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From: rick@goforit.ads.com (Rick Chestek)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Creation of Mailing List for BBN Butterfly-switch based systems
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Date: 10 Jul 90 21:58:56 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
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In-Reply-To: <9579@hubcap.clemson.edu>

Identified below is a mailing list that I'd like to subscribe to.  If
appropriate, could you set it up as a regular newsgroup here?  If you
decide not to, please let me know so that I can subscribe personally.

In article <9579@hubcap.clemson.edu> you write:
>On June 28, 1990, in response to numerous requests, BBN Advanced
>Computers created new mailing list for discussion on topics concerning
>machines that we make.  Effective immediately, you may send mail to
>
>			bf-net@bbn.com
>
>and it will be forwarded to a wide audience of people interested in
>using the TC2000 and GP1000 computers.  As of today, the list consists
>of more than 125 people at numerous commercial and scientific sites
>around the world.  (Yes, there are foreign sites with our machines.)
>
>The list is unmoderated.  BBN ACI will serve only as mailing list
>administrator, and as participants in the list traffic.  We will not be
>exercising any editorial censorship of the postings, although you will
>see postings by BBN ACI people, both in response to other postings as
>well as original mail (as could only be expected).
>
>The list currently contains as many names as I could gather in a couple
>of hours of looking through obvious places, like our customer support
>database, old mail, etc.  However, I know that I have omitted a large
>number of possibly interested people.  There are many people who will
>read this who are the only person at their site actively reading news.
>Could everyone interested in the new list make some kind of effort to
>discover the potentially interested people at your site and pass this
>news posting onto them?  Don't just forward this to some
>wide-distribution list at your site without asking around first - if
>everyone at your site did that, well, nobody would want to sort through
>_that_ resulting avalanche of mail....
>
>If you either wish to be on the list and are not, or if I have put you
>on the list and you don't wish to be, please send mail to:
>	bf-net-request@bbn.com
>and I will make the changes.
>			PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
>do not send requests for additions/deletions to the list itself - other
>people on the list usually don't like to have to sort through tons of
>these administrative requests to get to the "real" postings.
>
>The list is ready now.  We hope this is a useful vehicle for you to
>share information and obtain feedback from other users.
>
>Jay Batson
>BBN ACI Software Product Support
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