🚀 go-pugleaf

ANNOUNCING SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS.APPS!
-----------------------------------

WELCOME to sci.virtual-worlds.apps from your Principal Co-moderators,
Bob Jacobson and Mark DeLoura.  In the next week we'll be putting the
final touches on this new newsgroup; in the meantime, we thought you'd
like to know more about it.

YOU MAY SUBSCRIBE TO SCI.V-W.APPS IMMEDIATELY BUT NO POSTING WILL GO
UP UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND (JAN. 9-10).  WE RECOMMEND YOU WAIT UNTIL THEN
TO SEND POSTS AND EMAIL.
 
We are pleased to invite you to a moderated discussion of virtual
worlds technology as it is being applied today and will be applied
tomorrow.
 
This newsgroup is different from many of those on the USENET.
sci.virtual-worlds.apps is designed as an online "magazine," with
regular columns by selected individuals as well as daily submissions
from the participants Regional Co-moderators will be keeping us up to
date on developments around the world and specialists in applied
technology will be posting regular commentaries on key trends and
events, as they see them.  In this way we hope to provide you with an
online experience that rewards the precious time you spend with us.
 
We'll be introducing our Regional Co-moderators over the next few
weeks.  Currently, we are finalizing arrangements with prospective
Regional Co-moderators from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia,
Canada, the United States, Latin America, Britain, Italy, Germany, and
Sweden.  If you are from somewhere else and would like to be a
Regional Co-moderator, please send email to us in this regard.  We
also welcome aspiring "domain specialists" who can report by
industrial sectors.  Your postings generally will be classified by
the field of industry/arts/education that they affect.
 
In the meantime, we have a couple of rules for this newsgroup that 
we'd like to share with you:
 
        1.  WE WILL BE POSTING ONLY MESSAGES ABOUT ACTUAL
        APPLICATIONS, EITHER EXISTING OR IN THE WORKS (TO THE
        BEST OF OUR INFORMATION).  Items about other issues
        (philosophy, media treatment of virtual worlds, and all
        manner of speculations about the future impact of this
        technology, in a general sense) should continue to be sent
        to sci.virtual-worlds.
 
        2.  When you post, please try to keep your messages tidy
        (lines of fewer than 70 characters in length) and relevant.
        If you're responding to another person's post, please be 
        sure that the prior post is identified somewhere in your
        message.  Also, although it's not required, do try to get 
        your spelling correct and keep messages short:  
        misspellings and messages over two pages in length will 
        greatly diminish your readers.  (This has been proven!)
 
        Professor Greg Newby of the University of Illinois will
continue his mailing list service for those of you who cannot access
the USENET.  If you have problems with the mailing list, please send a
message to Greg (gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu); we cannot help you in this
regard.
 
        Our host for sci.virtual-worlds.apps is the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.  (Mycket tack!)  If you want to send
a message directly via email, perhaps because your USENET access is
restricted, you may send it to
 
                           virtual@kth.se
 
You can also fax news to Bob Jacobson at +1-206-781-5254.  (Keep it
succinct -- short!)

        We will also have an administrative address that you can reach
by email for non-posting messages.  And, eventually, we will have an
applications FAQ to rival the one that exists for sci.virtual-worlds
AND an archive for publishable papers. (Mark is updating the s.v-w FAQ,
all the same.)
 
        Thanks for your patience in awaiting the arrival of
sci.virtual-worlds.apps.  It's our pleasure to bring this important
and timely newsgroup to you.  Please feel free to send us your
comments and suggestions as you think of them.  Like its forebearer,
sci.virtual-worlds, sci.virtual-worlds.apps is YOUR newsgroup and its
quality will be what YOU make it.  Again, welcome to sci.virtual-
worlds.apps!
 
Sincerely,
 
Bob Jacobson                    Mark DeLoura
Principal Co-Moderator          Principal Co-Moderator
bluefire@well.sf.ca.us          deloura@cs.unc.edu
(President,                     (Graduate Student, Computer Science,
WORLDESIGN, Inc., Seattle)      Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)