[Mark_Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU: Request for Permission/CMU AI Repository]

From: cellular-automata-request@Think.COM
Date: Mon Jul 12 1993 - 23:55:53 UTC


Hello

I recently received the following request concerning the cellular
automata mailing list archives.  In principle, I have no problem with it
(the archives are currently publicly available by anonymous FTP anyway),
but I wanted to bounce the idea off of the membership of this list
before giving my OK.

If you have any strong objections to my making the list archives
available in this way, please let me (ca-request@Think.COM) know asap.
(PLEASE DO NOT COPY THE ENTIRE LIST.)  I will post a summary of
responses (if there are any) and let you know what I finally decide.

Your friendly list administrator,
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To: cellular-automata-request@Think.COM
Subject: Request for Permission/CMU AI Repository
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 20:21:54 -0400
From: Mark Kantrowitz <Mark_Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU>

Greetings,

Carnegie Mellon University is establishing an Artificial Intelligence
Repository to contain public domain and freely distributable software,
publications, and other materials of interest to AI researchers,
educators, and students. The AI Repository will be accessible by
anonymous FTP and AFS without charge. The contents of the repository
will also be published by Prime Time Freeware as an inexpensive
mixed-media (Book/CD-ROM) publication.

We would like permission to include the following material(s) in the
AI Repository and CD-ROM:

   Archives of the CA mailing list.

For software materials it would be helpful, though not absolutely
necessary, if you would provide us with a brief description, keywords,
official contact information (names, email/postal addresses, phone
numbers), and any associated mailing lists.

If there are any other materials which you feel would be appropriate
for the repository (e.g., refereed publications, tech reports, theses,
mailing list archives, programs, and other repositories), we would
appreciate hearing about them.

For your information, here is a precis of the CD-ROM:

  PTF for AI is a periodic collection of AI-related source code and
  documentation.  PTF for AI in no way modifies the legal restrictions
  on any package it includes.  The upcoming issue (1-1; Summer, 1993)
  will consist of an ISO-9660 CD-ROM bound into a ~100 page book.  It
  will contain ~600 MB of gzipped archives (2+ GB uncompressed and
  unpacked).  It will sell (list) for $60 US.

Publishing the repository on CD-ROM will make it available to a wider
audience, and provide more convenient access for sites and individuals
who want their own copy of the repository.

Please let us know if we may include your work.  Please inform us, as
well, if there is any reason (cryptography, etc.) why your work may not
be exportable from the US.

Best regards, 

Mark Kantrowitz
Archivist, CMU AI Repository
Editor, PTF for AI

mkant+repository@cs.cmu.edu
Tel: +1 412-268-2582
Fax: +1 412-681-5739


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