Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04670; 15 Mar 95 14:17:53 EST Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 13:50:41 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+prolog-jobs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Admin: Replace lists with newsgroups? Sender: ai@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU A subscriber has suggested that the AI-related jobs mailing lists be replaced or augmented with a newsgroup or newsgroups. Since I do not have the facilities for a bidirectional email/news gateway, nor do I have the time to write one, this would probably mean replacement. Before there is any discussion of this proposal (and such discussion will NOT take place on this list), I would like to hear the answers to two questions. Please email your responses to me directly at mkant@cs.cmu.edu. 1. Would a change from a mailing list to a newsgroup adversely affect any of the list subscribers? Are there any subscribers who do not have access to netnews, or who strongly prefer to receive the job announcements in email form? Are there any other good reasons to remain as a mailing list? 2. Are any of you willing to take responsibility for the RFD and CFV process? I do not have the time to do this myself, but would be available to review the RFD and CFV posts before they went out. My interpretation of the proposal is that it would replace the mailing lists with three (unmoderated) newsgroups: comp.ai.jobs comp.lang.lisp.jobs comp.lang.prolog.jobs The charters for these newsgroups would be for job postings, graduate fellowship announcements, and postdoctoral position announcements. Some issues to be discussed in the RFD include: posting of resumes, and minimal moderation (to remove irrelevant posts and ensure that subject lines are properly formatted). Also, if this proposal does go forward, I'd like to see a proposal for creating the following (unrelated) newsgroups that I think would be equally useful: comp.ai.announce.books Announcements of new AI books & publications comp.ai.announce.conferences Announcements of AI conferences The latter is necessary because news.announce.conferences is essentially defunct, and even when it wasn't, the newsgroup needed splitting anyway. Mark Kantrowitz mkant@cs.cmu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message | Submissions ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu was sent via | Subscribe/Unsubscribe ai+query@cs.cmu.edu the AI-POSTDOC | Available mailing lists include mailing list. | AI-JOBS, LISP-JOBS, PROLOG-JOBS, AI-POSTDOC, AI-PREDOC