Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!yetti!oz From: oz@yetti.UUCP Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,news.groups Subject: A paper about USENET is to be posted. Message-ID: <210@yetti.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 14:14:58 EST Article-I.D.: yetti.210 Posted: Tue Nov 24 14:14:58 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 04:29:22 EST Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Distribution: world Organization: York U. Computer Science Lines: 28 Keywords: USENET, research, feedback-loop Xref: yetti news.misc:972 news.admin:1249 news.groups:1866 This is an announcement for the posting of a paper titled USENET: An Examination of the Social and Political Processes of a Cooperative Computer/Communications Network Under the Stress of Rapid Growth By: Jerome Durlak Rory O'brien Ozan Yigit A draft version of this paper was briefly introduced at the last Usenix symposium, and few copies were handed out. We have received some feedback, and now we are ready to make the paper available to the USENET community for their commentary, flames, suggestions for further research etc. Sometime between Nov. 26-30, an introductory note plus two copies of this paper [one pre-formatted for dumb printers, and one in TeX source form] will be posted, probably to these newsgroups. If there is a better place to post this paper under news subgroups, please let us know. oz -- You see things, and you say "WHY?" Usenet: [decvax|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz But I dream things that never were; ......!seismo!mnetor!yetti!oz and say "WHY NOT?" Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yulibra|yuyetti] [Back To Methuselah] Bernard Shaw Phonet: [416] 736-5257 x 3976