From - Wed Oct 01 07:18:04 1997 Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!agate!news.ucsc.edu!osr From: bos@serpentine.com (Bryan O'Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.os.research,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.os.research: Welcome to comp.os.research [l/m 6 Jan 1996] Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Oct 1997 07:55:51 GMT Organization: Polymorphous Thaumaturgy Lines: 40 Approved: comp-os-research@cse.ucsc.edu, news-answers-request@mit.edu Message-ID: <60svm7$8gm@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: os-faq@cse.ucsc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu Summary: a first introduction to the operating systems research group Originator: osr@cse.ucsc.edu Xref: news.mitre.org comp.os.research:6894 comp.answers:27734 news.answers:111060 Archive-name: os-research/welcome Version: $Revision: 1.5 $ Last-Modified: Sat Jan 6 18:16:47 1996 This periodic posting serves as an introduction to newsgroup comp.os.research. A set of companion postings, the Frequently Answered Questions for comp.os.research, summarises some of the past discussions in the group. Comp.os.research is a moderated Usenet newsgroup created to foster the discussion of and exchange of information on topics in the field of operating systems research. The moderator is Darrell Long of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The maintainer of the FAQ is Bryan O'Sullivan . As far as moderation policy is concerned, the following two principles are applied to each article submitted for posting: is it interesting? is it related to research? Job announcements will be posted if they are related to operating systems research; blatantly commercial postings are not acceptable. Calls for papers for most conferences and journals related to OS research will be posted. This is fairly broadly interpreted, since OS research is a large field. Smart alec comments are generally filed unceremoniously in /dev/null. Finally, discussions are cut off when the signal-to-noise ratio falls below a certain (fairly subjective) level. Please consider setting the Followup-To: line whenever discussion drifts away from operating systems research. This posting, like much of Usenet, is maintained on a purely volunteer basis. It is subject to comment and improvement by sending email to . Please note that there is a discaimer and copyright notice at the end of Part 2 of the FAQ.