Awatmath.2114 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Tue Mar 23 14:56:20 1982 Arpanet mailing list directory Here follows what should be a complete list of all the mailing lists to be found on the ARPANET. Some of these are forwarded to the USENET as fa. groups, and others are shared as net. groups via SRI-UNIX. I urge that USENET members not mail the moderators of these digests to get themselves put on these lists - rather they should put an inquiry out on the USENET about getting them forwarded to the rest of the net through one of the linkup sites that is willing. There are two ways of having a group shared. To do this, there must be a site on both the arpanet and the USENET. The group can be shared either by a one way gateway or a two way one. An alias must be set up on a gateway machine and that alias must be put on the arpanet mailing list. This alias should feed to inews. Messages the other way can be done by mail as the arpanauts do it, or an entry can be made in the sys file of the gateway machine to pipe news items through a shell script into mail to the digest, as long as it can be insured that such items do not loop back. Date: 16 Feb 1982 2135-PST From: Zellich at OFFICE-3 (Rich Zellich) - - To: MAILING-LIST COORDINATORS: Cc: Zellich Thanks to all of you who responded to my request for verification of your mailing-list entries; it was much appreciated, and will be very helpful to others using the file. As a reminder, the publicly-accessible file containing all the mailing- lists, digests, etc. that I know about is kept on OFFICE-3 in file INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT. OFFICE-3 supports the net "standard" ANONYMOUS login with password GUEST, ARPA, or whatever. To all those whose mail systems choked on the presence of a Sender field instead of a From field in my message, my apologies. If I had known so many systems couldn't handle that, I would have taken the simple step of manually adding a From field before transmitting each message. For the near future, my message-sending system is being changed to use a different FTP-interface mechanism - one which does not insist on inserting a Sender field in every message; originally I had a choice of including both fields even when they would be identical, or ignoring the RFC733 discouragement on using Sender instead of From when only one field was present, and decided in favor of brevity over good form. Cheers, Rich Zellich ------- *END MSG Last Update: 9 Mar 82 -------------------- PLEASE SEND CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, UPDATES, ETC. TO ZELLICH@OFFICE-3. -------------------- ARMS-D at MIT-MC Arms discussion group. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, etc., should be sent to ARMS-D-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Coordinator: ?? [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] ARPANET-BBOARDS at MIT-AI Redistribution address for all known BBoards on the ARPANET. Due to past problems with messages deemed in bad taste by "the authorities", messages sent to this address are manually screened (generally, every couple of days) before being remailed to the BBoards. Problems, questions, etc. can be addressed to ARPANET-BBOARDS-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: Glenn S. Burke Astronomy Events As mailing list for astronomical events and meeting announcements (mostly in the Boston area). Items to be sent to the list are sent to koolish@BBN-UNIX for forwarding. An attempt is being made to keep it from becoming full of trivial messages, but new readers and valid input are welcome. Coordinator: Dick Koolish CHESS at SRI-UNIX This newsgroup is shared with the UUCP-network. Contributions can be submitted by sending to CHESS@SRI-UNIX (and also the aliases CHESS@MIT-MC and CHESS@MIT-AI). All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to CHESS-REQUEST at SRI-UNIX (sending to CHESS-REQUEST on MC and AI forwards it correctly). Coordinator: mclure at SRI-UNIX [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] CLUSTER at BRL Discussion of DARCOM Cluster Computers, and related issues. Coordinator: Mike Muuss CUBE-LOVERS at MIT-MC The Rubik's Cube mailing-list. Much of the information in the Scientific American article was presented in Cube-Lovers first; also many mathematical discussions have taken place as well as the development of a cube notation and various transformations used to solve it. Recently the discussion has moved towards puzzling in general. Messages are archived in the files MIT-MC:ALAN;CUBE MAIL(0 1 2 ...) with the most recent messages in MIT-MC:ALAN;CUBE MAIL All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to CUBE-LOVERS-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Coordinator: Alan Bawden [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] EDITOR-PEOPLE at SU-SCORE (ARPANET) ucbvax!editor-people (USENET) Discussion of topics related to computerized text editing, display editors, and human factors in man/machine interaction. The theoretical discussion is catholic, but practical discussion focuses particularly on Tops-20 and Unix. The discussion also appears on the Unix USENET distributed bulletin board. An archive is on [SU-SCORE]PS:EDITORMAIL.TXT. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to EDITOR-PEOPLE-REQUEST at SU-SCORE. Coordinator: J.Q. Johnson [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] ENERGY at MIT-MC Discussions on energy-related topics. Archives are kept in two sets of files on MIT-MC - MC:OAF;ENERGY ARC<001,002,003> contains the old material from the list, while newer material goes into the file MC:OAF;ENERGY RECENT. Coordinator: Oded Anoaf Feingold H19-PEOPLE at MIT-MC Discussion of the construction, use, and modification of H19 terminals as well as H88/H89 computers. The archives of old messages are kept on MIT-MC, in the files: CRD;H19 MAIL CRD;H19 MAIL1 CRD;H19 MAIL2 etc. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to H19-PEOPLE-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Coordinator: Michael A. Patton [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] HEADER-PEOPLE at MIT-MC Interest specifically in the format of message headers and related issues such as inter-network mail formats/standards, etc. Header-People messages are filed on MIT-MC:KSC;HEADER MINS [and MINS01, MINS02, etc.]. The ones more than 3 years old have been "reaped" but could be retrieved if anyone wants to see them. Coordinator: David A. Moon HOME-SAT at MIT-AI Interest in home earth satellite receivers, etc., as well as all aspects of video technology. All past transactions of HOME-SAT mail may be found by FTPing or typing the file on MIT-AI called: GEOFF;HOMSAT RECORD Coordinators: Geoff at SRI-CSL and Jonathan Alan Solomon HUMAN-NETS at UTEXAS-20 (or at MIT-AI) Mailing list originally consisting of the combined memberships of INFO-PCNET, HOME-SAT, and TELETEXT mailing lists. Human-Nets has discussed many topics, all of them related in some way to the theme of a world-wide computer and telecommunications network usually called WorldNet. The topics have ranged very widely, from something like tutorials, to state of the art discussions, to rampant speculation about technology and its impact. The list is extremely large, making it necessary to batch messages sent to the list and distributing them once each day during off peak periods to avoid overloading the system. [For further information, see the 124-line "Welcome to Human-Nets" message in OFFICE-3 public file HUMAN-NETS-WELCOME.TXT] Two sets of archives are maintained for the HUMAN-NETS mailing list. One is a short term archive containing all material distributed in the last 7 days, stored in temporal order. The other is a permanent archive containing all the material distributed to the list. Due to size, this archive is broken down into several different files,stored in reverse temporal order. The file names and contents of the files are: On MIT-AI: COMMON;HUMAN_ NETS [last 7 days] DUFFEY;_DATA_ HUMNET [current - V4 # 41] On USC-ECLB: BUG:HUMNET.012 [V4 # 40 - V4 # 1] BUG:HUMNET.011 [V3 #114 - V3 # 81] BUG:HUMNET.010 [V3 # 80 - V3 # 41] BUG:HUMNET.009 [V3 # 40 - V3 # 1] BUG:HUMNET.008 [V2 #178 - V2 #161] BUG:HUMNET.007 [V2 #160 - V2 #121] BUG:HUMNET.006 [V2 #120 - V2 # 81] BUG:HUMNET.005 [V2 # 80 - V2 # 41] BUG:HUMNET.004 [V2 # 40 - V2 # 1] BUG:HUMNET.003 [V1 #129 - V1 #101] BUG:HUMNET.002 [V1 #100 - V1 # 51] BUG:HUMNET.001 [V1 # 50 - V1 # 1] The material at MIT-AI can be accessed via FTP without logging in; the material at USC-ECLB can be accessed via FTP by logging in as ANONYMOUS, password ARPA. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to HUMAN-NETS-REQUEST at UTEXAS-20 (or at MIT-AI). Moderator: Mike Peeler [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-APPLE at MIT-AI APPLE user's mailing list. All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to INFO-APPLE-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: ?? [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-ATARI at MIT-AI Atari user's mailing list. All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to INFO-ATARI-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: ?? [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-AUDIO at MIT-AI Audio design/construction discussion group. All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to INFO-AUDIO-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: LLOYD at MIT-AI [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-BITGRAPH at MIT-MC Information/discussion list for the BB&N BitGraph terminal. Archive file is at: MIT-MC:DCP;INFO BITGRF Coordinator: ?? INFO-CPM at MIT-MC Information and discussion on the CP/M microcomputer operating system. The most recent mail is stored in reverse chronological order in MC:CPM;CPM ARCHIV. Older mail is kept in [DARCOM-KA]CPM.ARCHIV with the version number being the date of the archive. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to INFO-CPM-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Coordinator: Frank J. Wancho [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-EMPIRE at MIT-AI Information and discussion on the EMPIRE game. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to INFO-EMPIRE-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: ROBG at MIT-AI [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-LAW at USC-ECLB (or at MIT-AI) Interest in computers and law. Mail gets distributed after first being manually screened. Process may involve returning to author for clarification and/or other sanitization. Archived messages are kept at: newest messages: [ECLB]PS:LAW.RECORD older messages: [ECLB]PS:LAW.ARCHIVE oldest messages: [ECLB]PS:LAW.OLDARCHIVE The first two are TWENEX mail files, and the last is an ITS mail file. Statements of editorial policy, file pointers, etc., are in: [ECLB]PS:INFO-LAW.MSS All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to INFO-LAW-REQUEST at USC-ECLB (or at MIT-AI). NB: The MIT-AI addresses will still work, but it is preferred that you use the USC-ECLB addresses. Coordinator: Karl A. Nyberg [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-PCNET at MIT-MC PCNET is a volunteer effort to create a computer network for personal use, that is for whatever use a person wants to use it for without the kinds of restrictions that most existing networks have (ARPANET forbids commercial use, EDUNET forbids any use except education, TYMNET/TELENET don't support host-to-host communication nor user-to-user communication), and without the shortsided communication barriers that company-funded networks have (MicroNET keeps their protocols secret so nobody can interface to them, UUCP-net hasn't documented their protocols legibly, DIALNET is so complicted only a large computer system can implement it). PCNET is trying to create a network where all computers, large or small, part of a formal network organization or just isolated privately owned-and-operated computers, can communicate with each other effectively. PCNET has defined communication protocols that verify all data is correct (retransmitting data that is lost or garbaged) and which provides multiple logical data streams so that processes can send control and data information on different streams and so that several programs can share a single hardware communication link. PCNET has defined a worldwide addressing standard that permits automatic forwarding of messages and files without having to know the topology of the network a priori. PCNET is presently finishing software on several machines (8080, 6502, PDP-10) using several languages (Assembly language, LISP, C), and perfecting its documentation, but as always is having difficulty getting enough volunteer labor to complete these tasks. INFO-PCNET is a general mailing list to keep random interested people advised of the major developments accomplished and to repeatedly solicit volunteer labor from interested people. Documentation is available on MIT-MC in the file PCNET;INTRO > (this is the latest introductory documentation, written by John Gilmore and updated somewhat by Robert Maas). David Harris is the organizational leader and is in charge of releasing documents to the public: David C. Harris Palo Alto ABBS: (415) 493-7691 (300 baud - type a ) Mailing-list maintainer: Robert Elton Maas INFO-PRINTERS at MIT-AI Information on printers. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, etc., should be sent to INFO-PRINTERS-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: Eric L. Flanzbaum [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-TERMS at MIT-MC Information on terminals. Message log/archives are kept at: MIT-MC:CPR;TERMS MAIL Current section of archives MIT-MC:CPR;TERMS 1 The latest archives created 2 The next archive file etc... The old 1 and 2, and so forth, will eventually get put on tape as disk space becomes scarce. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, etc., should be sent to INFO-TERMS-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Coordinator: Jonathan Alan Solomon [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] INFO-VAX at SANDIA INFO-VAX is a discussion of VAX-11/780's and 750's. Typically the material is question-and-answer, where someone wants information on some program or bug/feature. Both UNIX and VAX/VMS operating systems are discussed. Archived messages are kept at SANDIA in the file: INFO-VAX.ARCHIVE Coordinator: Jonathan Alan Solomon LOCAL-NETS at MIT-MC Sharing experience with local networking projects between sites currently involved in or soon to attempt such projects; basically a very praxis-oriented discussion about networking -20's, VAXen, and -11's. Subjects include DECnet, Ethernet, Chaosnet as well as simple tty line links; both hardware and software aspects. NOTE: A/O 10 Feb 82, this list is fairly dead, though still open for business. Messages are archived in MIT-MC:CPR;LCLNET MAIL Coordinator: Chris Ryland [SRI-KL]MAILING-LIST.TXT.* Interest in microcomputers, micro languages, operating systems, etc. The focus of the mailing list is really on microprocessor development tools such as cross-assemblers and PROM downloaders, but includes the idea of libraries of useful microprocessor software. Community files are maintained in MICRO at SRI-KL. Coordinator: Dave Fylstra MsgGroup at MIT-ML Interest in electronic mail, message formats, message systems, and the sociological implications of the above. Archives are kept at USC-ECL in files MSGGROUP.*, where * stands for a range of messages, in blocks of 100 (from 0001 thru 1100) or 50 (from 1101 on up) (MSGGROUP.0001-0100, MSGGROUP.0101-0200, MSGGROUP.1101-1150, etc.). As of 9 Feb 82, the last file was *.1651-1700. Coordinator: EStefferud at USC-ECL/MsgGroup at USC-ECL POLI-SCI at MIT-AI POLI-SCI is a spinoff from the HUMAN-NETS discussion list. Shortly after the November (1980) election, HUMAN-NETS began to discuss the impact that electronic communications had on the election. As this discussion continued, it lost its narrow focus on electronic communications and began to consider the election in general, how elections are won and lost, and the nature of the electoral college. The growth of these discussions, and their spawning of related discussions, indicated that a separate discussion list was merited and POLI-SCI was installed. Since then POLI-SCI has begun to consider other topics including the history of the Carter and Nixon presidencies, the Iranian hostage crisis, etc. (with a little less dignity, the list might be characterized as a permanent distributed political bull session). Archived digest messages are stored at: MIT-AI:DUFFEY;_DATA_ POLISC All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to POLI-SCI-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Moderator: JoSH Hall [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] RAILROAD at MIT-MC Information on prototype railroading. Coordinator: Was Chuck Weinstock, who no longer has access to MIT-MC. There is no current coordinator/mailing-list maintainer. SF-LOVERS at MIT-AI Science Fiction lovers. The digest has a very large number of readers, and trivial messages are strongly discouraged due to the heavy load SF-LOVERS puts on the hosts CPU and disk space. Messages to SF-LOVERS@MIT-AI are batched and broadcast once a day. Archived digest messages are kept at: MIT-AI:DUFFEY;_DATA_ SF MIT-AI:DUFFEY;_DATA_ SFn MIT-AI:DUFFEY;_DATA_ SF2 MIT-AI:DUFFEY;_DATA_ SF1 ...in order from most recent in "SF" to oldest in "SF1" All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to SF-LOVERS-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Moderator: Jim McGrath [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] SKY-FANS at MIT-DMS Amateur observational astronomy mailing list. Coordinator: S. W. Galley SPACE at MIT-MC Discussions (daily digest) on space-related topics. Archives are kept on [S1-A]SPACE.LOG[SPA,OTA], which, unfortunately, does not allow FTP without login. Requests for back issues should be directed to SPACE-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Requests to be added to the mailing-list, problems, etc., also go to SPACE-REQUEST at MIT-MC. Aliases for the above net-addresses are: SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS AT MIT-MC SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS-REQUEST AT MIT-MC Coordinator: Owen T. (Ted) Anderson [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] TCP-IP at MIT-AI [or at BRL] (ARPANET) !menlo70!hao!brl-bmd!tcp-ip (UUCP/USENET) A digest which discusses TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol), the "DoD Standard Networking Protocols for the Eighties". Submissions generally center around UNIX implementations, but ANY networking protocol or implementation discussions too specific for HUMAN-NETS is fair game here; the digest includes discussions of mail protocols and addressing in the InterNet environment, and a little about non-TCP/IP based networking. Archives are kept at the Rutgers host in: MAIL.TXT Requests to be added to the mailing-list, problems, etc., not to be published in the digest go to TCP-IP-REQUEST at MIT-AI [or at BRL] (ARPANET) or !menlo70!hao!brl-bmd!tcp-ip-request (UUCP/USENET). Coordinator: Mike Muuss [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] TELECOM at USC-ECLB A broad spectrum moderated-digest-format discussion on telecommunictions technology: the telephone system, modems, and other more technical aspects of telecommunications systems. This digest was spun off from HUMAN-NETS. Mail can be sent to the above address, or to TELECOM at MIT-AI or TELECOM at RUTGERS. Archived digest messages are kept at USC-ECLB in the files: TELECOM.RECENT VOLUME-1.TXT All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, reports of transmission failure, etc., should be sent to TELECOM-REQUEST at USC-ECLB. Moderator: Jonathan Alan Solomon [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] TELEPHONE-NETWORK-PEOPLE at MIT-MC Interest in protocols for voice-telephone based networks (like PCNET, DEAFNET, etc.) Coordinator: Farber at UDEL-EE TELETEXT at MIT-AI Interest in Teletext/Viewdata/Closed Captioning, and similar services. A record of all messages passed thru TELETEXT at MIT-AI will be kept in MIT-AI:GEOFF;TELTXT RECORD. Coordinator: Lauren Weinstein TOPS-20 at SU-SCORE A limited membership mailing list (TOPS-20 programming staff and managers only) for serious discussions on TOPS-20 system issues, such as bug reports (including system security bugs, hence the limited membership), hints and folklore, software sharing, system management issues, and anything else the members of the group want to talk about. Coordinator: Mark Crispin UNIX-CPM at UDEL Discussion on a comparison of UNIX vs. CP/M. Archives may be found in the DARCOM-KA file: UNIX-CPM.MSG (a Tenex message file) NOTE: A/O 10 Feb 82, this list has gone dormant and may soon be discontinued (although the archives are still available). Coordinator: Einar Stefferud V2LNI-PEOPLE at MIT-MC People using Pronet/V2LNI Ring networks. Coordinator: LWA at MIT-MC VIDEODISC at MIT-AI Videodisc discussion group. The permanent archive for this list is the MIT-AI file: GEOFF;VIDISC RECORD All queries and addition/deletion requests should be sent to VIDEODISC-REQUEST at MIT-AI. Coordinator: GEOFF at SRI-CSL [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] WorkS at USC-ECLC WorkS discusses personal work station computers, such as the APOLLO work station computer, the Three Rivers Corporation PERQ, or the recently announced Xerox STAR. WorkS provides a way for interested members of the ARPANET community to discuss what is wrong with these machines, compare notes on work in progress, and share useful insights about these kinds of systems. Mail may also be sent to WorkS at MIT-MC or WorkS at BRL. A special address has been established for descriptive/biographical infomation about list members, so we each know where the others are coming from: WorkS-Census at MIT-AI. Archived Digest messages are kept at USC-ECLB in the files: PS:WORKS.RECENT PS:VOLUME-1.TXT All queries, addition/deletion requests, and problem reports should be sent to WorkS-Request at USC-ECLC or WorkS-Request at MIT-MC. Coordinator: Jonathan Alan Solomon [see above note on list-maintenance correspondence] End of Interest-Groups List ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.