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As the incoming editor of the reinvented Hot Off The Tree newsletter, I 
am proposing to provide a USENET gateway for the e-mail edition.  The 
proposed USENET group is:

  bit.magazines.computing

This was suggested by a subscriber as being the most descriptive name.  
And the bit.magazines.* will help to establish gateways for other 
electronic magazines.  Please note that we believe that the gating is 
necessary due to expected heavy traffic and demand for e-mail 
subscriptions.  The mission of the reinvented HOTT is to offer the first 
mass distribution electronic serial on the Information Superhighway.  But 
unless we have a gated group, we'll wind up flooding the Internet with 
e-mail subscriptions.

We have been subscribed to for redistribution by BBSes in Australia, New 
Zealand, Estonia, Italy, Israel, Canada, and several other countries.  
HOTT also plans to be the first truly global e-serial.

A fairly extensive PR campaign is being conducted to support HOTT.  
Releases have been sent to over 50 trade editors, and will be followed up as 
soon as the gated name is approved by two other key releases to:

1) The Washington correspondents and columnists covering the Information 
Superhighway from the national dailies; major wires; Knight-Ridder, 
Gannett, Newhouse, Scripps-Howard, Hearst, Cox, and Copley newspaper 
groups; over 25 regional newspaper bureaus; all 3 newsweeklies; ABC, CBS, 
NBC, and CNN; and the largest circulation dailies and television stations 
representing the top 12 ADI markets.

2) Over 400 trade editors & columnists, about 50 consumer electronics 
magazines, and the computer editors & columnists for the Top 100 
circulation dailies in the U.S.

#1 will be done to support coverage of HOTT in the national media;
#2 will be done to solicit subscriptions.

PLEASE HELP US LAUNCH THE FIRST MASS DISTRIBUTION & GLOBAL ELECTRONIC 
MAGAZINE ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.  Thank you very much.

Information on HOTT follows.
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THIS MESSAGE WAS TRANSMITTED TO NON-U.S. ACADEMIC NETWORKS & BBSes

Dear Colleague,

  I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to post -- FREE OF
CHARGE -- our reinvented electronic newsletter.  We are attempting to
provide the first, truly global electronic serial; hence, we need
support from Internet access providers that are ** not ** based in North
America.  And we are especially interested in reaching academic and
research networks and BBS.

  Also, I need your help in reaching the Internet- and FidoNet-based
bulletin boards in your country/region.  Please send me a listing of
Internet and FidoNet BBS e-mail addresses in your country/region.

  And PLEASE post the following message to ALL computer & communications
bulletin boards on your system ... or to your entire system, if possible!
Thank you very much.  And ...


  H A P P Y   N E W   Y E A R  !!!


* * *  P R E S S   R E L E A S E  * * *  P R E S S   R E L E A S E  * * *

B R I E F   R E L E A S E

FREE NEWSLETTER

Free, electronic newsletter features article summaries on new generation
computer and communications technologies from over 100 trade magazines
and research journals; key U.S. & international daily newspapers, news
weeklies, and business magazines; and, over 100 Internet mailing lists &
USENET groups.  Each monthly issue includes listings of forthcoming &
recently published technical books and forthcoming shows & conferences. 
Bonus: Exclusive interviews with technology pioneers.  E-mail
subscription requests to: listserv@ucsd.edu  (Leave the "Subject" line
blank.)  In the body of the message, type: SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST (do not
include first or last names)


* * *  P R E S S   R E L E A S E  * * *  P R E S S   R E L E A S E  * * *

G E N E R A L   R E L E A S E

HOTT -- Hot Off The Tree -- is a FREE monthly electronic newsletter 
featuring the latest advances in computer, communications, and
electronics technologies.  Each issue provides article summaries on
new & emerging technologies, including VR (virtual reality), neural
networks, PDAs (personal digital assistants), GUIs (graphical user
interfaces), intelligent agents, ubiquitous computing, genetic &
evolutionary programming, wireless networks, smart cards, video phones,
set-top boxes, nanotechnology, and massively parallel processing.  

Summaries are provided from the following sources:

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, 
  San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Financial Times (London) ...
 
Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report ...

Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist (London), Nikkei Weekly 
  (Tokyo), Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) ...

over 50 trade magazines, including Computerworld, InfoWorld, Datamation,
  Computer Retail Week, Dr. Dobb's Journal, LAN Times, Communications
  Week, PC World, New Media, VAR Business, Midrange Systems, Byte ...

over 50 research journals, including ** ALL ** publications of the IEEE
  Computer and Communications Societies, plus technical journals
  published by AT&T, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu, Sharp, NTT, Siemens,
  Philips, GEC ...

over 100 Internet mailing lists & USENET discussion groups ...

plus ...

* listings of forthcoming & recently published technical books;
  
* listings of forthcoming trade shows & technical conferences; and,

* company advertorials, including CEO perspectives, tips & techniques,
  and new product announcements

BONUS:

Exclusive interviews with technology pioneers ... the next two issues
feature interviews with Mark Weiser (head of Xerox PARC's Computer
Science Lab) on ubiquitous computing, and Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg
on the information society


TO REQUEST A FREE SUBSCRIPTION, CAREFULLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

Send subscription requests to:
  listserv@ucsd.edu

Leave the "Subject" line blank

In the body of the message input:
  SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST

If at any time you choose to cancel your subscription input:
  UNSUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST

Note: Do *not* include first or last names following 
      "SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST"  or  "UNSUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST"

The HOTT mailing list is automatically maintained by a computer located
at the University of California at San Diego.  The system automatically
responds to the sender's return path.  Hence, it is necessary to send
subscription requests and cancellations directly to the listserv at UCSD.
(I cannot make modifications to the list ... nor do I have access to the
list.)  For your privacy, please note that the list will not be rented. 
If you have problems and require human intervention, contact:
  hott@ucsd.edu

The next issue of the reinvented HOTT e-newsletter is scheduled for
transmission by mid-February.

Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues, and post to
your favorite bulletin boards.  Our objective is to disseminate the
highest quality and largest circulation compunications (computer &
communications) industry newsletter.

I look forward to serving you as HOTT's new editor.  Thank you.
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE EDITOR


H O T T   U P D A T E  --  31 December 1993

I've received a steady stream of superb suggestions over the past week
regarding the WWW and cross-posting.  In response, I plan to launch a
WWW/Postscript version of HOTT by Fall.  Also, I'll be attempting to
launch a gated version to a USENET group.  We'll probably call it: 
  bit.listserv.hott
I'm targeting Summer for the USENET group.  Details will be provided in
the e-mail version of HOTT as they develop.

For the protection of your privacy, the HOTT mailing list will NEVER be
rented.  However, it has become necessary to seek corporate sponsors to
help defray costs for subscriptions, reprint permissions, and related
expenses (e.g., a new host site -- we're pushing UCSD to its limits!).
But we can't get sponsors unless we have at least 100,000+ subscribers.

PLEASE KEEP YOUR E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS ... 
  WE REALLY NEED HARD NUMBERS TO ATTRACT SPONSORS.  

Once we have hard numbers and launch a USENET group, we'll be
recommending that our Internet subscribers switch to the moderated (and
closed) USENET group. Converting most of our Internet subscribers to a
USENET will pose much less of a strain on our host system, especially
when we exceed 250,000 subscribers.  Besides, it's actually easier to
read a newsletter on a newsreader than it is by e-mail, but it's a lot
harder for me to get accurate readership numbers.  I'll keep you posted
(no pun intended).

NEW FEATURES

(Consider the following to be a ** very ** preliminary announcement of
new features I plan to add to HOTT ... but I can't until we get 
sponsors.)

There are several features that I plan to add over the next year.  
First, I want to expand trade magazine coverage to over 200 sources,
including at least 30 British trade publications.  Also, I want to
provide summaries of U.S. and U.K. national news programs, i.e., ABC,
CBS, NBC, and BBC.  I'd like to transmit selected full-text features
from The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The (London) Financial
Times, and a Japanese English-language daily (plus article summaries
from a few other Japanese English-language dailies; there are a half-
dozen English-language dailies published in Japan).  Eventually, I'd 
like to add The New York Times (if I can negotiate a reasonable rate),
The San Jose Mercury News, and The Boston Globe.  And maybe even
Newsbytes and the Japanese English-language equivalent to Newsbytes.  
I'm currently negotiating with The Los Angeles Times Syndicate for
Michael Schrage's "Innovation" column (Michael is willing to comp HOTT
on an experimental basis) and I'd like to add a few other syndicated
columns.  And I have several other surprises!

Wish us luck!

BTW, information on HOTT archives will be provided in the first issue.
 
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