From extropians-request@extropy.org Sat Aug 13 16:12:35 1994 Return-Path: extropians-request@extropy.org Received: from usc.edu (usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by chaph.usc.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.4) with SMTP id QAA10845 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 1994 16:12:28 -0700 Received: from news.panix.com by usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3-USC+3.1) id AA18704; Sat, 13 Aug 94 16:12:24 PDT Received: by news.panix.com id AA01378 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for more@usc.edu); Sat, 13 Aug 1994 18:01:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 18:01:21 -0400 Message-Id: <199408132201.AA01378@news.panix.com> To: Extropians@extropy.org From: Extropians@extropy.org Subject: Extropians Digest #94-8-147 - #94-8-148 X-Extropian-Date: August 13, 374 P.N.O. [18:00:57 UTC] Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org X-Mailer: MailWeir 1.0 Status: RO Extropians Digest Sat, 13 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 224 Today's Topics: Extropians Digest #94-8-122 - #94-8-130 [1 msgs] Recommended mailing lists [1 msgs] Administrivia: Note: I have increased the frequency of the digests to four times a day. The digests used to be processed at 5am and 5pm, but this was too infrequent for the current bandwidth. Now digests are sent every six hours: Midnight, 6am, 12pm, and 6pm. If you experience delays in getting digests, try setting your digest size smaller such as 20k. You can do this by addressing a message to extropians@extropy.org with the body of the message as ::digest size 20 -Ray Approximate Size: 59746 bytes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bo Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 18:57:59 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [#94-8-147] Extropians Digest #94-8-122 - #94-8-130 resend #94-8-102 Bo the Bohemian..... *****************************[ ****************%%%%Bo@bohemia.metronet.org%%%%********************** ------------------------------ From: Alexander Chislenko Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 11:00:13 -0400 Subject: [#94-8-148] Recommended mailing lists Sasha's list of lists - Version 1.00 August 10, 1994. --------------------- The following is a selected list of about 70 mailing list descriptions, contact addresses and related data. I expect the entries below to be of some interest to people who I may like. Mostly, these lists discuss the frontier scientific, technological and philosophical concepts, promote ideas of liberty, economic freedom, various alternative intellectual activities, etc. Some of the descriptions I copied from the periodic posting of the list of mailing lists currently maintained by Stephanie da Silva . You can find it on newsgroups: news.lists, news.answers, together with usage instructions. (The total number of lists advertised there is approaching a thousand). However, that 'superlist' is incomplete, partly because many list managers neglect to advertise their lists in it. If you are a list manager and have any interest in expanding your virtual community, you should consider advertizing it. So for a good portion of entries below I have done some searching. This list is an attempt to ease this path for you. The length and quality of the list description below do not correspond to the quality of the list itself. My personal favorites are the extropian list, fringeware and general semantics. I will try to improve this list, so any comments are welcome. I do not commit to anything though. If you want information on other lists, or usage instructions, look into the news.lists for the FAQ. You can also get it by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu under the directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mailing-lists. It is also accessible the World Wide Web: URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/cgi-bin/paml If you have a list that you want added to general posting, send a request to arielle@taronga.com. Include the list name, contact (request) address and a brief description of your list in the format of the mailing lists already included. If you want me to include your list description into this compilation, e-mail it to me, and I'll think of it. To get the latest copy of this list, please send a message with the subject line 'get lists.txt' to sasha@cs.umb.edu I am very grateful to people who sent me mailing list info, to people who will do it in future and to everybody who maintains all these lists and posts to them Please feel free to distribute this list for non-commercial purposes. Alexander Chislenko ========================================================================== agorics Agoric systems (computational economies) mailing list agorics@netcom.com albion New Paradigms Project / albionic research Ruling class / global conspiracy theories E-mail James Daugherty (jhdaugh@msen.mail.com) to subscribe James Daugherty, volunteer Postmaster for A-albionic Research, a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, and custom research since 1984. Introductory information and free articles and catalogs are located in the New Paradigms section of the Msen Market Place (Gopher) and Msen ftp site. ftp.msen.com (/pub/vendor/a-albionic) For those without Gopher or ftp Service or to be added to our Weekly Up-date List: e-mail jhdaugh@mail.msen.com, fax 1-313-885-1181, or A-A Research, POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220 (Snail mail info pack on request). Aleph To subscribe to aleph, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "Majordomo@gossip.pyramid.com": subscribe aleph This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to the aleph list. If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local redistribution list), you can use a command of the form: subscribe aleph other-address@your_site.your_net If you feel you need to reach a human, send email to aleph-approval@gossip.pyramid.com The following is a part of Aleph FAQ v1.5 explaining the basic structure of Aleph interests. It was too good to be edited. The rest of the FAQ can be found at ftp.netcom.com in pub/aleph together with lots of other texts. FAX / \ FIX --- FOX FIX (Fictual/Interactive/eXpressive): We are attempting to create an unprecedented, open-ended global interactive artwork which we refer to as FIXION, utilizing the Internet as both a creative medium and quasifictional context, for the purposes of evoking the artist in all of us, and for testing the possibility of changing reality through fiction. FIXION may be seen as a fusion of NetWorking and RolePlaying. FOX (Factual/Ontological/eXpositive): We are attempting to conglom a continually-scientifically-evolving, rigorous system of ontological and epistemological data for use in predicting and/or guiding the fate of humanity. In order to accomplish this, we must examine as many ontological models as we can find; "scientific" or "mystical," ancient or modern, sacred or profane. We must translate, learn, correlate, and unify them all. We seek FOXIENCE. The Rosetta Stone. FAX (Fluxual/Ambiknostic/eXegesive): The two focii explained above may be considered diametrically opposed (and indeed are intended that way), because we need to attract input from both "creative/intuitive" people and "analytical/scientific" people. We are aware that most people fall into one or the other of these groups, and are often unable to understand the terms used by the other, or the contexts in which such terms are used. This "babel-effect" has stymied and separated the intuitive and metaphysical arts from the physical and psychic sciences for two thousand years. Now that the findings of Quantum Physicists are beginning to coequal the pithy aphorisms of the Mystics, and even as the hypothesized Singularity draws near, it is high time to attempt their union into a single, relativistic, globally-available model. At current there are several models which are being used as the skeletii of this memestruct, which we call The AAleph. These include, but are not limited to, Terence McKenna's *TimeWave Zero*, the Qabalistic Tree of Life (with a large dash of Crowleyanity), the Tarot Deck, the eight-circuit structure of Timothy Leary (expanded by R.A. Wilson), Buckminster Fuller's *Synergetics*, Jungian *Synchronicity*, *The Dictionary of the Khazars*, *The Gurdjieff Work*, Alchemical and Rosicrucian texts, the Periodic Table of Elements, various cognitive models of consciousness, and the entirety of recorded art, history and science. algo-comp Algorithmic [music] composition mailing list This is a forum for issues concerning the creation of musical compositions using algorithmic processes. Some examples of topics for discussion include: * specific works and composers * implementation of algorithms * philosophical and aesthetic issues To subscribe to the list, send email to majordom@heinous.isca.uiowa.edu. The following line should be in the body (not the subject) of the message: subscribe algo-comp To send a message to the list, mail it to: algo-comp@heinous.isca.uiowa.edu Administrator: Dr. Kirk Corey Files available via anonymous ftp at heinous.isca.uiowa.edu, /ftp/pub/algo-comp. Files may be submitted to /ftp/pub/upload. Please include a descriptive .txt file with uploads. alife Contact: alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu Purpose: The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science, the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. The recent book _Artificial Life_, Christopher Langton, ed., Addison Wesley, 1989 introduces the scope of artificial life as a field of study. Alife was chartered in February 1990 at the Second Artificial Life Workshop, held in Santa Fe & organized by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute. The list is intended primarily for low-volume, high-content scientific correspondence and as a publically accessible forum for the interested members of the public. Membership as of July 1990 includes over 1,200 addresses on four continents. There is an FTP-accessible archives/repository of past traffic, software and papers. The list is maintained by the Artificial Life Research Group, Computer Science Department, Lindley Hall 101, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405. There are conditions on redistribution of the list in order to minimize any misunderstanding or exaggeration concerning this new area of study. AltInst Contact: AltInst-request@cs.cmu.edu (Robin Hanson) Purpose: You are invited to joint "AltInst", a new email list on Alternative Institutions. AltInst is solely for proposing and critiquing alternative institutions for various walks of life. Alternative ways to run conversations, countries, households, markets, offices, romances, schools, etc. are all fair game. AltInst is open to folks from any political persuasion, but general political flaming/discussion is forbidden. Skip the theory and just tell us your vision of how something could be different, and how that would work. Many of us are truly excited to hear about creative well-considered suggestions, no matter what the source, but quickly bored by both ideological is-to-is-not flaming, and partisan rah-rahs for anything "politically correct" in some camp. ALTMED A FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH IN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE altmed-res@virginia.edu TO SUBSCRIBE: Send the message subscribe altmed-res
to majordomo@virginia.edu This list was created to promote discussion and collaboration in the emerging field of alternative medicine research. The term "alternative" is used for the sake of convenience. Many of the therapies currently under study such as biofeedback, hypnosis, and guided imagery, have already accumulated a substantial body of research. Others such as ayurvedic, chinese medicine, and massage, are traditional therapies that have been used for centuries in many parts of the world. In the US, approximately one third of Americans use therapies such relaxation techniques, chiropractic, and massage, often in conjunction with conventional medical treatment. Research is currently underway to investigate the safety, efficacy, and validity of these therapies. I invite participation from academically trained researchers, alternative practitioners, and health care consumers who wish to share research findings, clinical case notes or studies, and philosophical views regarding: * past or current research * meetings, conferences and conventions about research in alternative medicine * research methods: design issues, paradigm fit, or statistical questions * potential collaborations We are a diverse, interdisciplinary group, and have much to contribute and learn from one another. For more information or if you have any questions, please write the list owner, Martha Brown Menard Arlist Contact: arlist-request@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Bob Dick) Purpose: Arlist is an open unmoderated mailing list to provide a forum for discussing action research and its use in a variety of disciplines and situations. As its name implies, action research is often a suitable research paradigm when both action outcomes and research outcomes are required. It is usually (but perhaps not always) cyclic, participative, and qualitative. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) -- o philosophical and methodological issues in action research o specific action research methodologies and methods o the use of action research for evaluation o actual case studies of action research o the use of action research methodologies for thesis research o increasing the rigour of action research To subscribe email a message to arlist-request@psych.psy.uq.oz.au with the subject arlist subscribe and the message subscribe arlist your-name your_email_address Selected materials are archived at psych.psy.uq.oz.au. They are available by anonymous ftp in directory pub/ar-list. AUtopia ______ A U t o p i a P r o j e c t ________ This list is dedicated to the discussion of creating an intentional high-tech community on the high seas. To join/leave or recieve info about the list, send email to: autopia-request@wixer.cactus.org To post a message to the list, send email to: autopia@wixer.cactus.org This is a semi-moderated list combined with an automated file/list server. If the first line of your message is a special command, the mailer will respond back to you. These are the commands: subscribe / add ..to join the list unsubscribe / drop ..to leave the list list ..to list the available files send [file] ..to send you the file name "FILE" help ..to send you THIS FILE (same as "send readme") For example, if your were to send the following message: To: autopia-request@wixer.cactus.org send faq You would receive a copy of the AUtopia FAQ the next day after the nightly batch file runs. Only one command per email message can be interpreted so far. Our archives are based on a Unix system, so the file listings will be Unix-style. Administrator: Jagwire X ba-liberty Contacts: majordomo@shell.portal.com (Jeff Chan, owner) ba-liberty-owner@shell.portal.com Purpose: Announcement of San Francisco Bay Area libertarian meetings, events, activities, etc. Bits-n-Bytes BITS AND BYTES ONLINE EDITION, an electronic newsletter for text-based lifeforms, is published irregularly. Correspondence regarding Bits and Bytes Online Edition is always welcome and may be sent to to: JAYMACHADO@delphi.com Bits and Bytes Online Edition will contain news of interest to anyone interested in the state of the increasingly high-tech world we're living in, in the computer industry, and more importantly in the *future*. We examine how future technology will impact our public and private lives, and how we can learn (maybe) to use to use our skills and technologies wisely. We explore the impact of technology on society and vice versa. SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING: To subscribe send a message to listserv@acad1.dana.edu, no subject, text: SUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@acad1.dana.edu, no subject, text: UNSUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes BIVERSITY Contact: LIZ@AI.MIT.EDU Purpose: For announcement of Boston-area events and organizing (not a discussion-type list). blister Contact: majordomo@world.std.com Purpose: Just lists of people's favorite/least favorite books. Find someone whose taste matches yours and you find a bunch of books you'll probably enjoy. No discussion of books. For info, send mail to the contact address, with "info blister" on a line by itself in the BODY (not Subject:) of the letter. To subscribe, send mail to the contact address with "subscribe blister" on a line by itself in the body of the letter. ca-liberty Contacts: majordomo@shell.portal.com (Jeff Chan, owner) ca-liberty-owner@shell.portal.com Purpose: Announcement of California libertarian meetings, events, activities, etc. See also ba-liberty for separate local San Francisco Bay Area libertarian announcements. castaneda Contact: castaneda-request@earth.com (Tony Sanders) Purpose: To discuss and share experiences related to those in Carlos Castaneda's books. To subscribe to the mailing list please send a brief message to the contact address. There is also an archive of the list and some related materials (including an extensive bibliography) available via anonymous ftp to earth.com in pub/archive/cc. CEI - Competitive Enterprise Institute Contact: cei@digex.com (Alexander "Sasha" Volokh) Purpose: The CEI mailing list, created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, distributes CEI op-ed pieces and other materials. Founded in 1984, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government. The Institute is founded on the belief that free markets and individual liberty best serve the public interest by providing freedom of choice and equal opportunity. conlang Contact: listserv@diku.dk Purpose: The conlang mailing list is devoted to a discussion of any and all constructed languages (also known as artificial languages, planned languages, etc). If you want to publicize your own language, or if you need help finding information about some other language project, or if you want to discuss the relative merits of various tongues, conlang is the place to be! To join, send a message to listserv@diku.dk containing the text "subscribe conlang". Connectionists Contact: Connectionists-Request@cs.cmu.edu Main address: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Moderators: Dave Touretzky, David Redish Connectionists is a restricted mailing list primarily intended for discussion of technical issues relating to neural computation, and dissemination of information directly relevant to researchers in the field. It is NOT a public digest like AIList or the NEURON digest; membership is restricted to students and faculty members who are actively involved in connectionist research. If you would kindly send a list of your papers or other activities in this area, we will be glad to add you to the list. Please include your full name. conspire Conspiracy Nation mailing list. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@prairienet.org with: subscribe conspire My Name in its body Maintainer: Brian Francis Redman bigxc@prairienet.org "The Big C" cryonics Contact: kqb@whscad1.att.com (Kevin Q. Brown) Purpose: Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the future. This list is a forum for topics related to cryonics, which include biochemistry of memory, low temperature biology, legal status of cryonics and cryonically suspended people, nanotechnology and cell repair machines, philosophy of identity, mass media coverage of cryonics, new research and publications, conferences, and local cryonics group meetings. CUDigest Computer Underground Digest list CUDIGEST-Request@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU CYBSYS-L Cybernetics and systems theory cybsys-l@bingvmb.bitnet This list is intended to serve all those working in or just interested in the fields of Systems Science, Cybernetics, and related fields (e.g. General Systems Theory, Complex Systems Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory, Computer Modeling and Simulation, Control Theory, Operations Research, Network Theory, Self-Organizing Systems Theory, Information Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory). The list is moderated by members of the Systems Science department of the Watson School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). All kinds of postings are welcome, including discussion, argument, suggestions for improving the list/file server, calls for papers, conference announcements, computer programs, and requests for references and literature. Moderator: CYBSYS@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU Contact for comment/suggestions: Cliff Joslyn, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu cypherpunks The cypherpunks list is a forum for discussing personal defenses for privacy in the digital domain. It is a high volume mailing list. There is no digest version available. For subscription info, contact cypherpunks-request@toad.com List manager: Eric Hughes There is an announcements list which is moderated and has low volume. Announcements for physical cypherpunks meetings, new software and important developments will be posted there. Mail to cypherpunks-announce-request@toad.com if you want to be added to or removed from the announce list. All announcements also go out to the full cypherpunks list, so there is no need to subscribe to both. EPIC Alert Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) list The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest research center in Washington, DC. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal, medical record privacy, and the sale of consumer data. EPIC is sponsored by the Fund for Constitutional Government and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. EPIC publishes the EPIC Alert and EPIC Reports, pursues Freedom of Information Act litigation, and conducts policy research on emerging privacy issues. For more information email info@epic.org, or write EPIC, 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301, Washington, DC 20003. +1 202 544 9240 (tel), +1 202 547 5482 (fax). To subscribe to the EPIC Alert, send the message: SUBSCRIBE CPSR-ANNOUNCE Firstname Lastname to listserv@cpsr.org. (You may also receive the Alert by reading the USENET newsgroup comp.org.cpsr.announce.) esperanto Contact: esperanto-request@rand.org (Mike Urban) Purpose: This list is a forum for people interested in the neutral international language Esperanto. Discussions about the language itself, the Esperanto movement, publications, and news are encouraged; of course, discussion *in* the language itself are especially encouraged, although English translations may be advisable when the material is of interest to beginners or non-Esperantists. Extropians Contact: extropians-request@extropy.org Purpose: Extropians is devoted to the discussion and development of Extropian ideas. The term "Extropian" was coined by the publishers of the journal "Extropy", which is devoted to Extropian philosophy. This list is a spinoff of the journal. Extropians may be roughly described as those simultaneously interested in anarchocapitalist politics, cryonics (and other life extension techniques), the technological extension of human intelligence and perception, nanotechnology, spontaneous orders, and a number of other related ideas. If you are an Extropian, the concept that these are all related topics will seem natural. All Extropians (and those who suspect that they are Extropians) are invited to join. The list is run from a commercial site and to strictly cover costs there is a fee charged to join the list, $14 per year (less for ExI member and Journal subscribers and students). A 30 day free-trial is given to all subscribers. ExI also offers a low-traffic Exi-Essay list: exi-essay@gnu.ai.mit.edu and a number of local lists announcing extropian events in different geographical areas. For more information on the Extropy Institute Inc, a not for profit educational foundation, send mail to exi-info@extropy.org or write to Extropy Institute, 13428 Maxella Avenue, #273 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. Fringeware Contact: fringeware-request@illuminati.io.com Purpose: A moderated list devoted to cyberculture and the like. This is a very good list, and I would like it to be more acquainted with the extropian list. Frog Farm Contact: frog-farm-request@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu Purpose: The Frog Farm is devoted to the discussion of claiming, exercising and defending Rights in America, past, present and future. The main topics are issues which involve a Free People and their Public Servants, and how to deal with the various problems that can arise between a free person who exercises and demands Rights and errant public servants who exceed the scope of their powers. Membership is restricted at the discretion of the moderator. Currently, the list discussion is non-automated. To subscribe, send mail to the above contact address. The BODY of your message (NOT the Subject line) should contain something similar to: ADD joeuser@somehost.com or REMOVE joeuser@somehost.com FSM: (U) - Free Social matrix messaging mailing list a "people-centric alternative for future symbolic communication" - discussion of intelligent communication systems, message ratings, etc. Join by sending a message to server@dark4ce.hacktic.nl containing a the line: join fsm Maintainer: gerald@tacit.hacktic.nl (Gerald A. de Jong) future-culture future@nyx.cs.du.edu Future-Tech Future technology mailing list; currently dormant; This list is for discussing science fact and science future, current discoveries and hypothetical possibilities. News tidbits, speculation, and longer essays are all welcome. The list may appeal to readers of publications such as Omni, Scientific American, Extropy, or the Whole Earth Software Review, to name a few. Possible topics may range through but not be limited to: --Evolution of the Net and electronic communications --Information science and management --Artificial intelligence, neural nets, robotics --medicine, life extension, cybernetics, longevity --ecology, natural resources, energy sources --physical and societal evolution --Memetics and systems theory Subscription requests and Administrivia to: future-tech-request@cs.umb.edu List address: future-tech@cs.umb.edu fuzzy-mail Contact: listserver@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Purpose: Discussion of fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets. Is linked with the NAFIPS-L list and the comp.ai.fuzzy news-group, but all messages are screened by a moderator, so the noise level is low. Send SUB FUZZY-MAIL Name in the body of an otherwise empty mail to listserver@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at to subscribe. For "Name", please specify your real name, e.g. Wolfgang Slany. Your email address will be automatically extracted from the header of your mail. Send all messages that you want to be distributed to the subscribers to fuzzy-mail@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at, and send every control command such as GET FUZZY-MAIL INFO to listserver@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at GIFTEDNET-L listserver@birds.wm.edu The Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary offers the listserv, GiftedNet, as a place to exchange infor- mation about gifted education. In particular, we hope the listserv will facilitate the dissemination of information about the science and language arts curriculum frameworks and units developed by the Center as part of the national Jacob Javits Curriculum Projects for High Ability Learners. The listserv can be used by educators to share experiences and ideas concerning the units as well as to discuss general issues about gifted education. If you have questions about the list, please send e-mail to: lnboyc@mail.wm.edu GNN Global Network Navigator list gnn-announce@gnn.com Discusses Corporate Guidelines for Internet Usage, Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) and other net issues. Moderator: Dale Dougherty (dale@ora.com) GNN sets up various discussion groups on particular net topics. The first group discusses AUPs. You may join by sending email to listproc@online.ora.com with the following line in the body of the message: subscribe corp-aup YourName of YourOrganization GS General Semantics list To send mail to the other participants, send it to the address: gs@lumina.ucsd.edu For administration-type messages: mcpherso@lumina.ucsd.edu HotWired Wired current news To subscribe to the HotWIRED mailing list, send a message to infodroid@wired.com with the message subscribe hotwired in the body of the message. IPCT-L on LISTSERV@GUVM or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List (IPCT-L) was created February 1992 by the Center for Teaching and Technology (CTT) at the Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University. A special effort will be made to promote an international forum for pedagogical issues important to higher education involving teaching with technology, and especially with connectivity and networking. A goal is to create a forum for the discussion of computing and other technology that can be used to promote learning. Topics for discussion may involve teaching and training; collaboration; partnerships among learners, faculty or teachers, and other interested persons in the educational community; and research that reflect these interests. The decade of the 1980s was characterized by the _personal_ computer, and development of individual product- ivity. The focus of the IPCT-L, as we move toward the 21st century, is that _interpersonal_ computing and technology will tie persons together throughout the world -- to share ideas and solve problems. Besides creating a forum for the topics of interest noted above, another interest of the CTT is to publish a scholarly, refereed international journal. To that end, the IPCT-L will develop a subscription list and act as a resource to develop the community necessary to review articles and recommend editorial policies as these publishing goals move forward. To subscribe send the following in an interactive command (TELL or SEND) or in the BODY of mail (NOT the Subject:) to LISTSERV@GUVM on Bitnet or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU on Internet: SUBSCRIBE IPCT-L yourfirstname yourlastname Example: SUBSCRIBE IPCT-L Mary Doe Owner: Zane Berge or Info-PGP Contact: info-pgp-request@lucpul.it.luc.edu Purpose: Discussion of Phil Zimmerman & Co.'s Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) public key encryption program for MS-DOS, Unix, SPARC, VMS, Atari, Amiga, and other platforms. Mirror of alt.security.pgp and related articles on sci.crypt. interest-groups Contact: interest-groups-request@nisc.sri.com Purpose: This file provides a list of various discussion lists available to network electronic mail users. The file is now available for anonymous FTP from host fs3.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.53) in directory netinfo. The pathname of the file is netinfo/interest-groups. There is currently no electronic mail access to this file. To keep people informed about changes to the file, there is a mailing list for List-of-Lists "update notices". When any updates are made to the file, an announcement message will be sent to the notification list. Copies of the file itself will not be sent to the list. Site representatives who maintain or redistribute copies of this file for their own networks (e.g, DECNet, Xerox, BitNet, MailNet, etc.) and who cannot access the file by Internet FTP may make arrangements to have the file sent to them, if necessary. File copies will normally not be sent to individual users. To get on or off the notification list, send requests to interest-groups-request@nisc.sri.com. Kurt Goedel Society Contact: kgs@csdec2.tuwien.ac.at Purpose: The Kurt Goedel Society is setting up an electronic mailing list for members and people interested in the activities of Society. Information about the Goedel Colloquia, Calls for Papers, the Collegium Logicum Lecture Series, the Newsletter, and information from sister societies will be distributed. If you would like to be included in the mailing list, or have any questions, send an email to: kgs@csdec2.tuwien.ac.at Leri-L (Leri-L Metaprogramming Mail Service) Contact: leri-request@pyramid.com Purpose: The Leri-L list is for the bravest of net.addicts who are willing to give up their subscriptions to every other mailing list in order to keep up with the sheer volume of posts on Leri. There is never a central theme to the discussions on the list, but one thing most of the subscribers have in common is an appreciation for psychedelic pharmaceuticals. Best thing for you to do is to check out the FAQ which is in the archives, reachable via anonymous FTP at bertha.pyramid.com. Basically Leri is an electric commune, and is probably one of the most interesting, albeit laden by its own verbosity, mailing lists one could ever hope to be a part of. Go read the FAQ. libernet Contact: libernet-request@dartmouth.edu (Barry S. Fagin) Purpose: Libernet is a Libertarian mailing list. The list is available in two modes: as a mail reflector and as a digest. LIBFEM Contact: libfem-news-request@math.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) libfem-talk-request@math.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) Purpose: The focus of LIBFEM is the classical liberty and individual rights perspective as applied to feminist issues, such as issues regarding ideology, politics, culture, gender, etc., in order to establish a network for information, discourse, cooperation, encouragement and consciousness raising. There has always been an element of individualism in the various women and feminist movements, although this element seems to have been somewhat neglected in recent movements. LIBFEM has been divided into two groups: LIBFEM-NEWS (low volume; news items and original postings) and LIBFEM-TALK (news and discussion; occasional high volume). List-Managers Contact: Brent@GreatCircle.COM (Brent Chapman) Purpose: There was a "Mailing Lists" workshop session at the USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VI) in Long Beach, CA, on October 22, 1992. The participants in that workshop expressed a desire for a mailing list for discussions of issues related to managing Internet mailing lists, including (but not limited to) software, methods, mechanisms, techniques, and policies. I've created the list as "List-Managers@GreatCircle.COM". That address is a direct mail relector: all messages sent to that address are immediately forwarded to the list. There is a digestified version of the list available as "List-Managers- Digest@GreatCircle.COM". The digestified version has exactly the same messages as the direct version; the messages are simply bundled into digests daily (or more frequently, if traffic warrants). Both lists are unmoderated. To join the List-Mangers mailing list, send the command subscribe list-managers in the body of a message to "Majordomo@GreatCircle.COM". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such a a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-list-managers": subscribe list-managers local-list-managers@your.domain.net To subscribe to the digestified version, substitute "list- managers-digest" for "list-managers" in the examples above. Logo Contact: logo-friends-request@aiai.ed.ac.uk Purpose: Discussion of the Logo computer language. lojban Contact: listserv@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Automated Listserver) lojbab@access.digex.net (Bob LeChevalier/John Cowan) Purpose: To use, discuss, and contribute to the development of the constructed human language called Lojban (known in earlier versions as Loglan). Lojban has a grammar based on predicate logic, and vocabulary built from the six most widely spoken human languages. It is intended as a tool for experimental linguistics, as a medium for communication with computers, and as a possible international auxiliary language. List participants range from novice to skilled. Up to 50% of list traffic is in the Lojban language. Novice questions are welcomed. Lojban List is an automated listserv. To be added to the list send to the listserv address above: subscribe lojban firstname lastname The listserver will add you at the address from which it thinks you sent the request. If you need to be added at a different address, or need other manual assistance, contact the second address. The Logical Language Group, Inc. asks new subscribers to send a postal mailing address to the second address, so that they can be added to the organization mailing list. An archive of list traffic and material about the Lojban language may be found at ftp.cs.yale.edu, directory pub/lojban Migra-List Contact: migra-list-request@cc.utah.edu moliva@cc.utah.edu (Maurizio Oliva) Purpose: Mailing list on international migration. Mind-L Contact: mind-l-request@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey) Purpose: Mind-L is a discussion group for people interested in mind altering techniques in general, and mind machines (light & sound, TENS/CES, electromagnetic pulse, floatation) & biofeedback equipment in particular. Related topics include smart nutrients, hypnosis, relaxation techniques and subliminal tapes/videos. Conversation ranges from serious research to home electronics to amateur personal observations. This group does not cover hallucinatory drugs (eg. LSD). The subject may come up from time to time, but there are other lists which already give extensive coverage of that topic. To subscribe send an e-mail to with nothing in the subject line and only the words "subscribe mind-l " in the text. Some back issues and other related documents and programs are stored on Mind-L's ftp site. The address is asylum.sf.ca.us. Logon as "anonymous" and use your email address as a pass word. Look in the directory /pub/mind-l. MOCHIN - MIND, MATTER & MASHIACH: A forum for discussing ultimate reality and the nature and role of intelligence, especially as concerns the integration of higher and lower in the context of Jewish and metaphysical thought. While the Jewish context is formally required by Nysernet, we are open to insights from all traditions. You are cordially invited to exchange thoughts on the role of intelligence in world transformation. Suggested foci include: intuition, creativity, vision, genius, breakthrough, conscience, mission, obsession, destiny, desire, will, altruism, essence, being, consciousness, faith, certainty, science and religion, objectivity, immortality, etc. The command to subscribe is "subscribe MOCHIN your name" and should be sent as a message to "listserv@israel.nysernet.org" and not to the list address. MOCHIN is sponsored by the Project Mind Foundation. List moderator: David S. Devor MUD Contact: jwisdom@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joseph Wisdom) Purpose: If you are new in the MUD world, or are simply looking for new places to get into, try subscribing to Internet Games MUD-List today! Make sure to include the string "mud list" in the subject header. NERaves (Northeast Raves) Contact: listserv@umdd.umd.edu Purpose: One of several regional rave-related mailing lists, NE-Raves covers the Northeastern U.S., including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. If you wish to subscribe, mail listserv@umdd.umd.edu with the phrase: add ne-raves name@address as the only line in the message. It will automatically reply with all the information you need to know to be a NE Raves CyberTribe member. :) neuron Contact:neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Peter Marvit) Purpose: Neuron-Digest is a moderated list (in digest form) dealing with all aspects of neural networks (and any type of network or neuromorphic system). Topics include both connectionist models (artificial neural networks) and biological systems ("wetware"). Back issues and limited software is available via FTP from cattell.psych.upenn.edu. The Digest is gatewayed to USENET's comp.ai.neural-nets. new.country Contact: oceania@world.std.com Purpose: Discussion of the new country Oceania. This beautiful sea-city in the Caribbean will be the center of freedom on this planet. It has already been featured nationwide in Details magazine, Boating magazine, The Elliot Wave Theorist, PC Techniques, and the Art Bell show. International coverage, too numerous to mention, has also occurred. newlists New List Announcements NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU Contact: info@vm1.nodak.edu (Marty Hoag) Purpose: This is a mailing list "clearing house" for new mailing lists. Subscribers will get announcements of new lists that are mailed to this list. NewsCom Contact: starkid@ddsw1.mcs.com (Lance Sanders) Purpose: To make available synergies discerned in, and created from, print news media (up to a 12-year time-span). Many "facts," particulary scientific ones, have a habit of changing with time. NewsCommando shows extreme prejudice toward those articles whose contents exhibit "legs." The depth of insight possible using the information mosaic method can be staggering. A form of electronic magazine, NewsCommando can serve as a reference tool, offer unique jump-off points for Medline, PaperChase, or other searches, and, in many ways, is the "poor-man's IdeaFisher/IdeaBank." Vol. 1 will contain the following articles: ChemTao: Synergies In the Life Sciences EarthWatch1: Defining the Scope of Environmental Destruction Why Euthanasia Must Never Be Legalized Use "NewsCom request" in the "Subject:" field of message headers. Indicate article title(s) desired or "all" in body of message. Articles will be deposited in your mailbox with a "NewsCom/Vol.#" Subject header. Most will be in excess of 20K. Please group-save them to a file for later reading. NSG NSG-D Nanotechnology Study Group NSG is moderated. Its function is to publish the lecture schedule of the MIT Nanotechnology Study Group. Very rarely other notices dealing with events of exceptional interest will be posted. Discussion of these lectures and any other matter involving nanotechnology should be directed to NSG-D. Both these lists are being handled by a program that permits automatic enrollment and unenrollment. If you know someone who should be on either list, tell them to send the message 'subscribe nsg' or subscribe nsg-d' to 'majordomo@world.std.com'. (Majordomo is the name of the mailing list program.) If you want to unsubscribe to either group, send the message 'unsubscribe nsg' or 'unsubscribe nsg-d' to majordomo@world.std.com. If you want to inform the NSG list of an event of exceptional interest, post the news to nsg@world.std.com. If you wish to discuss any aspect of nanotechnology, post that discussion to nsg-d@world.std.com. If you wish to reply to a message on nsg-d, please check the header on your reply to make certain your mailer has understood your wishes. pagan Contact: pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Stacey Greenstein) Purpose: To discuss the religions, philosophy, etc. of paganism. Paramind List Name: Paramind@eskimo.com This is a mailling list for discussing concepts of computer-generated writing especially those related to the theory of the "telical exhaustion of the interaction of words." Telical means, "towards an useful end." The Paramind Brainstorming program, which was created with this theory in mind, will be discussed in detail. Appropriate Topics include: * Speculating on the theory of "telical word-interaction exhaustion." * Use of this theory for important research and aesthetics. * How we can come up with useful and unique statements by computer means. * Examples of uses of the Paramind program, such as merges and new word categories. NO long postings from universities, companies or individuals regarding AI conferences will be accepted. No postings of subject matter not directly related to producing text-output by computer means. This list is not moderated so all messages sent to the list are immediately forwarded to the list. Depending on the traffic of the list, it may be edited in digest form for the convenience of the participants. To join or be removed from the Paramind mailing list, send a message to Paramind-request@eskimo.com. There is also a FAQ for this list. It is being kept at eskimo.com in /usr/ftp/paramind as paramind.faq and is available via anonymous FTP. List Coordinator: telical@eskimo.com More information can be received by sending a request to the list coordinator. You don't have to be put on the mailing list to receive it, but indicate this when requesting. PKD-list Contact: pkd-list-request@wang.com Purpose: The discussion of the works and life of Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), one of the world's most unusual science fiction writers. Topics include his books and stories, and books and stories about him and his life; however, discussion can (of necessity) branch out into the nature of reality, consciousness and religious experience. Quanta Contact: da1n@andrew.cmu.edu Purpose: Quanta is an electronically distributed magazine of science fiction. Published monthly, each issue contains short fiction, articles and editorials by authors around the world and across the net. Quanta publishes in two formats: straight ascii and PostScript* for PostScript compatible printers. To subscribe to Quanta, or just to get more info, send mail. SKEPTIC Contact: LISTSERV@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Purpose: SKEPTIC is a mailing list devoted to critical discussion of extraordinary claims. Among the paranormal topics that are commonly examined are parapsychology and psychic claims, creationism, cult archaeology, UFO's, cryptozoology, reincarnation/survival, quackery, the occult and divination; but the discussion is not limited to any predetermined set of magical beliefs or alleged pseudosciences. In connection with paranormal claims, issues involving science and philosophy in general are often raised. There is no policy of excluding any topic from consideration. While the common point of view expressed is skepticism about claims that go against current scientific pictures, critical approaches to science itself are also encouraged. To subscribe send a mail message to LISTSERV@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU @JHUVM with the one-line message: SUBSCRIBE SKEPTIC your-full-name SkillsBank Contact: sun!kass!richard (Richard Karasik) Purpose: I'd like to get people together on a mailing list who are willing to share their skills with others - not just the computist ones, althogh that's handy to know, but some of the oddball ones that we all seem to have aquired. Ground rules: the list is not going to be publicly available but requests to the list for specific skills will be passed on to the people that have them, and they can decide about the level of participation they want to have. The only public piece that will be mailed around is the new skills that have been added, and the new requests for assistance. I am open to any other suggestions for how to make this work. SOM - Society of Mind list Discussion of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind book/theory. Currently this list is dormant; with some effort, we can revitalize it! The list address: minsky-admit@media.mit.edu requests may be sent to: why@media.mit.edu, bl@media.mit.edu Sovokinform Contact: burkov@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr Purpose: CIS news, events, general information; usually in transliterated Russian. To subscribe, send message SUB SOVOKINFORM SPUNK Spunk Press is an independent publishing organization started at the end of 1992 by a few individuals, and run via a mailing list, which want to do the same thing for alternative literature as the Gutenberg project does to the classics. We want to archive scanned in, typed in or posted alternative and anarchistic material as well as distribute and encourage the production of such material online. Anything anarchistic, alternative, underground or fringe scientific will fit into the Spunk Press archive. If you want to join us in collecting material, consider joining the spunk-list. If you just want to get information about new titles and what's going on in Spunk Press, consider joining the spunk-info mailing list instead. To join anyone of these, please write to spunk-list-request@lysator.liu.se and specify which list you want to be added to. There is no need to subscribe to both lists since every piece of information sent to the spunk-info list will be thoroughly discussed on spunk-list first. TAG-L Talented and Gifted Education list Address: TAG-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU Subscribe by sending a "SUBSCRIBE TAG-L " command to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET (or LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU). Coordinator: Jolene Richardson jrichard@sendit.nodak.edu Established 01/11/91 The archives are available via anonymous FTP to VM1.NoDak.EDU with CD LISTARCH and DIR TAG-L.* to see the files. trepan-l trepan-d Weird news mailing lists. Maintainer: Jeremy J. B. Nguyen Trepan-L is for the publication of weird news items. (Note that this is distinguished from personal accounts of strange events.) Trepan-D, an associated list, is for discussion of weird news items, particularly those which appear on Trepan-L. The lists are separate so that people who don't care about discussion can still receive the odd news that they do care about. To subscribe to either list, send mail to "listserv@brownvm.brown.edu" with the body containing: SUB <> Your Name To unsubscribe, make the message read: UNSUB <> (In each case, replace <> with the actual name of the list, Trepan-L or Trepan-D. Don't include the brackets. Triples Contact: triples-request@hal.com (Howard A. Landman) Purpose: To discuss non-monogamous relationships, polyfidelity, and group marriage, and the various issues that arise in that context, like jealousy, shared housing, marriage laws, sex, etc. Not moderated. VEGGIE Contact: veggie-request@maths.bath.ac.uk Purpose: Any aspects of vegetarianism, vegetarian lifestyles, or indeed anything relevant to vegetarians. WFS-TALK - World Future Society's list; still at its infancy (started in July 1994) address: wfs-talk@pandora.sf.ca.us Administration: lisa@tmn.tmn.com (Lisa Kimball) - moderator; wfsadmin@tmn.com Y-RIGHTS Contact: LISTSERV@SJUVM.BITNET Purpose: Discussion Group on the Rights of Kids and Teens. Broad Spectra of discussion topics, with individual liberty being one of the main focuses. Open to kids, teens, young adults, adults, senior citizens, teachers, students, grade schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and university networks, gatewaying to other networks. Digest/Notebook version available, as well as past discussions. E-Mail to LISTSERV@SJUVM.BITNET the following: SUB Y-RIGHTS firstname lastname To subscribe to the list AFD Y-RIGHTS DIGEST Receive Weekly Digest of the list GET Y-RIGHTS FILELIST List of previous discussion logs Listowner: kudut@hamp.hampshire.edu (Kenneth Udut) YSN Contact: ysn-adm@zoyd.ee.washington.edu (John Sahr) Purpose: Activism on employment issues for scientists just beginning their careers. The Young Scientists' Network attempts to inform the press, the public, and government officials that there is no shortage of scientists; we hope to find traditional and non-tradiotional employment for scientists. Stories about the Young Scientists' Network have appeared in Science, Physics Today, and on National Public Radio; we've met with officials from the National Science Foundation and other agencies. =========================================================== ADDITIONAL USEFUL SERVICES: - mail-to-usenet gateways group.name@cs.utexas.edu group.name@paris.ics.uci.edu group.name@cs.dal.ca group.name@ug.cs.dal.ca - netnews - newsclipping service Allows you to scan the whole newsfeed for things you want, with a variety of options. sends results by mail. send a message to newtnews@db.stanford.edu, with just one word, help, in its *body*, to get info. - sorting incoming mail I personally use 'deliver' program to sort all my mail into folders - one for each mailing list I am on, a private folder, archive of my own messages, etc. I find it extremely useful. I can help you to configure it if you are interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sasha@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ End of Extropians Digest V94 #224 *********************************