Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!emory!hubcap!crispin From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Call for discussion: eunet.parallel Keywords: parallel new_group Message-ID: <12724@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 21 Jan 91 19:14:38 GMT References: <12634@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Organization: University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Lines: 19 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu In article <12634@hubcap.clemson.edu> jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk (Fish) writes: >This is a proposal for the creation of a new group, to be called >eunet.parallel. [reasons: to support parallelism discussion local to Europe] >In the interim, please discuss in eunet.news.group only. Great, except that eunet.news.group is not available in North America. It seems to me that there is not a great deal of traffic in comp.parallel, and I would much rather see such traffic here. In a relatively esoteric field like parallel processing, I don't think that the concept of geographic locality is very useful, especially when exchanging concepts and information electronically. Crispin ----- Crispin Cowan, CS grad student, University of Western Ontario Work: MC28-C, x3342 crispin@csd.uwo.ca 890 Elias St., London, Ontario, N5W 3P2, ---> Support the GST: Canada's first fair tax <---