🚀 go-pugleaf

Following my recent questions about the posting of papers to the net,
somebody suggested that the appropriate newsgroup already existed,
namely comp.doc.  As an experiment, I've posted both the papers I recently
advertised in this newsgroup to comp.doc.  If this is successful (that is,
if people receive them and I don't get flamed too badly), I will continue
and I would strongly encourage others to do likewise.  The sense
of the remarks I received seemed to indicate that the proper protocol
would be to post a short announcement, maybe even an abstract, in
the newsgroup of interest (say this one), and the complete paper in
comp.doc.

Let me reiterate that I view this as sort of the literary equivalent of
beta testing; this isn't publication really, but rather a way of getting
ideas quickly disseminated and feedback that can (if desired) be used in a 
later, more polished version of the paper submitted to a ``real'' journal.

--tim budd  (budd@cs.orst.edu)