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I found some mailing lists that *may* be of interest to some extropians
here.  I have participated in only a few of them, so don't take any of
the entries below as recommendations!

There are a couple of recreational-reading lists, such as the SF list,
below.  However, I tried to keep the excerpts limited to serious,
productive topics.

Hope this is useful.

Russell Earl Whitaker                   whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor                       71750.2413@compuserve.com
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought         AMIX: RWHITAKER
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
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ftp.nisc.sri.com: netinfo/interest-groups                [9 September 1992]


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           18 doctor-who.guide                24 down-in-flames.txt
           18 galactica.guide                 86
 hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-net.txt
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            6 max-headroom.guide               6 nebulas.txt
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           22 outerlimits.guide                4 world-fantasy-awards.txt
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      NATURAL SYSTEMS                   Software Simulations
      Neurobiology                      Hardware
      Neuroscience                      Digital
      ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS                Analog
      Neural Networks                   Optical
      Algorithms                        Cellular Automatons

     Some key words which may stir up some further interest include:

      Hebbian Systems                            Widrow-Hoff Algorithm
      Perceptron                                 Threshold Logic
      Holography                                 Content Addressable Memories
      Lyapunov Stability Criterion               Navier-Stokes Equation
      Annealing                                  Spin Glasses
      Locally Couples Systems                    Globally Coupled Systems
      Dynamical Systems                          (Adaptive) Control Theory
      Back-Propagation                           Generalized Delta Rule
      Pattern Recognition                        Vision Systems
      Parallel Distributed Processing            Connectionism

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           Lab Descriptions                        Research Overviews
           Work Planned or in Progress             Half-Baked Ideas
           Conference Announcements                Conference Reports
           Bibliographies                          History Connectionism
           Puzzles and Unsolved Problems           Anecdotes, Jokes, and Poems
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     close ties to artificial intelligence, database management,
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      Information Management/Processing/Science/Technology
      AI Applications to IR             Hardware aids for IR
      Abstracting                       Hypertext and Hypermedia
      CD-ROM/CD-I/...                   Indexing/Classification
      Citations                         Information Display/Presentation
      Cognitive Psychology              Information Retrieval Applications
      Communications Networks           Information Theory
      Computational Linguistics         Knowledge Representation
      Computer Science                  Language Understanding
      Cybernetics                       Library Science
      Data Abstraction                  Message Handling
      Dictionary analysis               Natural Languages, NL Processing
      Document Representations          Optical disc technology and applications
      Electronic Books                  Pattern Recognition, Matching
      Evidential Reasoning              Probabilistic Techniques
      Expert Systems in IR              Speech Analysis
      Expert Systems use of IR          Statistical Techniques
      Full-Text Retrieval               Thesaurus construction
      Fuzzy Set Theory

     Contributions may be anything from tutorials to rampant speculation.
     In particular, the following are sought:

      Abstracts of Papers, Reports, Dissertations   Address Changes
      Bibliographies                                Conference Reports
      Descriptions of Projects/Laboratories         Half-Baked Ideas
      Humorous, Enlightening Anecdotes              Histories
      Questions                                     Requests
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      Work Planned or in Progress

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                         Mary Engle     <engle@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU>
                                        <meeur@UCCMVSA.BITNET>
                         Nancy Gusack   <ncgur@UCCMVSA.BITNET>


E-EUROPE on LISTSERV@NCSUVM.BITNET            [Last Update 28-January-1992]
     or LISTSERV@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU

     E-EUROPE is the new electronic communications network for doing
     business in Eastern Europe countries (including the countries of the
     former Soviet Union). Its purpose is to help these countries in their
     transition to market economies. It will link business persons in
     Western Europe-Asia-North America with those in Eastern Europe.

     E-EUROPE allows transmission of electronic mail and files worldwide
     (via Bitnet, Internet, Junet, Compuserve, MCI Mail, etc.).
     Subscription is free and open to anyone who can access a BITNET or
     INTERNET electronic address. While the E-EUROPE is located on a
     mainframe computer, anyone with a personal computer and modem may gain
     access.

     E-EUROPE provides information exchange via e-mail and also provides
     document/file transfers between E-EUROPE subscribers. A subscriber is
     anyone who has requested an E-EUROPE subscription by sending a message
     to the communications management software (called LISTSERV) located on
     the mainframe computer at North Carolina State University, USA. A
     subscriber also has the option of concealing their name and node
     address from public scrutiny.

     A. Present Activities of E-EUROPE

        1. E-mail Once a user subscribes to E-EUROPE, (s)he may send
           mail to the list for distribution to all its members. All
           members of the mailing list will receive a copy of each
           piece of mail sent to the list.  All of the mail that is
           received and redistributed by the list is cataloged and
           stored in a database that can be searched or retrieved by
           individuals with access to E-EUROPE.
           In order to prevent "rapid-fire" random e-mail
           transmissions, all messages are relayed to the E-EUROPE
           editor for a once-daily (maximum) batch mail release. In
           addition, each subscriber may disable the automatic
           E-EUROPE e-mail transmission to their site and download
           logfiles of each month's traffic.
        2. E-EUROPE Filelist Datafiles will be available for
           downloading to subscribers. The objective is to develop a
           clearinghouse of information on doing business with Eastern
           European countries.
        3. Potential/Future Activities

                    a) electronic business newsletter
                    b) electronic user directories
                    c) bibliographies of current business research
                    d) seeking interested parties for business activities
 (exports,
                       imports, or direct investment)
                    e) job bank

     B. Subscription and File Downloads:  To subscribe to E-EUROPE send
     E-mail to LISTSERV@NCSUVM or LISTSERV@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU with the body
     containing the command

     SUB E-EUROPE yourfirstname yourlastname

     To download a file, send E-mail to the LISTSERV using the GET command.
     E.g.  GET filename filetype E-EUROPE

     For example, GET E-EUROPE INTRO E-EUROPE

           Direct any questions to the list editor:
           James W. Reese, E-EUROPE Editor
           Associate Professor of Economics
           University of South Carolina, Spartanburg
           Spartanburg, SC 29303 USA
           Tel/Fax: 803-472-4527
           R505040@UNIVSCVM    (BITNET)
           or R505040@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU     (INTERNET)

ETHICS-L%MARIST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

     Discussions of ethics in computing usually generate more heat than
     light.  This list could do a lot toward generating more light if we do
     more than trade war stories and opinions of the "I'm right and you're
     NOT" variety.  Of course we can't get any work done without some war
     stories, since they furnish food for thought.  But we shouldn't stop
     there.  Given our experiences, we ought to be able to delineate the
     basic issues and hot areas in computer ethics.  Some current ones have
     to do with:

        - ownership of information (both data and program files)
        - what happens when systems programs fail? Is anyone
          responsible for damage done?  Or is the responsibility only
          for the necessary fix?
        - responsibility for program failures (Is the company
          responsible?  the programmer? the lead programmer? the
          project manager?) Who's responsible for the "fix"?
        - how much privacy is reasonable (there are all kinds of
          levels here; data bases, systems, LANs, networks, etc.)

     BitNet users can add themselves to the list by issuing the following
     command to LISTSERV@MARIST.BITNET:  SUBSCRIBE ETHICS-L your_full_name
     where your_full_name is your real name (not your userid).  BitNet
     users can unsubscribe with the command:  UNSUBSCRIBE ETHICS-L

     All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
     questions, etc., should be sent to the Moderators.

        Moderators: Jane Robinett <JROBINET%POLYTECH.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
                    Matthew J. Miner <MINER%POLYGRAF.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
                    Harry Williams   <HARRY%MARIST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

HISLAW-L on LISTSERV@ULKYVM                        [Last Updated June 1992]
     or LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU

     HISLAW-L is a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of
     information by students and scholars of the history of the Law
     (Feudal, Common, Canon).  HISLAW-L is ready to distribute newsletters
     from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for
     papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest.

     The list currently does not maintain a FTP directory nor is archiving
     available.  Hopefully, this will change in the near future.

     HISLAW-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and
     co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated.

     To subscribe send a message to LISTSERV@ULKYVM or
     LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU.  In BODY of the message state:  SUB
     HISLAW-L yourfirstname yourlastname

     adding your full name; LISTSERV will accept both BITNET and Internet
     addresses.  Postings should be made to HISLAW-L@ULKYVM.

     If you have any questions please contact the owner.

     Owner:  James A. Cocks BITNET:  JACOCK01@ULKYVM Internet:
     JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU

HIT%UFRJ.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Internet)
     HIT on LISTSERV@UFRJ (BITNET)

     The Highly Imaginative Technology - Science Fiction List

     Have you ever wondered how software can start paranoic?  Did your last
     SciFi book described a new kind of energy-plant?  Can networks create
     a new revolution in the world?  Is the NeXt the model for your next
     computer?

     HIT is a discussion list about Technology that can/can't be developed
     in the near/far future.  Based on Science Fiction and nowadays
     discoveries, we plan to discuss how to develop and which are the
     consequences of new and imaginative technology.

     Suggested topics are: Artificial Reality, Software Psychiatry, new
     developments in science, space stations, High Energy Physics, etc.
     Multi-disciplinary ideas are wellcome (as Software Psychiatry).

     To subscribe to HIT, send the following command to LISTSERV@UFRJ via
     mail text or interactive message (Internet Users, mail only, to the
     address LISTSERV%UFRJ.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU):

     SUBSCRIBE HIT Your_full_name.

     For example:  SUBSCRIBE HIT Joe Smith

     List owner:Geraldo Xexeo XEXEO@VXCERN.DECNET.CERN.CH

cryonics <kqb@whscad1.att.com>

     Purpose: Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby
     patients who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical
     abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the
     future.  This list is a forum for topics related to cryonics, which
     include biochemistry of memory, low temperature biology, legal status
     of cryonics and cryonically suspended people, nanotechnology and cell
     repair machines, philosophy of identity, mass media coverage of
     cryonics, new research and publications, conferences, and local
     cryonics group meetings.

     Contact: ...att!whscad1!kqb -or- kqb@whscad1.att.com (Kevin Q. Brown)

CYBSYS-L@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU
     CYBSYS-L%BINGVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
     CYBSYS-L@BINGVMB.BITNET

     The Cybernetics and Systems mailing list is an open list serving those
     working in or just interested in the interdisciplinary fields of
     Systems Science, Cybernetics, and related fields (e.g.  General
     Systems Theory, Complex Systems Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory,
     Computer Modeling and Simulation, Network Theory, Self-Organizing
     Systems Theory, Information Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory).  The list is
     coordinated by members of the Systems Science department of the Watson
     School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the International
     Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American Society for
     Cybernetics (ASC).

     To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@BINGVMB via mail
     or interactive message:  SUB CYBSYS-L your_full_name where
     "your_full_name" is your name.  For example:  SUB CYBSYS-L Joan Doe
     Non-BitNet users can subscribe by sending the text:  SUB CYBSYS-L
     your_full_name in the body of a message to
     LISTSERV@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU or
     LISTSERV%BINGVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.  To unsubscribe send the
     following command:  UNSUB CYBSYS-L

     Coordinator: Cliff Joslyn <vu0112@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU>

AIL-L@austin.onu.edu                         [Last Updated 12-October-1991]

     AIL-L is a list for the discussion of topics related to Artificial
     Intelligence and Law

     To subscribe to AIL-L you should send a message to the internet
     address listserv@austin.onu.edu The body of the message should consist
     of:

     subscribe AIL-L <your full name>

     for example:  subscribe ail-l Jane Doe

     List Manager: David R. Warner, Jr. <WARNER@AUSTIN.ONU.EDU>