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From: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
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Subject: Re: What is this newsgroup for anyway?
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Date: 24 Mar 89 18:29:09 GMT
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Good question. Seems to me that general technical discussion might as well
be carried on in the comp.{ai,neural-nets,etc} groups. Although, to tell
the truth, the signal-to-noise ratio in comp.ai is so high now that I've
all but abandoned it. (Is this what happens when the Humanities get
networked? :-)). 

Anyway, it _would_ be interesting to get some idea of the readership
(well, subscribership) of this group. I think it would be beneficial
to all if we had some idea of who is doing AI in Canada and where they
are located.  I'm willing to collect the data and post it, if you can
take the time to fill in the following form.  I'll summarize in a week
or so.

I think that the numbers are small enough to make this quite
feasible. Even if the response is enormous, I think this is probably
as worth spending net resources on as, say, the latest sources to
'hack'. I'm particularly interested in non-university feedback since
most CS departments in the country are doing something in AI.
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