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From: highnam@SLCS.SLB.COM
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: re: eunet.parallel
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Date: 16 Jan 91 17:15:24 GMT
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 As you probably cannot tell from my email address I work
 for a global company and happen to be located in the US.

 I, being in the US, do not have access to eunet.news.group
 and so am unable to participate in the discussion that you
 have initiated, in the forum that you requested.  (Perhaps
 you would be so good as to repost this message there? Thanks.)

 Do you believe that there is something uniquely European that
 only deserves to be promoted on a local list?  I looked through 
 the topics you mentioned in your proposal (see below) and didn't
 find anything obviously regional.  

 1. ``paper abstracts''
	I personally read papers from all over the world.

 2. ``announcements of European seminars and conferences''
	Every interesting seminar and conference seems to have
	attendees from all over the world.

 3. ``problems with hardware/software''
	Last time I looked there were not too many vendors (or customers!)
	of parallel hardware and software.  This leads me to believe that 
	a request for free technical assistance (or commiseration)
	is best done as widely as possible.

 4. ``details of work being done in parallel computing within Europe''
	Will such work never appear in the literature or be presented
	at (non-European) conferences ?

 5. ``job openings''
	Do you believe that people who don't work in Europe now do not
        ever want to work in Europe ?  


 Awaiting the opportunity to vote,
				   Peter Highnam

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