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This is a request for discussion of a new newsgroup, 
comp.infosystems.wais, to discuss the Wide Area Information
System ("WAIS"), a project from Thinking Machines.

There's current discussion going on in alt.wais, which
has been reasonably good quality and fairly widespread
interest.  Moving this discussion to a mainstream
comp.* newsgroup should make it easier for people to
figure out what it is about and to get access to the discussion.

WAIS is a client-server searching system based on the Z39.50
protocol.  There are about 150 WAIS servers on the Internet
right now, providing full-text search access to newsgroup
archives, standards documents, graphics, sound, and biologicial
science data.  New servers are coming on line weekly.  There
are WAIS clients for X Windows, NeXT, Macintosh, and MS Windows,
and gateways from WAIS to other distributed information systems
like World Wide Web and (hopefully soon) Gopher.

Discussion about the name should go to news.groups; 
talk about content should stay in the existing alt.wais group.

Thanks to Jim Ault for prodding me into doing this.

From emv@msen.com Sat Apr  4 03:31:07 1992
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From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
Subject: CFV:  comp.infosystems.wais
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Charter:

For discussion of WAIS, the Wide Area Information System, a networked
full text retreival system developed by Thinking Machines and Apple,
and which is currently being discussed in alt.wais.  

WAIS uses the Z39.50 query protocol to do full text searches between
clients and servers.  There are over 150 servers running on the Internet
today, and with WAIS you can find everything from recipes to RFCs.
It has proven to be particularly useful for providing access to large
text archives like newsgroup and mailing list archives.

WAIS discussion is currently going on in the newsgroup "alt.wais" and
the mailing lists "wais-discussion@quake.think.com" and
"wais-talk@quake.think.com".  The new newsgroup "comp.infosystems.wais"
will replace alt.wais if it has been created. 

More information about WAIS, including sources for the server and browser
software, can be found in
	think.com:/wais/
for anonymous FTP.  WAIS servers can also be queried with "gopher" 
(see alt.gopher), World Wide Web clients (see info.cern.ch:/pub/WWW/),
Hyperbole (see alt.hypertext et al), and a number of other systems
which build on top of these.  

Voting:

Voting will run 30 days as per the usual routine.  All votes must be
received by 22 April 1992, 23:59 GMT.

Yes votes should be sent to
	wais-yes@msen.com
No votes should be sent to
	wais-no@msen.com
Summaries will be posted during the voting period as is customary.

All questions regarding the administration of the vote should go to
me, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti), and not to any of the discussion
groups.  Any purely routine matters of vote administration get hashed
out in news.groups.

Thanks.

-- 
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
      MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 741 1120
"Not to panic.  Networking will eventually get to Michigan.  Remember
 the decades it took IBM to discover virtual memory."  Randy Bush

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From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
Subject: VOTE ACK:  comp.infosystems.wais
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This is an acknowlegement of votes received for comp.infosystems.wais,
a newsgroup to discuss the WAIS Wide Area Information System and other
Z39.50 query systems.

Real discussion is going on right now in alt.wais, if you want to
join in. 

--Ed

--
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
      MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 741 1120
   "Boolean RPN Searches Rule -- NOT!"  Simon Spero, _Wayne's WAIS_
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"(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@helios.tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
"Gregory R. Weiss" <grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
"Jim Carroll" <jcarroll@jacc.com>
"Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
"Joseph R. Massi" <jrmassi@access.digex.com>
"Michael Grice" <mgrice@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
"Peter Marshall CCS UWO" <peter@julian.uwo.ca>
"Spencer W. Thomas" <Spencer.W.Thomas@med.umich.edu>
"Steven J. Dovich" <dovich@Cadence.COM>
"Stewart M. Clamen" <clamen@CS.CMU.EDU>
"a.e.mossberg" <aem@paris-gw.cs.miami.edu>
"t. linn" <tlinn@julian.uwo.ca>
(Don Wells)dwells@qualcomm.com
(John Purlia)jpurlia@qualcomm.com
<ebm@almaden.ibm.com> (Eli Messinger)
<fullton@mdewey.ga.unc.edu>
Alessandro Berni <Alessandro.Berni@dist.unige.it>
Anders Ardo <anders@dit.lth.se>
Andreas Bjorklind <abj@ida.liu.se>
Andreas Haug <andreas@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de>
Andrew Draskoy <andrew@bransle.ucs.mun.ca>
Andy Malis <malis@BBN.COM>
Andy Rutter <andy@hoskyns.co.uk>
Anthony Baxter <anthony@nella9.cc.monash.edu.au>
Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
Barry Prescott <bp@cs.hull.ac.uk>
Bernfried Neukaeter <URZ20%DMSWWU1A.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cs.widener.edu>
Brewster Kahle <brewster@Think.COM>
C.R.Carter@bnr.co.uk
Chris TerMaat <andersen!ctermaat@uunet.UU.NET>
Dan Grim <grim@brahms.udel.edu>
Dan.Pritchett@EBay.Sun.COM (Dan Pritchett)
Danny Schwendener <macman@bernina.ethz.ch>
Danny Thomas <vthrc@cc.uq.oz.au>
David Bremner <bremner@cs.sfu.ca>
David Datta <datta@cs.uwp.edu>
David Gurr <davidgu@sco.COM>
David Sewell <dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Dennis Shiao <shiao@ans.net>
Dick Dramstad <rad@mbunix.mitre.org>
Don_Porter@MTS.RPI.EDU
Eamonn <ecoleman@Qualcomm.COM>
Ed Anselmo <anselmo-ed@CS.YALE.EDU>
Eelco van Asperen <evas@cs.few.eur.nl>
Frank Dunn <frank0@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Fred Heutte <phred@well.sf.ca.us>
Fred Jaggi <fred@bradley.bradley.edu>
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Gary Capell <gary@cs.su.OZ.AU>
George Michaelson <G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au>
Gess Shankar <gess%knex.Gwinnett.COM@mathcs.emory.edu>
Greg Isett <GWI@icf.hrb.com>
Harald Nordgard-Hansen <hhansen@kjemi.unit.no>
Harry Morris <morris@think.com>
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Ian Donaldson <i_donald@engineering-design-research-centre.ac.uk>
Icarus Sparry <I.Sparry@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
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Jay Elvove <jay@umd5.umd.edu>
Jeff Graves <jgraves@eng.auburn.edu>
Jeff Wasilko <jeff@digtype.rochester.ny.us>
Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
Jody Worthen <wortjody@ux1.isu.edu>
Joe Hanus/Microbial Germplasm Database <hanusj@cgrb.orst.edu>
John G Dobnick <jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
John Noerenberg <jwn2@qualcomm.com>
John Plate <plate@infotek.dk>
John Stanley <stanley@oce.orst.edu>
Jonathan Kochmer <nwnetman@u.washington.edu>
Jonny Goldman <jonathan@Think.COM>
Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
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Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen <kmk@cc.tut.fi>
Keith Decker <Decker@Ariel.CS.UMASS.EDU>
L L Campbell <campbell@bach.udel.edu>
Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Lars-Gunnar Olsson <Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Lou Rosenfeld <lou@csmil.umich.edu>
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Marianne Boudot <Marianne.Boudot@sophia.inria.fr>
Marilyn Martin <martin@netcom.ubc.ca>
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Markus Stumpf <stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Mathias Koerber <Mathias.Koerber@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
Matt Heffron <heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com>
Matthew Lewis <matthew@tdc.uva.nl>
Maurice Rich <M.Rich@itc.gu.edu.au>
Michael Gauges <bilbo@generics.ka.sub.org>
Michael Henry <michael@maria.cc.utas.edu.au>
Michelangelo Grigni <mic@cs.ubc.ca>
Mike Newman <PB5840@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
Mike Walker <mike@tab00.larc.nasa.gov>
Mowgli Assor <mowgli@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Paul Jones <pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu>
Paul Shields <shields@nexus.yorku.ca>
Peter.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
Petri Ojala <ojala@funet.fi>
Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr <fuhr@sally.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@eng.auburn.edu>
Richard Sikorski <sikorski@umigw.miami.edu>
Ross Paterson <rap@doc.imperial.ac.uk>
Rupert G. Goldie <rgg@aaii.oz.au>
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Scott Draves <spot@HOPELESS.MESS.CS.CMU.EDU>
Scott Draves <spot@MM.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
Scott Erickson <erickson@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Scott J. Kramer <sjk@aura.nbn.com> (())
Sheryl Rose <srose@cac.washington.edu>
Shmuel Browns <shmuli@shum.huji.ac.il>
Sridhar Venkataraman <sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu>
Stefan Esser <se@ikp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Steve Cisler <sac@apple.com>
Steve Feldon <sfeldon@ms.washington.edu>
Steve Hanson <hanson@pogo.fnal.gov>
Steve Petersen <stevep@csn.org>
Ted Zateslo <zateslo@geomag.gly.fsu.edu>
Todd.Kaufmann@ZEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
Tom Limoncelli <sdl!tom_limoncelli@uunet.UU.NET>
Tom.Lane@G.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Uwe Geuder <Uwe.Geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Vicki Hutchison <vicki@qualcomm.com>
Victor Scott Gregg <gregg@base.bellcore.com>
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jmcarli@srv.PacBell.COM (Jerry M. Carlin)
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john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
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jsuttor@world.std.com (Jeff Suttor)
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ken@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Ken Fasman)
kossakow@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Klaus-Peter Kossakowski)
laird@Think.COM (Laird Popkin)
lane@selway.umt.edu (Dick Lane)
lidl@sura.net
lloyd@janus.jhuapl.edu (Lloyd Taylor)
lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
mariposa!sawtelle@netcom.com (Don Sawtelle)
mark@drd.com (resident.alien)
mark@maui.Qualcomm.COM (Mark Erikson)
mcb@presto.ig.com (Michael C. Berch)
mehta@ucunix.san.uc.EDU
mgrmem@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
morris@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Ted Morris)
mpradhan@medicine.adelaide.edu.au (Malcolm Pradhan)
muir@CSI.COM (David Muir Sharnoff)
nishida@draken.src.ricoh.co.jp
nobi@supreme.coling.uni-freiburg.de (Norbert Broeker)
owens@cookiemonster.cc.buffalo.edu (Bill Owens)
pab@maths.bath.ac.uk
peterd@expresso.cc.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch)
peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson)
phil sutherland <philsuth@mycroft.DIALix.oz.au>
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pmurray@watson.lib.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
pom@s1.gov
prechelt@ira.uka.de
preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
rgregory@nextgen3.rmNUG.ORG (Robert Gregory)
rick@CRICK.SSCTR.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
rob@mentat.com (Rob Pawsner)
roger@prosun.first.gmd.de (Roger Holst)
rsw@cs.brown.edu (Bob Weiner)
rwhitby@austek.com.au (Rod Whitby)
s3583045@titan.ucc.umass.edu (John Greene)
schultz@halley.serc.3m.com (John C. Schultz)
science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
shan@techops.cray.com (Sharan Kalwani)
simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
simon@sun2.retix.com (Simon Michael)
slh@scire.hampshire.EDU
sseelema@sirius.UVic.CA (Sven Seelemann)
steff%milan@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma)
steffen@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (David Steffen)
tannerc@cu18.crl.aecl.ca (Chris Tanner)
taylogs@a.cs.okstate.edu
tedyoung@panix.com (Ted M. Young)
tero t mononen <tmo@sauna.cs.hut.fi>
tfiske@qualcomm.com
trier@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu (Stephen C. Trier)
trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
tscott@zeus.ocs.com (T. Scott)
twl@screamer.cs.brown.edu (Theodore W. Leung)
vanepp@sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp)
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wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu
wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
wolves!news@duke.cs.duke.edu (The Wolfe of the Den)
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Subject: RESULT:  comp.infosystems.wais passes 291: 4
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Here's the results for the comp.infosystems.wais newsgroup, which
passed by a healthy margin.  

WAIS is a distributed full-text search system based on the Z39.50
protocol.  There are on the order of 200 public servers scattered
around the world which provide a straightforward way to search through
mailing list and newsgroup archives, network directories and catalogs,
poetry, weather, back issues of the Communications of the ACM, and
a variety of other stuff.  

Discussion will migrate from alt.wais to the new group once it's created.

Thanks to all who voted.

--Ed

No votes (4):

Harald Nordgard-Hansen <hhansen@kjemi.unit.no>
Rodney Chen <rchen@warren.arc.nasa.gov>
djoyce@black.clarku.edu (Dave Joyce)
mehta@ucunix.san.uc.EDU

Yes votes (291):

"(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@helios.tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
"Aaron Dickey, still alive" <AXD7104@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU>
"Gregory R. Weiss" <grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
"Jim Carroll" <jcarroll@jacc.com>
"John Clement, EDUCOM K-12 Networking Project" <JRC@bitnic.educom.edu>
"Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
"Joseph R. Massi" <jrmassi@access.digex.com>
"Mark Colvson" <colvson@a1.relay.upenn.edu>
"Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
"Michael Grice" <mgrice@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
"Peter Marshall CCS UWO" <peter@julian.uwo.ca>
"Peter Scott/Manager,Small Systems/U Sask Lib/5920" <SCOTT@sklib.usask.ca>
"Scott Finet, CSU Law Library" <SCOTTF@INCA.LAW.CSUOHIO.EDU>
"Spencer W. Thomas" <Spencer.W.Thomas@med.umich.edu>
"Steven J. Dovich" <dovich@Cadence.COM>
"Stewart M. Clamen" <clamen@CS.CMU.EDU>
"a.e.mossberg" <aem@paris-gw.cs.miami.edu>
"t. linn" <tlinn@julian.uwo.ca>
(Don Wells)dwells@qualcomm.com
(John Purlia)jpurlia@qualcomm.com
<ebm@almaden.ibm.com> (Eli Messinger)
<fullton@mdewey.ga.unc.edu>
Alessandro Berni <Alessandro.Berni@dist.unige.it>
Anders Ardo <anders@dit.lth.se>
Andreas Bjorklind <abj@ida.liu.se>
Andreas Haug <andreas@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de>
Andrew Draskoy <andrew@bransle.ucs.mun.ca>
Andy Malis <malis@BBN.COM>
Andy Rutter <andy@hoskyns.co.uk>
Anthony Baxter <anthony@nella9.cc.monash.edu.au>
Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
BURNET@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Barry Prescott <bp@cs.hull.ac.uk>
Bernfried Neukaeter <URZ20%DMSWWU1A.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager <billy@sol.acs.unt.edu>
Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cs.widener.edu>
Brewster Kahle <brewster@Think.COM>
C.R.Carter@bnr.co.uk
Chris TerMaat <andersen!ctermaat@uunet.UU.NET>
Dan Grim <grim@brahms.udel.edu>
Dan.Pritchett@EBay.Sun.COM (Dan Pritchett)
Danny Schwendener <macman@bernina.ethz.ch>
Danny Thomas <vthrc@cc.uq.oz.au>
David Bremner <bremner@cs.sfu.ca>
David Datta <datta@cs.uwp.edu>
David Gurr <davidgu@sco.COM>
David Sewell <dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
David Williams <WILLIAMS@HUSC15.HARVARD.EDU>
Dennis Shiao <shiao@ans.net>
Dick Dramstad <rad@mbunix.mitre.org>
Don_Porter@MTS.RPI.EDU
Eamonn <ecoleman@Qualcomm.COM>
Ed Anselmo <anselmo-ed@CS.YALE.EDU>
Eelco van Asperen <evas@cs.few.eur.nl>
Frank Dunn <frank0@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Fred Heutte <phred@well.sf.ca.us>
Fred Jaggi <fred@bradley.bradley.edu>
GONTER%AWIWUW11.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Gerhard Gonter)
Gary Capell <gary@cs.su.OZ.AU>
George Michaelson <G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au>
George Rickerson <GEORGE@UMVMA.UMSYSTEM.EDU>
Gess Shankar <gess%knex.Gwinnett.COM@mathcs.emory.edu>
Greg Isett <GWI@icf.hrb.com>
Harry Morris <morris@think.com>
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Hooper_TA@cc.curtin.edu.au
Ian Donaldson <i_donald@engineering-design-research-centre.ac.uk>
Icarus Sparry <I.Sparry@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
JML4@phx.cam.ac.uk
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Subject: RFD:  comp.infosystems.wais
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This is a request for discussion of a new newsgroup, 
comp.infosystems.wais, to discuss the Wide Area Information
System ("WAIS"), a project from Thinking Machines.

There's current discussion going on in alt.wais, which
has been reasonably good quality and fairly widespread
interest.  Moving this discussion to a mainstream
comp.* newsgroup should make it easier for people to
figure out what it is about and to get access to the discussion.

WAIS is a client-server searching system based on the Z39.50
protocol.  There are about 150 WAIS servers on the Internet
right now, providing full-text search access to newsgroup
archives, standards documents, graphics, sound, and biologicial
science data.  New servers are coming on line weekly.  There
are WAIS clients for X Windows, NeXT, Macintosh, and MS Windows,
and gateways from WAIS to other distributed information systems
like World Wide Web and (hopefully soon) Gopher.

Discussion about the name should go to news.groups; 
talk about content should stay in the existing alt.wais group.

Thanks to Jim Ault for prodding me into doing this.