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From: Laws@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA (Ken Laws)
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Subject: Splitting the List
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 12:18:24 EST
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I recently received this request from an AIList reader:

  If there is a way to -just- get the seminar announcements periodically
  distributed to AIList, then I would like to be placed in that category.
  If this is not possible, then I wish to be removed from AIList completely.

I have previously suggested that seminar and conference notices should be
split out as a separate list (at least as long as other traffic remains
so high), but no one has stepped forward to do the remailing.  I haven't
the energy to maintain two distribution lists.  Volunteers are welcome.

I'm sure there is still plenty of interest in other list topics.  The
NL-KR@Rochester list is doing fine, forwarding a great many natural-language
messages that would not have appeared in AIList.  IRList%VPI.CSNet has
likewise been successful with information-retrieval topics.  AI-Ed@SUMEX
is alive and well.  So is the Prolog Digest, which predates AIList.

One reason for splitting the AIList is to reduce Arpanet traffic, which has
been rather high lately, and to reduce costs for those who have to pay
for the transmissions.  Another is to reduce the difficulty for the next
AIList moderator if I have to drop out.  The best reason, though, is to
boost discussion of the topics that most interest you.

					-- Ken Laws