/////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\///\\\/\ \ / \ Welcome to the SGML Newswire! \ / / \ To subscribe, send email to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com \ \ with body of message SUBSCRIBE 'your emailaddress' / / To unsubscribe, send message 'unsubscribe' \ \ To receive SGML FAQ, send message 'send FAQ' / / \ \ To receive a current table of contents, and / / instructions for ordering back issues, \ \ specify 'send toc' in the body of your / / message. Please also pass along info \ \ to interested colleagues. / / \ ////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\///\\\\/// HYPERMEDIA THEORY MAILING LIST: =============================== This is from Art Pollard, who originally posted this information in the comp.text.sgml newsgroup: -------------------------------------------------------------------- As promised, here is the information describing the Hyper-Theory mailing list. I hope that this mailing list will serve to provide a userful forum for discussion on hypermedia theory and its applications. -Art HYPERMEDIA THEORY MAILING LIST List Maintainer: Art Pollard 1) PURPOSE FOR THIS MAILING LIST 2) FOCUS OF THE TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION 3) THE WWW AND THE HYPER-THEORY MAILING LIST 4) PSEUDO - MODERATION POLICY 5) HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE HYPER-THEORY MAILING LIST 6) WHO IS THE MAILING LIST OWNER AND HOW TO CONTACT HIM 1) PURPOSE FOR THIS MAILING LIST The hyper-theory mailing list was created to serve as a medium for discussion on hypermedia theory. The newsgroup alt.hypertext was once devoted to hypermedia theory and applications. However, with the growth of the World Wide Web, and the rapid growth of the internet, the new users have unabashedly taken over alt.hypertext and have tried to make it a forum for discussion of World Wide Web issues. Furthermore, it does not seem reasonable to think that this will be resolved anytime soon. Because of these reasons and to help researchers, developers, and users pursue their interests in the field of hypermedia theory and implementation details, this list was created to serve as a high signal to noise ratio resource. It is hoped that by providing a forum for discussion of hypermedia theory and implementation issues, the field of hypermedia will be developed and will move forward to provide a much more robust system than what is currently in use today. 2) FOCUS OF THE TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION FOR THIS MAILING LIST Some suggested topics for discussion for this mailing list are as follows: * Hypermedia Theory * Hypermedia Models * Hypermedia Implementation Details * Useful Functionality Found in Various Hypermedia Systems * General Hypertext Discussions. This mailing list is designed to be a high signal to noise mailing list. This means that those that are on this mailing list are looking for information on specific topics and are not interested in everything under the sun. Thus, there are topics of discussion which are not looked upon as being the most desirable in this mailing list. These are as follows: * How do I do XXX in system YYY? * Does anybody have a copy of YYY that they would sell me? * Hey, come check out my home page! * Netscape does XXX but, I don't know how. How do I ... * I want to set up a web server what do I do? * I think you get the idea... 3) THE WWW AND THE HYPER-THEORY MAILING LIST The WWW is not synonymous with "Hypertext". This means that there are many different hypermedia systems in existence in addition to the WWW. Part of the purpose of this mailing list is to distance the discussions on this list from those specific to the World Wide Web. (There are already plenty of newsgroups devoted to Web related discussions.) However, discussions which discuss the Web specifically as related to Hypermedia are welcomed and even desired. This also holds true for other hypermedia systems that are in use. (But, let us not get caught in the rut of discussing only one implementation primarily.) 4) PSEUDO-MODERATION POLICY Art Pollard (this mailing list owner) is also the moderator for the newsgroup Comp.Theory.Info-Retrieval. This mailing list is currently unmoderated and if all goes well, this list will remain unmoderated. However, the list owner reserves the right to move the mailing list into a moderated format if it becomes evident that there are problems keeping the discussion topics within the guidelines of this mailing list. Because this list is delivered directly to people's personal e-mail addresses, the list owner reserves the right to unsubscribe anyone who posts commercial advertisements to the list. (If the abuse is not too flagerent [sic], there will usually be a warning the first time this occurs.) This is done to protect the mailing lists users from spurious advertisements and unwanted solicitations. 5) HOW TO SUBSCRIBE AND UNSUBSCRIBE TO THE HYPER-THEORY MAILING LIST TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe to the hyper-theory mailing list, all you need to do is to send an e-mail message containing: subscribe hyper-theory in the BODY of the message. (Note: You will not be subscribed unless it is in the BODY of the message. You can put this message in the subject line of the message for your own purposes however, it will not subscribe you unless it appears in the BODY of the message.) The e-mail needs to be mailed to the following address: majordomo@math.byu.edu After subscribing, you will receive this description of the list as well as additional instructions for unsubscribing. TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe to the hyper-theory mailing list, the procedure is basically the same as that used to subscribe. An e-mail message containing the following message: unsubscribe hyper-theory in the BODY of the message must be sent to the following address: majordomo@math.byu.edu 6) WHO IS THE MAILING LIST OWNER AND HOW TO CONTACT HIM The mailing list owner is Art Pollard. Art works for Lextek International a development and consulting company which specializes in natural language processing, and both large and small scale hypermedia and information retrieval systems. Art may be contacted via e-mail at any one of the following addresses: PollardA@king.1source.com PollardA@Hawaii.edu PollardA@Xray.byu.edu or via snail mail/phone/fax at: Lextek International 2255 N. 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