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- From: cyberoid@u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds.apps
- Subject: ADMIN: Announcing sci.virtual-worlds.apps
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.063852.13333@kth.se>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 06:28:43 GMT
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- ANNOUNCING SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS.APPS!
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-
- WELCOME to sci.virtual-worlds.apps from your Principal Co-moderators,
- Bob Jacobson and Mark DeLoura. In the next week we'll be putting the
- final touches on this new newsgroup; in the meantime, we thought you'd
- like to know more about it.
-
- YOU MAY SUBSCRIBE TO SCI.V-W.APPS IMMEDIATELY BUT NO POSTING WILL GO
- UP UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND (JAN. 9-10). WE RECOMMEND YOU WAIT UNTIL THEN
- TO SEND POSTS AND EMAIL.
-
- We are pleased to invite you to a moderated discussion of virtual
- worlds technology as it is being applied today and will be applied
- tomorrow.
-
- This newsgroup is different from many of those on the USENET.
- sci.virtual-worlds.apps is designed as an online "magazine," with
- regular columns by selected individuals as well as daily submissions
- from the participants Regional Co-moderators will be keeping us up to
- date on developments around the world and specialists in applied
- technology will be posting regular commentaries on key trends and
- events, as they see them. In this way we hope to provide you with an
- online experience that rewards the precious time you spend with us.
-
- We'll be introducing our Regional Co-moderators over the next few
- weeks. Currently, we are finalizing arrangements with prospective
- Regional Co-moderators from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia,
- Canada, the United States, Latin America, Britain, Italy, Germany, and
- Sweden. If you are from somewhere else and would like to be a
- Regional Co-moderator, please send email to us in this regard. We
- also welcome aspiring "domain specialists" who can report by
- industrial sectors. Your postings generally will be classified by
- the field of industry/arts/education that they affect.
-
- In the meantime, we have a couple of rules for this newsgroup that
- we'd like to share with you:
-
- 1. WE WILL BE POSTING ONLY MESSAGES ABOUT ACTUAL
- APPLICATIONS, EITHER EXISTING OR IN THE WORKS (TO THE
- BEST OF OUR INFORMATION). Items about other issues
- (philosophy, media treatment of virtual worlds, and all
- manner of speculations about the future impact of this
- technology, in a general sense) should continue to be sent
- to sci.virtual-worlds.
-
- 2. When you post, please try to keep your messages tidy
- (lines of fewer than 70 characters in length) and relevant.
- If you're responding to another person's post, please be
- sure that the prior post is identified somewhere in your
- message. Also, although it's not required, do try to get
- your spelling correct and keep messages short:
- misspellings and messages over two pages in length will
- greatly diminish your readers. (This has been proven!)
-
- Professor Greg Newby of the University of Illinois will
- continue his mailing list service for those of you who cannot access
- the USENET. If you have problems with the mailing list, please send a
- message to Greg (gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu); we cannot help you in this
- regard.
-
- Our host for sci.virtual-worlds.apps is the Royal Institute of
- Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. (Mycket tack!) If you want to send
- a message directly via email, perhaps because your USENET access is
- restricted, you may send it to
-
- virtual@kth.se
-
- You can also fax news to Bob Jacobson at +1-206-781-5254. (Keep it
- succinct -- short!)
-
- We will also have an administrative address that you can reach
- by email for non-posting messages. And, eventually, we will have an
- applications FAQ to rival the one that exists for sci.virtual-worlds
- AND an archive for publishable papers. (Mark is updating the s.v-w FAQ,
- all the same.)
-
- Thanks for your patience in awaiting the arrival of
- sci.virtual-worlds.apps. It's our pleasure to bring this important
- and timely newsgroup to you. Please feel free to send us your
- comments and suggestions as you think of them. Like its forebearer,
- sci.virtual-worlds, sci.virtual-worlds.apps is YOUR newsgroup and its
- quality will be what YOU make it. Again, welcome to sci.virtual-
- worlds.apps!
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Bob Jacobson Mark DeLoura
- Principal Co-Moderator Principal Co-Moderator
- bluefire@well.sf.ca.us deloura@cs.unc.edu
- (President, (Graduate Student, Computer Science,
- WORLDESIGN, Inc., Seattle) Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
-