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I think the automated preprint servers which are popping up at various
sites are a wonderful idea but how does one find out about new
servers and what topics the current servers cover?

Is there a list of the servers, including topics covered, at an anonymous
ftp site somewhere?  If there is, may I suggest that a pointer
to this site be included in a README file on each of the preprint servers
so a person new to preprint servers will be able to find the list.

Another suggestion is to make preprint titles and abstracts 
available via a NetNews newsgroup as well as via e-mail.  
The subject for the news item 
could be the preprint server (i.e. astro-ph) as well as a truncated 
title of the paper.  I would personally prefer to receive this sort of 
information over NetNews although I am unsure how many others share this
opinion.  

Providing the option of receiving the titles and abstracts 
over NetNews may also save net bandwidth because only one copy of each
title and abstract will travel over the net as opposed for to one
for each subscriber (unless e-mail software is more clever than I think). 


Keith S. Cover
UBC, Vancouver, Canada
keith@msmri.med.ubc.ca