CONNECTIONISTS Bi-Monthly reminder

Thu Aug 17 16:00:11 EDT 2000

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This is an automatically posted bi-monthly reminder about how the
CONNECTIONISTS list works and how to access various online resources.

CONNECTIONISTS is a moderated forum for enlightened technical
discussions and professional announcements.  It is not a random
free-for-all like comp.ai.neural-nets.  The following posting
guidelines are designed to reduce the amount of irrelevant messages
sent to the list.  Before you post, please remember that this list is
distributed to thousands of busy people who don't want their time
wasted on trivia.  Also, some subscribers pay cash for each kbyte;
they shouldn't be forced to pay for junk mail.

-- Dave Touretzky & Mark C. Fuhs

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                       What to post to CONNECTIONISTS
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- The list is primarily intended to support the discussion of technical
issues relating to neural computation.

- We encourage people to post the abstracts of their latest papers and
tech reports, provided that the report itself is available on-line
(please give the URL) or the author is accepting requests for
hardcopies.

- Conferences and workshops should be announced on this list at most
twice: once to send out a call for papers, and once to remind
non-authors about the registration deadline.  A flood of repetitive
announcements about the same conference is not welcome here.  For
major neural net conferences (e.g., NIPS, IJCNN, INNS) we'll allow a
second call for papers close (but not unreasonably close) to the
deadline.

-  Announcements of job openings related to neural computation.

-  Announcements of new books related to neural computation.

- Requests for ADDITIONAL references.  This has been a particularly
sensitive subject.  Please try to demonstrate that you have already
pursued the quick, obvious routes to finding the information you
desire.  You should also give people something back in return for
bothering them.  The easiest way to do both these things is to FIRST
do the library work to find the basic references, then POST these as
part of your query.  Here's an example:

     WRONG WAY: "Can someone please mail me all references to cascade
     correlation?"

     RIGHT WAY: Enclosed is a bibliography I've compiled of papers
     referencing cascade correlation.  If you are aware of additional
     papers not listed here, please send me the citations and I'll
     include them in the next version.

			What NOT to post to CONNECTIONISTS:
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 * Requests for free software or databases.  Try comp.ai.neural-nets.

 * Requests for reprints of papers, or for persons' email addresses.

 * Announcements of conferences not directly relevant to this list.
   Example: generic AI or computer vision conferences have their own
   newsgroups and mailing lists, and won't be advertised here.

 * Job postings, unless the posting makes specific mention of neural
   nets or a closely related topic (e.g., computational neuroscience.)

 * Postings not properly formatted.  80 columns is the maximum line
   width.  Do not post HTML, LaTeX, Microsoft Word, or Postscript files.
   Do not include any attachments.

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			The CONNECTIONISTS Archive:
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All e-mail messages sent to "Connectionists at cs.cmu.edu" starting 27-Feb-88 are
available for public perusal.  

A separate file exists for each month.  The files' names are:

			 arch.yymm

where yymm stand for the obvious thing.  Thus the earliest available data are
in the file:
			 arch.8802

Files ending with .Z are compressed using the standard unix compress
program. The files ending with .gz are compressed using the GNU gzip
program. In the event that you do not already have gzip, it is available via
ftp from "prep.ai.mit.edu" in the "/pub/gnu" directory. To browse through
these files (as well as through other files, see below) you must FTP them to
your local machine.

The file "current" in the same directory contains the archives for the
current month.

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 	      How to Access Files from the CONNECTIONISTS Archive
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There are two ways to access the CONNECTIONISTS archive:

1. Using your World Wide Web browser. Enter the following location:

        http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/connect/connect-archives/

2. Using an FTP client.

   a) Open an FTP connection to host FTP.CS.CMU.EDU

   b) Login as user anonymous with password your username.

   c) 'cd' directly to the following directory:
	/afs/cs/project/connect/connect-archives

      The archive directory is the ONLY one you can access. You can't even
      find out whether any other directories exist.  If you are using the
      'cd' command you must cd DIRECTLY into this directory.

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