🚀 go-pugleaf

A new mailing list for technical discussion about the Z39.50-92
information project (zip, for the moment) which was announced to
several mailing lists and newsgroups by Jim Fullton on Dec. 23,
1992
has been set up at:

  zip@kudzu.concert.net

To subscribe to the list, send mail to:

  zip-request@kudzu.concert.net

with the text:

  subscribe zip

This is a simple mail reflector, not a listserv mechanism. You
will
receive notification of subscription when your address has been
added
to the mailing list.

Archives can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from
kudzu.concert.net:

  /pub/zip/zipmail*

A brief excerpt from the original Z39.50-92 information
project announcement follows:

In article <1992Dec23.203300.26379@rock.concert.net> Jim
Fullton,
fullton@jazz.concert.net writes:
>As some of you may know, the U.S. National Science Foundation
has funded
>the creation of the Clearinghouse for Networked Information
Discovery
>and Retrieval. One of the responsibilities of CNIDR is to
promote the
>use and development of tools for discovering and using
networked
>information. We have been specifically charged with the task of
>providing an evolutionary path for the public-domain version
of WAIS,
>the Wide Area Information Server. Therefore, we have been
paying close
>attention to the remarks and "wish lists" provided by the
network
>community, and are well into a project to try to fulfill those
wishes.
>
>We are in the early beta test stages of a new generation of
WAIS-like
>systems that build on the heritage of WAIS as released by
Thinking
>Machines, but with quite a bit of extensibility and new
features.
>Specifically, and with the help of many others, we're creating
a
>Z39.50-92 (soon to be 93) server with full backwards
compatibility with
>current WAIS clients and indexes, features such as boolean
search,
>formatted searching on fielded text information, thesaurus
based synonym
>substitution, stemming, and a search engine integration
toolkit.

The entire text of the announcement can be retrieved via
anonymous ftp
from kudzu.concert.net:

  /pub/zip/zip.announce