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From: w2xd@mtu2d.att.com (Douglas N Zuckerman)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Cracow Int'l Workshop on Req'ts and Techniques for NM
Keywords: Operations, Systems, Telecommunications
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:00:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T


Below is some further information about this workshop.  The call
for participation was posted previously.

-------------

We are still in planning stage for this event. We are looking for proposals
for tutorials (in English, Polish or Russian) in subjects listed in the
anouncement and for pannel sessions, any for any other ideas you may have.

Cracow is a very nice and very historic town.  We are expecting
about 100 to 150  participants, many of them from the former
Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc.

Please contact either of us directly if you wish to contribute,
participate, or if you need additional information.

Janusz Filipiak, Workshop Chairman
Telecommunications Department
The University of Mining and Metallurgy
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Cracow, Poland
Phone +48 12 34 55 82 (Your English will be understood)
Fax +48 12 34 23 72
Email gefilipi@cyf-kr.edu.pl

or

Walter J. Buga, Workshop Vice-Chair
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Room 2G-416
Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
Phone: +1 908 949 3721
Fax: +1 908 949 8753
E-mail: buga@homxc.att.com
From: w2xd@mtu2d.att.com (Douglas N Zuckerman)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Cracow Int'l W'shop on Req'ts and Techniques for Network Management
Keywords: Operations, Information Processing, Systems Engineering
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:00:25 GMT
Expires: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: AT&T


Preliminary Announcement and Call for Participation
Cracow International Workshop on Requirements and Techniques for
Network Management

May 19-21, 1993, Cracow, Poland

The Workshop is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
Committee on Network Operations and Management and Communication
System Engineering Committee with participation of the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6
on Network Management for Communication Networks.

The Workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of research,
technological solutions, standards, and user requirements for
network operations and management.

Papers on (but not limited to) the following subject areas are
solicited:

Network Management Architectures
Performance Management
Security Management
Object Orientation in Network Management
Fault Management
Accounting Management
OAM Tools and Support Systems
ISDN and BISDN Operations and Management
Real Time Management Controls
Global Network Management
Configuration Management

Technical presentations, panel discussions, tutorials by leading
authorities, technical visits, and post conference tours are planned.
Please submit four copies of an extended abstract (3-5 pages)
or proposed tutorial by October 31, 1992 to:

Janusz Filipiak, Workshop Chairman
Telecommunications Department
The University of Mining and Metallurgy
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Cracow, Poland
Phone +48 12 34 55 82 (Your English will be understood)
Fax +48 12 34 23 72
Email gefilipi@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by January 31, 1993.
Materials for photocopying and distribution among workshop participants
must be received by the Organizing Committee before March 31, 1993.
Please note that the Cracow Workshop is scheduled just prior
to ICC'93 in Geneva, allowing Workshop participants to attend
that conference.
From: owens@cs.psu.edu (Robert Michael Owens)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: computer arithmetic conference
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:02:14 GMT
Expires: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science


                            ARITH 11

           11th IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARITHMETIC

                     June 30 - July 2, 1993

                    Windsor, Ontario, CANADA


                         CALL FOR PAPERS


Authors are invited to submit papers describing  recent  advances
on  all  aspects  of computer arithmetic, including, but not res-
tricted to the following topics:

   Foundations of number systems and arithmetic;
   Arithmetic algorithms and their analysis;
   Arithmetic processor design and implementation;
   Highly parallel arithmetic units and systems;
   New floating point chips, boards and systems;
   Standards for number representation and arithmetic;
   Impact of high level languages on arithmetic systems;
   Special function implementation; and
   Reliability and testability of arithmetic systems.

Four (4) copies of the complete paper should be submitted to  one
of the three Chairs no later than November 1, 1992.  In addition,
information about the paper (title, authors(s) and topic)  should
be  sent, either by e-mail  to jullien@engn.uwindsor.ca or by FAX
to Dr. G.A. Jullien, Dept. Electrical Engineering, University  of
Windsor,  (519) 973-7062.  Authors will be notified of acceptance
in February 1993, and final camera ready papers (up to  8  pages)
will be due in March 1993.  Conference proceedings will be avail-
able at the symposium.


   Americas' Chair        European Chair        Pacific/Asian Chair

Prof. Mary Jane Irwin   Dr. Simon Knowles    Prof. Naofumi Takagi
Dept. of CmpSc          Inmos Limited        Dept. of Info. Science
333 Whitmore Lab        1000 Aztec West      Faculty of Engr.
Penn State Univ.        Almondsbury          Kyoto Univ.
Univ. Park, PA 16802    Bristol BS12 4SQ     Kyoto 606-01
USA                     United Kingdom       Japan

Tel: (814) 865-1802     +44-454-616616       +81-75-753-5382
FAX: (814) 865-3176     +44-454-617910       +81-75-753-5379

mji@cs.psu.edu          simonk@inmos.co.uk   takagi@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp


Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
From: reynolds@cns.bu.edu (John Reynolds)
Subject: House Bill 4418 re: tax status of graduate student stipends
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:28:53 GMT

Bill H.R. 4418, now being considered by the U. S. House of
Representatives, would return the graduate student fellowship stipends
to tax-exempt status.  That is, stipends given in the form of a
scholarship or program for teacher education, as opposed to stipends
which are given as a return for service, which would still be
considered taxable income.  Prior to the Reagan-Bush era, graduate
student fellowship stipends were not taxed, and Tom Lewis (R- Florida)
has proposed a bill which not only would make these stipends
tax-exempt, but would also return all taxes paid since 1986 on these
stipends.  The Bill is H.R. 4418 and is currently under consideration.

The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)
supports this bill as a first step in completely returning all
graduate education stipends to tax-exempt status.  You can reach their
central office for NAGPS at (708) 256-1562 and request a recruitment
packet, filled with various information on what else NAGPS does and
can help with at your school. The regional Coordinator in the MidWest
is Monica White, at Western Michigan University.
  
To voice your opinion on the bill, call or write your local
congressperson.
  
If you do not know who your Representative is, call (800) 347-1997
(THE FEDERAL INFORMATION CENTER) and ask.
  
Please feel free to redistribute this message, and please direct
all further discussion of this issue to the soc.college.grad news
group.  Thank you.  
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From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
Subject: MAILING LIST: Cleveland Sports
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:57:41 GMT

Seeing an announcement for another Mailing List in this newsgroup reminded
me that the Cleveland Sports Mailing List should also be announced here,
even though it has been active for several months.

The Cleveland Sports Mailing List exists for the discussion of the Browns,
Indians, Cavaliers, Thunderbolts, Crunch, Lumberjacks, Cleveland State, 
University of Akron, Kent State, Ohio State, and many, many more obscure
topics in the broad area of Cleveland Sports, including but not limited to
the following:

	Cleveland area players on teams elsewhere;
	Visiting teams;
	Columnists in other cities writing about Cleveland;
	Of course, scores, stats and scouting reports.

To subscribe to the Cleveland Sports Mailing List, send e-mail to Rick Kowicki,
aj755@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu.  

RG

"He's the biggest thing in Cleveland that doesn't have tax abatement."
 -  Doug Dieken, on former Browns OL Ben Jefferson
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From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: RFD: misc.boycotts.announce moderated, misc.boycotts.misc
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:54:56 GMT

This is a request for discussion regarding creation of two newsgroups
for discussions and announcements on and of boycotts.

The groups:

misc.boycotts.announce	Announcements of boycotts. (Moderated)

A moderated group containing announcements of boycotts.


misc.boycotts.misc	Discussion on boycotts.

An unmoderated group for discussions on boycotts not limited to those
announced on misc.boycotts.announce, for theoretical discussions of
boycotts in general, etc.


The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.  More
complete descriptions for the groups are desirable.

More detailed charters are welcome.  Also, a volunteer moderator (or
moderators) for misc.boycotts.announce is needed.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
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From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: RFD: comp.international
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:54:36 GMT

This is a request for discussion regarding creation of an unmoderated
newsgroup for discussing internation aspects of computers, computer
software, telecommunications and so on.

comp.international	Discussions on hardware & software in international use.

Comp.international is a group for discussing design and use of
computer hardware and software (and other material in the field of
computing) around the world, ie. how to provide for differences in
character sets, cultural environments, styles in writing dates,
electrical and other requirements, legal requirements and so on.

The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.society.civil-liberty,soc.college,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk
From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: RFD: comp.society.acad-freedom.news, comp.society.acad-freedom.talk
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:46:13 GMT

This is a request for discussion regarding creation of two newsgroups
for discussions and news on academic freedom on computers and networks.

The groups currently exist as alt groups.  The alt versions of the
newsgroups have estimated July readership of 29000 and 9000.  (The
readership can be expected to increase as the Fall term starts in many
places.) About 390 folks get various versions of the mailling list.

Current charters:

Purpose: To discuss questions such as: How should general principles
of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom to read,
due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers and
networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can the
principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and networks be
defended?


comp.society.acad-freedom.news	News concerning academic freedom

CAF-News - The best notes from CAF-Talk as selected and abstracted by
a moderator. (Moderator of record Carl Kadie, kadie@eff.org.)


comp.society.acad-freedom.talk	Discussions on academic freedom

CAF-Talk - A free-speech forum focused on, but not limited to, these
issues.


Alternative names for the groups are:

c.s.freedom.acad.talk, c.s.freedom.acad.news
c.s.freedom.academic, c.s.freedom.academic.best
c.s.freedom.academic, c.s.freedom.academic.digest
c.s.acad-freedom, c.s.acad-freedom.best
c.s.acad-freedom, c.s.acad-freedom.digest

(or variations thereof)

The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,news.admin.policy
From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
Subject: RFD: Removal of Unused Newsgroups
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Marsnet
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:56:18 GMT

                The Need for a Call for Removal (CFR)
                        Procedure for UseNet:
               Formal Proposal for New UseNet Guideline

By: Aryeh M. Friedman (aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu)

	I recently did a line count on my .newsrc and found that there are
1660 groups in it.  Surely not all of them are needed.  To reduce the number
in a rational way I put forward the following procedure that should be added
to the offical set of UseNet Guidelines, maintained by Gene Spaford 
(spaf@cs.prudue.edu).  I already passed the idea past the readers of 
news.groups a few weeks ago.  Ok here is the proposed new guideline, in draft
form:

	Title: Procedure for removing unused newsgroups (aka Call for Removal
	       [CFR])

	Purpose: To allow for the orderly removal of unused newsgroup

	Procedural Details:

		Following the normal Request for Discussion (RFD)
	procedure a call to vote on a CFR can be made.  The vote will proceed
	in the normal voting procedure.  The only difference is that only a
	2/3 majority is needed for the CFR to pass not the normal 2/3 and
	100 more yes then no votes (see note 1 for reasons for this).

        It should be stated that there are two kinds of CFR's.  They are:

		1) Unconditional CFR -- Which takes effect no matter what upon
		verifaction of the CFR vote.

		2) Conditional CFR -- Basically voting on whether or not the
		newsgroup should be removed if certain traffic requirements are
		not met after a specfied time period.
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From: nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (Nick Fitzpatrick)
Subject: RFD: rec.games.diplomacy
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:55:16 GMT

This is a Request For Discussion on the creation of a newsgroup for
the Game of Diplomacy.

Group Name
----------

rec.games.diplomacy

Status
------

Unmoderated

Rational
--------

Diplomacy is a very popular board game, that has also been adapted to
play by mail (snail and E).  There are presently over 120 games ongoing
over the Internet, being played by people across the world.  There are
four automated Diplomacy programs (in four continents) connected to
the Internet processing games.  There is much discussion of the game in
the groups rec.games.pbm, rec.games.board and bit.listserv.dipl-l 
(dipl-l@mitvma.mit.edu).  The problem is that diplomacy is split
between two many places, and its bitnet list does not get a wide enough
distribution.


rec.games.diplomacy would provide a focus for discussion which
currently appears in a number of groups, often to the annoyance
of readers.


Charter
-------

The newsgroup would be for the discussion and orginisation of the game
Diplomacy.  Both regular (ie face to face) and play by mail would
be discussed.


Voting
------

If all goes according to plan, voting will take place one month from
the posting date of this RFD.


Follow-ups directed to news.groups
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.child-support,alt.dads-rights,alt.abortion.inequity,misc.legal
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Subject: 2nd RFD: misc.legal.family moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:59:18 GMT

Second Call, RFD: misc.legal.family (moderated)

PROPOSAL: This group would exist to provide a forum for people with an
interest in the family law system. eg: Divorce, Support, Custody, Visit-
ation, Paternity, and Dependency as they pertain to current existing law.

While some groups do exist in which sporadic discussion of these issues
occurs, too often the information value is lost to conversation which
turns to theory, opinion, and expressions of frustration. 

THE GROUP IS NOT SUGGESTED AS AN AVENUE OF LEGAL ADVICE. Instead it is
intended to provide legal information, and/or experiential information
which people can use to learn about the system(s) as they apply to a
particular state, or to the country. 

No perspectives would be favored; the existing groups which sometimes
attempt discussion of these issues have a leaning towards a particular
gender or outlook. misc.legal.family would foster no such favoritisms.

The group is proposed as moderated in an attempt to maintain an atmos-
phere of calm tansferral of information.

Expected topics would include (but aren't limited to):

general expectations of a divorce action
general occurrances in a contested custody action
general parameters of dependency
obtaining unpaid child support
obtaining ordered visitation
finding an appropriate attorney
general citations of state laws on topics in the threads

Some discussions on this proposed group have sporadically appeared in
alt.child-support and alt.dads-rights --originally, the suggestion was
to create it as an alt group. However, the consensus of supporters
believe that since it deals in general legality (as in misc.legal), it
should be a part of the misc.legal sub-hierarchy.

Comments and suggestions regarding misc.legal.family should be posted
to news.groups, or mailed to bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us. Please indicate
in any e-mail message if you'd like it forwarded into news.groups.
--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.aviation,sci.aeronautics,sci.military,rec.travel.air,rec.models.rc
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: RFD: rec.travel.marketplace
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:09:14 GMT

NAME: rec.travel.marketplace

CHARTER:

This group is for forsale and wanted postings for travel tickets,
accomodations, discount coupons, and the like.

Rationale:

"Ticket for sale" has been a distinct category of rec.travel.air
postings, and, as such, has been considered by some to be a category
they don't want to read *all the time*.  Therefore, much as the
comp.sys.*.marketplace groups have been formed to separate the traffic,
it has been suggested that a rec.travel.marketplace also be formed.

RFD duration:

This Request For Discussion will run through September 17, 1992.  At
that point, either a Call For Votes will be put forward or it won't.

Further Discussion:

All further discussion on this proposal should go to news.groups, rather
than rec.travel and/or rec.travel.air.
-- 
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,talk.politics.misc
From: techy@iastate.edu (Troy A Rutter)
Subject: RFD: rec.arts.sf.babylon5
Followup-To: news.groups
Summary: New newsgroup for Babylon5 SF show
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:08:49 GMT

This is a call for discussion on the creation of the new newsgroup
rec.arts.sf.babylon5.

Babylon 5 is a new Science Fiction television program that is being
produced by Warner Brothers domestic television, and will be
premiering this fall or early next year.

The purpose of this group will be to announce upcoming episodes, and
provide general commentary on the show.  It shall be UN-MODERATED,
however, I shall post a frequent FAQ: What is Babylon5 message every 2
weeks until the show airs, and then once a month during its run.

Until the show airs, discussion will be fairly limited.  But once the
season gets started, I am fairly positive that interst will arrise.
-- 
-Troy Rutter          Another Budding Programmer of the rare
Iowa State Univ.      species of technobabblonians.
Ames, IA 50010
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.tv
From: ramsey@cua.edu (Betsy Ramsey)
Subject: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.blakes7
Followup-To: news.groups
Summary: Discussion about new BLAKES 7 Newsgroup
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:08:59 GMT

This is a Request For Discussion about a proposed new group
rec.arts.sf.tv.blakes7, the purpose of which would be to discuss the
British science-fiction television show _BLAKES 7_.  Some preliminary
discussion has already taken place in rec.arts.tv.uk and alt.config.

Proposed Charter

    Discussion of all aspects of the British SF television show
    BLAKES 7.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the episodes;
    the characters; the actors and actresses; B7's depiction of a
    future society; B7's depiction of future technology; news from
    the BBC about B7; television stations airing the show;
    information and speculation about future programs and movies;
    conventions, clubs, merchandise, fanzine reviews, and other
    fan-related issues.

    The group would be unmoderated.

Background

    BLAKES 7 aired on the BBC in the UK in the late 1970's and early
    1980's.  It was first shown in the United States in the mid-1980's.
    Unique in its gloomy picture of humanity's future (the galaxy is
    ruled by a corrupt, totalitarian "Federation"; the show's
    protagonists are convicted criminals), and blessed with
    exceptionally strong characterizations, BLAKES 7 has spawned a
    dedicated fan following.

    At present, discussion about BLAKES 7 occurs primarily in two
    groups: rec.arts.tv.uk and rec.arts.sf.tv.  B7-related articles are
    also posted to rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.sf.misc and the various
    rec.arts.startrek groups on occasion.  A centralized group for B7
    discussion will make it easier to find all the B7-related articles
    and follow conversational threads.

The discussion period for rec.arts.sf.tv.blakes7 begins when the RFD
first appears in news.announce.newgroups, and ends 30 days later.

This article is being cross-posted to several groups.  Note that the
Followup-To: header field is set to news.groups.  Followup postings
should be directed there.

ekho.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Amanda Rothman)
epc@cs.nott.ac.uk (Eddie Clarke)
joeisham@sdf.lonestar.org (Joe Isham)
kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au (Kathryn Andersen)
ramsey@cua.edu (Betsy Ramsey)
sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne)
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