From [email protected] Sat Apr 4 03:11:54 1992 Xref: rpi news.announce.newgroups:1837 news.groups:39478 alt.wais:476 comp.databases:13999 bionet.general:2287 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.wais,comp.databases,bionet.general Path: rpi!bounce-back From: Edward VielmettiSubject: RFD: comp.infosystems.wais Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 23:57:58 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 23 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 [email protected] Sat Apr 4 03:31:07 1992 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.wais,comp.theory.info-retrieval,comp.archives.admin,alt.gopher From: Edward Vielmetti Subject: CFV: comp.infosystems.wais Followup-To: poster Organization: UUNET Communications Services Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 17:36:25 GMT 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 "[email protected]" and "[email protected]". 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 [email protected] No votes should be sent to [email protected] Summaries will be posted during the voting period as is customary. All questions regarding the administration of the vote should go to me, [email protected] (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. [email protected] 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 From [email protected] Sun Apr 19 21:38:16 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2201 news.groups:48457 alt.wais:614 comp.databases:16689 bionet.general:3184 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.wais,comp.databases,bionet.general Path: uunet!uunet!bounce-back From: Edward Vielmetti Subject: VOTE ACK: comp.infosystems.wais Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: post Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: UUNET Communications Services Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:25:15 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 256 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. [email protected] MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120 "Boolean RPN Searches Rule -- NOT!" Simon Spero, _Wayne's WAIS_ -- "(Arnold Bloemer)" "Gregory R. Weiss" "Jim Carroll" "Jonathan I. Kamens" "Joseph R. Massi" "Michael Grice" "Peter Marshall CCS UWO" "Spencer W. Thomas" "Steven J. Dovich" "Stewart M. Clamen" "a.e.mossberg" "t. linn" (Don Wells)[email protected] (John Purlia)[email protected] (Eli Messinger) Alessandro Berni Anders Ardo Andreas Bjorklind Andreas Haug Andrew Draskoy Andy Malis Andy Rutter Anthony Baxter Axel Belinfante Barry Prescott Bernfried Neukaeter Brendan Kehoe Brewster Kahle [email protected] Chris TerMaat Dan Grim [email protected] (Dan Pritchett) Danny Schwendener Danny Thomas David Bremner David Datta David Gurr David Sewell Dennis Shiao Dick Dramstad [email protected] Eamonn Ed Anselmo Eelco van Asperen Frank Dunn Fred Heutte Fred Jaggi GONTER%[email protected] (Gerhard Gonter) Gary Capell George Michaelson Gess Shankar Greg Isett Harald Nordgard-Hansen Harry Morris [email protected] [email protected] Ian Donaldson Icarus Sparry [email protected] James Ault Jay Elvove Jeff Graves Jeff Wasilko Joachim Schrod Jody Worthen Joe Hanus/Microbial Germplasm Database John G Dobnick John Noerenberg John Plate John Stanley Jonathan Kochmer Jonny Goldman Jyrki Kuoppala [email protected] Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen Keith Decker L L Campbell Larry Masinter Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lou Rosenfeld Luc Ottavj [email protected] (Martin Kooij) Marianne Boudot Marilyn Martin [email protected] Markus Stumpf Mathias Koerber Matt Heffron Matthew Lewis Maurice Rich Michael Gauges Michael Henry Michelangelo Grigni Mike Newman Mike Walker Mowgli Assor Paul Jones Paul Shields [email protected] Petri Ojala Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr Richard Elling Richard Sikorski Ross Paterson Rupert G. Goldie [email protected] (Stan van de Burgt) Scott Draves Scott Draves Scott Erickson Scott J. Kramer (()) Sheryl Rose Shmuel Browns Sridhar Venkataraman Stefan Esser Steve Cisler Steve Feldon Steve Hanson Steve Petersen Ted Zateslo [email protected] Tom Limoncelli [email protected] Uwe Geuder Vicki Hutchison Victor Scott Gregg [email protected] [email protected] (Allan E Johannesen) [email protected] (Jean-Marc Alliot) [email protected] (Jeff Beckley) [email protected] (David Blackman) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Brian Smithson) [email protected] (Bryan Thompson) [email protected] [email protected] (richard) [email protected] (Curt Canada) [email protected] (Chris Buckley) [email protected] (Jeff Kellem) [email protected] (Ed Costello) [email protected] [email protected] (Carl Witty) [email protected] (David Lamb) [email protected] (Dave Sisson) [email protected] (David Hoekman) [email protected] (Jim Davis) [email protected] [email protected] (Dave Joyce) [email protected] (Fred Douglis) [email protected] (David Friedlander) [email protected] (Drew Burton) [email protected] [email protected] (Edward Bertsch) [email protected] (James P. Goltz) [email protected] (Gary O'Connell) [email protected] (Paul Holbrook) [email protected] (Edward J. Huff) [email protected] (Janne Himanka) [email protected] (Jeff Gehlhaar) [email protected] (Jurgen Botz) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (John Ladwig) [email protected] (James L. Beug) [email protected] (Jerry M. Carlin) [email protected] (Joe Smith) [email protected] (John Franks) [email protected] (John Heidemann) [email protected] (Jordan Hayes) [email protected] (Jeff Suttor) [email protected] (Joseph R. Justice) [email protected] (Wolfram Kahl) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Ken Fasman) [email protected] (Klaus-Peter Kossakowski) [email protected] (Laird Popkin) [email protected] (Dick Lane) [email protected] [email protected] (Lloyd Taylor) [email protected] (Larry W. Virden, x2487) [email protected] (Don Sawtelle) [email protected] (resident.alien) [email protected] (Mark Erikson) [email protected] (Michael C. Berch) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Ted Morris) [email protected] (Malcolm Pradhan) [email protected] (David Muir Sharnoff) [email protected] [email protected] (Norbert Broeker) [email protected] (Bill Owens) [email protected] [email protected] (Peter Deutsch) [email protected] (Bob Peterson) phil sutherland [email protected] [email protected] (Pierre Uszynski) [email protected] (Peter Murray) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Scott E. Preece) [email protected] (Robert Gregory) [email protected] (Richard H. Miller) [email protected] (Rob Pawsner) [email protected] (Roger Holst) [email protected] (Bob Weiner) [email protected] (Rod Whitby) [email protected] (John Greene) [email protected] (John C. Schultz) [email protected] (Mark Zimmermann) [email protected] (Sharan Kalwani) [email protected] (Simon Leinen) [email protected] (Simon Michael) [email protected] [email protected] (Sven Seelemann) steff%[email protected] (Stefan Momma) [email protected] (David Steffen) [email protected] (Chris Tanner) [email protected] [email protected] (Ted M. Young) tero t mononen [email protected] [email protected] (Stephen C. Trier) [email protected] (Bob Snyder) [email protected] (T. Scott) [email protected] (Theodore W. Leung) [email protected] (Peter Van Epp) [email protected] (VLADIMIR SLAMECKA) [email protected] [email protected] (Will Estes) widener!anagld.analytics.com!rcsmith (Ray Smith) widener!isasun-1.edm.isac.ca!ken widener!pnet51.orb.mn.org!ceg widener!uunet.UU.NET!leahi!bachesta (Jim Bachesta) widener!uunet.UU.NET!polari!january (Jamie Pehling) [email protected] [email protected] (Willem Jan Withagen) [email protected] (The Wolfe of the Den) [email protected] From [email protected] Tue Apr 28 12:12:41 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2278 news.groups:49946 alt.wais:688 alt.gopher:420 comp.databases:16972 comp.text:9342 comp.theory.info-retrieval:96 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.wais,alt.gopher,comp.databases,comp.text,comp.theory.info-retrieval Path: uunet!bounce-back From: Edward Vielmetti Subject: RESULT: comp.infosystems.wais passes 291: 4 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: MSEN Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 15:41:15 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 316 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 Rodney Chen [email protected] (Dave Joyce) [email protected] Yes votes (291): "(Arnold Bloemer)" "Aaron Dickey, still alive" "Gregory R. Weiss" "Jim Carroll" "John Clement, EDUCOM K-12 Networking Project" "Jonathan I. Kamens" "Joseph R. Massi" "Mark Colvson" "Mark P. McCahill" "Michael Grice" "Peter Marshall CCS UWO" "Peter Scott/Manager,Small Systems/U Sask Lib/5920" "Scott Finet, CSU Law Library" "Spencer W. Thomas" "Steven J. Dovich" "Stewart M. Clamen" "a.e.mossberg" "t. linn" (Don Wells)[email protected] (John Purlia)[email protected] (Eli Messinger) Alessandro Berni Anders Ardo Andreas Bjorklind Andreas Haug Andrew Draskoy Andy Malis Andy Rutter Anthony Baxter Axel Belinfante [email protected] Barry Prescott Bernfried Neukaeter Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager Brendan Kehoe Brewster Kahle [email protected] Chris TerMaat Dan Grim [email protected] (Dan Pritchett) Danny Schwendener Danny Thomas David Bremner David Datta David Gurr David Sewell David Williams Dennis Shiao Dick Dramstad [email protected] Eamonn Ed Anselmo Eelco van Asperen Frank Dunn Fred Heutte Fred Jaggi GONTER%[email protected] (Gerhard Gonter) Gary Capell George Michaelson George Rickerson Gess Shankar Greg Isett Harry Morris [email protected] [email protected] Ian Donaldson Icarus Sparry [email protected] JOANNA James Ault Jan Nicolai Langfeldt Jay Elvove Jeff Graves Jeff Wasilko Jess Anderson Joachim Schrod Jody Worthen Joe Hanus/Microbial Germplasm Database John Danner John DiMarco John G Dobnick John Hasley John Noerenberg John Plate John Stanley Jonathan Kochmer Jonny Goldman Juergen Christoffel Jyrki Kuoppala [email protected] Kai 'Kaizzu' Kein{nen Keith Decker L L Campbell Larry Masinter Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lasse Hiller|e Petersen Lou Rosenfeld Luc Ottavj [email protected] (Martin Kooij) Marianne Boudot Marilyn Martin [email protected] Markus Stumpf Mathias Koerber Matt Heffron Matthew Farwell Matthew Freedman {IS} Matthew Lewis Maurice Rich Michael Gauges Michael Henry Michelangelo Grigni Mike Newman Mike Walker Mowgli Assor [email protected] Paul Jones Paul Shields [email protected] Petri Ojala Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr Reg Quinton Richard Elling Richard Sikorski Robin Valere laa-slc-bsa Ross Paterson Rupert G. Goldie [email protected] (Stan van de Burgt) [email protected] Scott Draves Scott Erickson Scott J. Kramer (()) Sheryl Rose Shmuel Browns Sridhar Venkataraman Stefan Esser Sterling IMD Steve Cisler Steve Feldon Steve Hanson Steve Petersen Ted Zateslo [email protected] Thomas Richter [email protected] Tom Limoncelli [email protected] Toni Emerson Uwe Geuder Vicki Hutchison Victor Scott Gregg