|>    research on this newsgroup.  Hence the mailing list idea.  Hopefully it
|>    won't suffer the same fate as comp.ai -- we'll have to wait and see.  But
|>    I suspect it is safe, since (I hope) only die-hard AIers will be willing
|>    to put up with the mail and make the effort to add themselves to the list
|>    in the first place.
|> 
|> Although I share your frustration about the poor signal-to-noise ratio
|> on comp.ai, it's not clear to me that a mailing list is the way to
|> attract serious AI researchers.  Personally, I'm not willing to
|> subscribe to mailing lists on any topic, as my load of email each day
|> is already much too high!

I know the problem. For those with a WWW browser, however, I can offer a
different solution. I have a Usenet-like conferencing which offers threaded
subjects and can even gateway mailing lists (I currently have a number of
such gateways). I'll set up a gateway to Pushpinder's mailing list ASAP. In
the meantime, if anyone wants to get a feel for the system, connect to:

http://issco-www.unige.ch/WebForum/

and follow the local links. When prompted for a username, give "guest"
as your username, with "guest" as your password.

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