Sasha's List of Lists - Version 1.7 June 7, 1996. --------------------- Note: I am not actively updating this ascii listing now. I have been incorporating the changes reported to me though. My hypertext mailing list guide is available at http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/lists.html The following is a selection of about 100 mailing list descriptions, contact addresses and related data. I expect the entries below to be of some interest to people who I may like. Mostly, these lists discuss the frontier scientific, technological and philosophical concepts, futurist ideas, promote ideas of liberty, economic freedom, various alternative intellectual activities and lifestyles, advanced educational concepts, etc. Some of the descriptions below can be found in the periodic posting of the general list of mailing lists currently maintained by Stephanie da Silva . You can find it on newsgroups: news.lists, news.answers, together with usage instructions. (The total number of lists advertised there is approaching a thousand). It is also accessible through the World Wide Web: URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/cgi-bin/paml However, that 'superlist' is incomplete, partly because many list managers neglect to advertise their lists in it. - If you are a list manager and have any interest in expanding your virtual community, you should consider advertising it. So for a good portion of entries below I had to do some searching. This list is an attempt to ease this path for you. The length and quality of the list description below do not necessarily correspond to the quality of the list itself. I just offer all the relevant information I could find. My personal favorites among lists of general interest, for high level of discussion and low noise, are the extropian lists, fringeware and general semantics. I will try to improve this list, so any comments are welcome. If you want to have anything added to, removed from, or changed in this list, please talk to me: sasha1@netcom.com I will do my best to support and update this list, but I do not commit to anything, except removing the information that the list owners may consider private. I am doing my best to avoid such situations though. If you have a list that you want added to general USENET posting, send a request to arielle@taronga.com. Include the list name, contact (request) address and a brief description of your list in the format of the mailing lists already included. I am very grateful to people who sent me mailing list info, to people who will do it in future and to everybody who maintains all these lists and posts to them. I consider these discussion groups to be one of the most magnificent bodies of knowledge development that has ever existed, and hope that my modest connectionist effort will help the cross-pollination of their ideas. Please treat these groups with due respect. If you are not familiar with a mailing list or its topics you may want to read the faq/charter/archives before joining the discussion. Please feel free to share this list or its parts with people whose contact with the listed discussion groups you may expect to be mutually beneficial. Alexander "Sasha" Chislenko ========================================================================== Version 1.00 of this list was created on August 10, 1994 Main changes since then: (check them out if you have an earlier version) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - List | Description --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - V. 1.10: AP-L - List for Advanced Placement Teachers CPSR-announce - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility events FutureCulture - wide array of topics on the future of society OSG - electronic Objectivism Study Group. PSYCHE-L - electronic journal on the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain PSYCHE-D - a moderated discussion group associated with PSYCHE-L wny-pagan - Western NY Pagan Happenings pagan sub-list V.1.2: logo-friends - removed. The list seems to no longer exist biversity - corrected the information V. 1.25: (Aug, 19, 1994) GS - added descriptions of the general semantics list CUD - expanded info on Computer Underground Digest list. V. 1.3: (Sep. 15, 1994) added: AR - Achiever Report - discussion of achievement motivations CYBERMIND - Philosophical and psychological implications of cyberspace ICSI-talk - International Computer Science Institute talk announcements NOVIS - Discussion of Novis project (self-improvement techniques) OFFSHORE - Asset Protection & Financial Planning list PRJ - New Paradigms mailing list SETIQuest - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SLRS - Society for Long Range Studies WFS-TALK - World Future Society list (added description) V 1.4: (Oct. 24, 1994) CSICOP - The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - added info. HotFlash - list name and subscription info changed (was "HotWired") LONGEVITY - Discussion of various ways to extend human life. (added) OMEGA - Omega - Swedish transhumanist mailing list V. 1.5: (Nov. 25, 1994) CAOM - California Odyssey of the Mind educational program DEOS-L - The Distance Education Online Symposium Oceania - New free country in the Caribbean mailing list STC - Stanford Theory Colloquium. wholesys-l - Whole Systems mailing list NOTE: address of this file changed (see above) V 1.6 (December 25, 1994) - last serious update Bionomics - The Bionomics Institute mailing list and newsletter Biotech - Biotechnology mailing list cpsr-[xxx] - added a family of CPSR mailing lists CyberMind - address changed DigitaLiberty - The Digital Liberty Forum Digital Media Perspective - Free biweekly newsletter EDTECPOL - Conference on Educational Technology Policy Fiction-of-Philosophy INNS-L - International Neural Network Society list JEI-L - Technology in Education Mailing List Leri-L - (subscription info changed) V. 1.7 (June 7, 1996) Updated the header of this file. Biversity - Changed subscription info --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, many changes were made to other entries, comments, etc. I am grateful to: Bob Stubblefield , Craig Presson Dave Krieger , Eric S. Raymond , Elizabeth Schwartz , Emory Menefee , Felix Ungman , Flemming Funch , James Daugherty , , John McPherson , John P Onorato ,, Katie Hammett Hall , Patrick M.Fitzgerald, Patrick Wilken , Phil Safier , Richard Kennaway , Richard Plourde , Ron Hale-Evans , Romana Machado , Trond Buland for the information I used for the updates. ========================================================================== agorics Agoric systems (computational economies) mailing list Currently seems dormant. agorics@netcom.com albion New Paradigms Project / albionic research Ruling class / global conspiracy theories E-mail James Daugherty (jhdaugh@msen.mail.com) to subscribe James Daugherty, volunteer Postmaster for A-albionic Research, a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, and custom research since 1984. Introductory information and free articles and catalogs are located in the New Paradigms section of the Msen Market Place (Gopher) and Msen ftp site. ftp.msen.com (/pub/vendor/a-albionic) For those without Gopher or ftp Service or to be added to our Weekly Up-date List: e-mail jhdaugh@mail.msen.com, fax 1-313-885-1181, or A-A Research, POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220 (Snail mail info pack on request). Aleph The following is a part of Aleph FAQ v1.5 explaining the basic structure of Aleph interests. It was too good to be edited. The rest of the FAQ can be found at ftp.netcom.com in pub/aleph together with lots of other aleph texts. FAX / \ FIX --- FOX FIX (Fictual/Interactive/eXpressive): We are attempting to create an unprecedented, open-ended global interactive artwork which we refer to as FIXION, utilizing the Internet as both a creative medium and quasifictional context, for the purposes of evoking the artist in all of us, and for testing the possibility of changing reality through fiction. FIXION may be seen as a fusion of NetWorking and RolePlaying. FOX (Factual/Ontological/eXpositive): We are attempting to conglom a continually-scientifically-evolving, rigorous system of ontological and epistemological data for use in predicting and/or guiding the fate of humanity. In order to accomplish this, we must examine as many ontological models as we can find; "scientific" or "mystical," ancient or modern, sacred or profane. We must translate, learn, correlate, and unify them all. We seek FOXIENCE. The Rosetta Stone. FAX (Fluxual/Ambiknostic/eXegesive): The two focii explained above may be considered diametrically opposed (and indeed are intended that way), because we need to attract input from both "creative/intuitive" people and "analytical/scientific" people. We are aware that most people fall into one or the other of these groups, and are often unable to understand the terms used by the other, or the contexts in which such terms are used. This "babel-effect" has stymied and separated the intuitive and metaphysical arts from the physical and psychic sciences for two thousand years. Now that the findings of Quantum Physicists are beginning to coequal the pithy aphorisms of the Mystics, and even as the hypothesized Singularity draws near, it is high time to attempt their union into a single, relativistic, globally-available model. At current there are several models which are being used as the skeletii of this memestruct, which we call The AAleph. These include, but are not limited to, Terence McKenna's *TimeWave Zero*, the Qabalistic Tree of Life (with a large dash of Crowleyanity), the Tarot Deck, the eight-circuit structure of Timothy Leary (expanded by R.A. Wilson), Buckminster Fuller's *Synergetics*, Jungian *Synchronicity*, *The Dictionary of the Khazars*, *The Gurdjieff Work*, Alchemical and Rosicrucian texts, the Periodic Table of Elements, various cognitive models of consciousness, and the entirety of recorded art, history and science. There are archives of Aleph '93 at netcom.com, in /pub/aleph. Now the list appears to have somewhat drifted away from it's original topics, and is mostly a low volume discussion of quantum mechanics and theories of consciousness, which has been a perennial topic all this year. To subscribe to aleph, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "Majordomo@gossip.pyramid.com": subscribe aleph This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to the aleph list. If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local redistribution list), you can use a command of the form: subscribe aleph other-address@your_site.your_net If you feel you need to reach a human, send email to aleph-approval@gossip.pyramid.com algo-comp Algorithmic [music] composition mailing list This is a forum for issues concerning the creation of musical compositions using algorithmic processes. Some examples of topics for discussion include: * specific works and composers * implementation of algorithms * philosophical and aesthetic issues To subscribe to the list, send email to majordom@heinous.isca.uiowa.edu. The following line should be in the body (not the subject) of the message: subscribe algo-comp To send a message to the list, mail it to: algo-comp@heinous.isca.uiowa.edu Administrator: Dr. Kirk Corey Files available via anonymous ftp at heinous.isca.uiowa.edu, /ftp/pub/algo-comp. Files may be submitted to /ftp/pub/upload. Please include a descriptive .txt file with uploads. alife Contact: alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu Purpose: The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science, the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. The recent book _Artificial Life_, Christopher Langton, ed., Addison Wesley, 1989 introduces the scope of artificial life as a field of study. Alife was chartered in February 1990 at the Second Artificial Life Workshop, held in Santa Fe & organized by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute. The list is intended primarily for low-volume, high-content scientific correspondence and as a publically accessible forum for the interested members of the public. Membership as of July 1990 includes over 1,200 addresses on four continents. There is an FTP-accessible archives/repository of past traffic, software and papers. The list is maintained by the Artificial Life Research Group, Computer Science Department, Lindley Hall 101, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405. There are conditions on redistribution of the list in order to minimize any misunderstanding or exaggeration concerning this new area of study. AltInst Contact: AltInst-request@cs.cmu.edu (Robin Hanson) Purpose: You are invited to joint "AltInst", a new email list on Alternative Institutions. AltInst is solely for proposing and critiquing alternative institutions for various walks of life. Alternative ways to run conversations, countries, households, markets, offices, romances, schools, etc. are all fair game. AltInst is open to folks from any political persuasion, but general political flaming/discussion is forbidden. Skip the theory and just tell us your vision of how something could be different, and how that would work. Many of us are truly excited to hear about creative well- considered suggestions, no matter what the source, but quickly bored by both ideological is-to-is-not flaming, and partisan rah-rahs for anything "politically correct" in some camp. ALTMED A FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH IN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE altmed-res@virginia.edu TO SUBSCRIBE: Send the message subscribe altmed-res
to majordomo@virginia.edu This list was created to promote discussion and collaboration in the emerging field of alternative medicine research. The term "alternative" is used for the sake of convenience. Many of the therapies currently under study such as biofeedback, hypnosis, and guided imagery, have already accumulated a substantial body of research. Others such as ayurvedic, chinese medicine, and massage, are traditional therapies that have been used for centuries in many parts of the world. In the US, approximately one third of Americans use therapies such relaxation techniques, chiropractic, and massage, often in conjunction with conventional medical treatment. Research is currently underway to investigate the safety, efficacy, and validity of these therapies. I invite participation from academically trained researchers, alternative practitioners, and health care consumers who wish to share research findings, clinical case notes or studies, and philosophical views regarding: * past or current research * meetings, conferences and conventions about research in alternative medicine * research methods: design issues, paradigm fit, or statistical questions * potential collaborations We are a diverse, interdisciplinary group, and have much to contribute and learn from one another. For more information or if you have any questions, please write the list owner, Martha Brown Menard AP-L List for Advanced Placement Teachers AP-L is an open, unmoderated discussion list for teachers of advanced placement courses. AP-L is used for posting questions, lesson ideas and providing help for other AP teachers. Students taking AP Courses are also welcome. To subscribe, send the following command in the body of E-mail to LISTSERV@GITVM1 or LISTSERV@GITVM1.GATECH.EDU: Sub AP-L yourfirstname yourlastname Example: Sub AP-L Joe Shmoe AR - ACHIEVER REPORT. The ACHIEVER REPORT is published bi-monthly (sometimes monthly). It focuses on the cognitive and emotional impediments to achievement motivation (and there are many). The newsletter includes papers from various sources, original papers, subscriber submissions, questions and answers, and book recommendations and reviews. E-mail MoreMind@AOL.COM to subscribe To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to MoreMind@aol.com and put UNSUB AR SUBS within the body of the message. Arlist Contact: arlist-request@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Bob Dick) Purpose: Arlist is an open unmoderated mailing list to provide a forum for discussing action research and its use in a variety of disciplines and situations. As its name implies, action research is often a suitable research paradigm when both action outcomes and research outcomes required. It is usually (but perhaps not always) cyclic, participative, and qualitative. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) -- o philosophical and methodological issues in action research o specific action research methodologies and methods o the use of action research for evaluation o actual case studies of action research o the use of action research methodologies for thesis research o increasing the rigour of action research To subscribe email a message to arlist-request@psych.psy.uq.oz.au with the subject arlist subscribe and the message subscribe arlist your-name your_email_address Selected materials are archived at psych.psy.uq.oz.au. They are available by anonymous ftp in directory pub/ar-list. AUtopia ______ A U t o p i a P r o j e c t ________ This list is dedicated to the discussion of creating an intentional high-tech community on the high seas. To join/leave or recieve info about the list, send email to: autopia-request@wixer.cactus.org To post a message to the list, send email to: autopia@wixer.cactus.org This is a semi-moderated list combined with an automated file/list server. If the first line of your message is a special command, the mailer will respond back to you. These are the commands: subscribe / add ..to join the list unsubscribe / drop ..to leave the list list ..to list the available files send [file] ..to send you the file name "FILE" help ..to send you THIS FILE (same as "send readme") For example, if your were to send the following message: To: autopia-request@wixer.cactus.org send faq You would receive a copy of the AUtopia FAQ the next day after the nightly batch file runs. Only one command per email message can be interpreted so far. Our archives are based on a Unix system, so the file listings will be Unix-style. Administrator: Jagwire X ba-liberty Contacts: majordomo@shell.portal.com (Jeff Chan, owner) ba-liberty-owner@shell.portal.com Purpose: Announcement of San Francisco Bay Area libertarian meetings, events, activities, etc. bionomics How is new technology transforming the economy? How will it alter the fundamental qualities of economic life? We don't have all the answers. But we do have a powerful new way to look at the the revolutionary changes brought about by the emergence of the Information Age. And, we have leading edge thinkers and doers from a remarkable variety of disciplines -- high-technology, biology, economics, public policy, business and more -- who share the powerful idea that the economy is an ecosystem. That's right: the economy is _not_ some giant machine. It's like a rainforest. A virtual rainforest where coded information, like DNA, defies entropy. Where organizations (like organisms) cooperate, compete and evolve in a complex, self-organizing process that is not only unplanned, but unplan-able. (Sounds like the Internet, doesn't it.) And, now, we have a discussion group: evolve@bionomics.org. As well as an occasional newsletter: just.the.facts@bionomics.org. JOINING -- send to info@bionomics.org with "SUBSCRIBE Evolve" or "SUBSCRIBE Just.the.facts" in the subject line. Participants in "Evolve" will get "just.the.facts" automatically. CONTRIBUTING -- send to evolve@bionomics.org. This is an archived, quasi-moderated discussion. Signal-to-noise will be kept high. VANISHING -- send "unsubscribe" or any questions to info@bionomics.org or to our domain postmaster, klacobie@bionomics.org. Biotech BIOTECH is an bulletin board dedicated to the free exchange of ideas and data concerning biotechnology. All topics and announcements concerning biotechnology are welcome. If you have any question about the BIOTECH list, write to the list owners at the generic address: BIOTECH-Request@UMDD.UMD.EDU Owner= dan@umdd.umd.edu (Dan Jacobs) Bits-n-Bytes BITS AND BYTES ONLINE EDITION, an electronic newsletter for text-based lifeforms, is published irregularly. Correspondence regarding Bits and Bytes Online Edition is always welcome and may be sent to to: JAYMACHADO@delphi.com Bits and Bytes Online Edition will contain news of interest to anyone interested in the state of the increasingly high-tech world we're living in, in the computer industry, and more importantly in the *future*. We examine how future technology will impact our public and private lives, and how we can learn (maybe) to use to use our skills and technologies wisely. We explore the impact of technology on society and vice versa. SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING: To subscribe send a message to listserv@acad1.dana.edu, no subject, text: SUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@acad1.dana.edu, no subject, text: UNSUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes BIVERSITY The list is for the purpose of announcing upcoming events of interest to the bisexual community in New England. The list address is: biversity@blank.org and the administrative address (to subscribe or unsubscribe) is biversity-request@blank.org Subscription requests should contain the word "subscribe" on a line by itself in the message body. Traffic is pretty low except for brief periods before major LGB events. (Pride Day, e.g.) The Boston Biversity Calendar is posted monthly. Contact: Nathan Mehl blister Contact: majordomo@world.std.com Purpose: Just lists of people's favorite/least favorite books. Find someone whose taste matches yours and you find a bunch of books you'll probably enjoy. No discussion of books. For info, send mail to the contact address, with "info blister" on a line by itself in the BODY (not Subject:) of the letter. To subscribe, send mail to the contact address with "subscribe blister" on a line by itself in the body of the letter. ca-liberty Contacts: majordomo@shell.portal.com (Jeff Chan, owner) ca-liberty-owner@shell.portal.com Purpose: Announcement of California libertarian meetings, events, activities, etc. See also ba-liberty for separate local San Francisco Bay Area libertarian announcements. CAOM - California Odyssey of the Mind educational program Subscription address: CAOM-Request@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU Owner=kwan@sjsuvm1.SJSU.EDU (Stephen Kwan) castaneda The list is no longer active. There is an archive of the list and some related materials (including an extensive bibliography) available via anonymous ftp to earth.com in pub/archive/cc. CEI - Competitive Enterprise Institute Contact: cei@digex.com (Alexander "Sasha" Volokh) Purpose: The CEI mailing list, created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, distributes CEI op-ed pieces and other materials. Founded in 1984, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government. The Institute is founded on the belief that free markets individual liberty best serve the public interest by providing freedom of choice and equal opportunity. conlang Contact: listserv@diku.dk Purpose: The conlang mailing list is devoted to a discussion of any and all constructed languages (also known as artificial languages, planned languages, etc). If you want to publicize your own language, or if you need help finding information about some other language project, or if you want to discuss the relative merits of various tongues, conlang is the place to be! To join, send a message to listserv@diku.dk containing the text "subscribe conlang". Connectionists Contact: Connectionists-Request@cs.cmu.edu Main address: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Moderators: Dave Touretzky, David Redish Connectionists is a restricted mailing list primarily intended for discussion of technical issues relating to neural computation, and dissemination of information directly relevant to researchers in the field. It is NOT a public digest like AIList or the NEURON digest; membership is restricted to students and faculty members who are actively involved in connectionist research. If you would kindly send a list of your papers or other activities in this area, we will be glad to add you to the list. Please include your full name. conspire Conspiracy Nation mailing list. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@prairienet.org with: subscribe conspire My Name in its body Maintainer: Brian Francis Redman bigxc@prairienet.org "The Big C" cpsr-announce Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility event list Founded in 1981, CPSR has 1800 members from all over the United States and 21 chapters. CPSR is an important participant in the dialogue that is helping to shape the future use of computers in the United States. CPSR's National Advisory Board includes one Nobel laureate and three winners of the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science. CPSR published the influential report "Serving the Community" on policy issues in the National Information Infrastructure, and is an active participant in the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable in Washington. CPSR has been instrumental in a lot of the anti-Clipper mobilization, for example, and the opposition to the various Digital Telephony initiatives. CPSR seems to define the "social responsibility" as "socialist responsibility", however, and in general leans too far leftwards. To help support or steer CPSR's activities, you may subscribe to the cpsr-announce list by contacting its listserver address: listserv@Sunnyside.COM The address of the list itself is: cpsr-announce@Sunnyside.COM The same listserv@Sunnyside.COM can also provide you with info on 30+ other CPSR mailing lists, including: cpsr-global@cpsr.org Discussion of Global CPSR Issues cpsr-palo-alto-members@cpsr.org CPSR Palo Alto chapter Announcements cpsr-library@cpsr.org CPSR discussion of the Internet Library cyberjournal@cpsr.org Moore's CPSR PA Chapter Cyber Journal ethics@cpsr.org CPSR Internal Ethics Working Group gii-doc@cpsr.org CPSR Global Issues Document Group nl-kr-mods@ai.sunnyside.com Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest = comp.ai.nlang-know-rep cpsr-berkeley-members@cpsr.org discussion to all CPSR/Berkeley members cpsr-boston-members@cpsr.org discussion to all CPSR/Boston members cpsr-boston-announce@cpsr.org genl announcements (includes cpsr-boston-members) cpsr-nii@cpsr.org CPSR NII Members NII Discussions cryonics Contact: kqb@whscad1.att.com (Kevin Q. Brown) Purpose: Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the future. This list is a forum for topics related to cryonics, which include biochemistry of memory, low temperature biology, legal status of cryonics and cryonically suspended people, nanotechnology and cell repair machines, philosophy of identity, mass media coverage of cryonics, new research and publications, conferences, and local cryonics group meetings. CSICOP - The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal (CSICOP), publisher of _Skeptical Inquirer_ magazine, now has a World Wide Web site at the following URL: http://iquest.com/~fitz/csicop/ Includes online interfaces for subscribing to the CSICOP mailing list, links for subscribing to _Skeptical Inquirer_, and links to other Web sites. [The following is the "About CSICOP" page] The more serious-minded among us ask what is going on. Why the sudden explosion of interest, even among some otherwise sensible people, in all sorts of paranormal "happenings"? Are we in retreat from the scientific ideas of rationality, dispassionate examination of evidence, and sober experiment that have made modern civilization what it is today? For a long time, the raising and answering of such questions have been left to commentators and journalists. Eighteen years ago, scientists started to fight back. They set up an organization - the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - to investigate unusual phenomena. Contact: Barry Karr (aa538@freenet.buffalo.edu) CUDigest Computer Underground Digest list Computer Underground Digest is a forum for the discussion of legal, ethical, social, and other issues regarding computerized information and communications. It welcomes contributions reflecting diversity of thought and perspective. The broad goal of CuD is to provide a forum for discussion and debate of the computer telecommunications culture. This culture especially includes, but is not limited to, the unique world of BBSes, Internet, and public access systems. We focus especially on alternative groups that exist outside of the conventional net community. We try to focus on a broad range of issues that include news,debates of legal,ethical and technical issues, and scholarly research of relevance to a broad audience of professionals and lay persons. Other than providing a context for an article if necessary, the moderators *DO NOT* add commentary of agreement or disagreement. We see our role as one of facilitating debate, although we may take part in discussions in separate articles. 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Some issues that might be relevant: the psychology of intimacy, the role of gender, the phenomenology of the terminal screen, neurosis and paranoia on the Net, the relationship of lag to community and communi- cation, sex/gender/sexual orientation theory and electronic subjectivity, the role of the symbolic or imaginary in computer communication, the implications of symbolic extensions of the human ("external memory", and so forth), fantasy and the hallucinatory aspects of email/USENET groups/MUDs, and the psychoanalysis of lurking. This is an "open list" - posts on all aspects of the above issues and more will be welcomed. It is open to general discussion, group readings of published works, and the sharing and critique of participants' works-in-progress. We want to stress, however, that our intent is to explore these issues in the broadest sense. Discussions focused on IRC, MUD's/MOO's, Virtual Reality, etc. are already readily available on the Internet. While it is perfectly acceptable to discuss these issues when relevant, we do wish to discourage threads that are too narrowly limited to any particular medium or "sub-realm" of cyberspace. Similarly, while critical examination of cyberpunk literature can yield important insights, and we welcome discussion of work in that genre, "fan"-type discussions of cyberpunk, of the type available on alt.cyberpunk, etc., are not appropriate on this list. One concern we hope to address is the way in which much theoretical work on cyberspace to date reflects an exclusive, hegemonic bias, thus foreclosing some of the most interesting and radical of possibilities for the development of Net culture. We want to challenge ourselves and the list members to integrate issues of race, sex, class and multiculturalism in our efforts to think cyberspace together. 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The list is moderated by members of the Systems Science department of the Watson School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). All kinds of postings are welcome, including discussion, argument, suggestions for improving the list/file server, calls for papers, conference announcements, computer programs, and requests for references and literature. Moderator: CYBSYS@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU Contact for comment/suggestions: Cliff Joslyn, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu cypherpunks The cypherpunks list is a forum for discussing personal defenses for privacy in the digital domain. It is a high volume mailing list. There is no digest version available. For subscription info, contact cypherpunks-request@toad.com List manager: Eric Hughes There is an announcements list which is moderated and has low volume. 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DigitaLiberty The DigitaLiberty Forum is a place where like minded individuals can share their views, observations, and strategies related to the development of virtual communities based on freedom. It is a place where people can exchange information and advice about how they have developed extra- territorial business and social relationships - away from the influence and outside the jurisdiction of governments. It is a forum for the posting of essays, questions, and ideas on the topic of liberty. It is a place where we can meet and debate the forms that our new institutions might take and discuss the practical problems and responsibilities that freedom entail. In time as our technology matures some of us will move on to more ambitious projects, launch other programs, and begin our virtual migration from the swamp of coerced collectivism. Best of all, there will be no need to physically move to 'Galt's Gulch' or escape to a floating 'Freedonia'. We can all participate in this exodus without hastily quitting our jobs or disrupting our lives. And as a larger and larger portion of our economic and social activities move onto the net we will create a new society, open to all with the will to enter. This new world will be interleaved with the physical world in which we now live and yet will be separate. And free. The DigitaLiberty Forum is open to anyone that can honestly make the following two statements: 1) I renounce the use of coercive force as a tool of social or economic policy. 2) I do not derive the majority of my income from funds taken from taxpayers. If you qualify, send a message to DigitaLiberty-request@phantom.com (or listproc@phantom.com ?) with the words "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line and the message body as follows SUBSCRIBE DigitaLiberty Digital Media Perspective A new fortnightly electronics newsletter published by Digital Media: A Seybold Report. 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As of mid-August 1994, topics have ranged from E-Prime (English without the verb "to be") to even more radical extensions and alterations of language, to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on linguistic relativity (the idea that the structure of the human being's language influences the manner in which he understands reality and behaves in respect to it), to Korzybski's theories of 'time-binding' (packaging and transmission of knowledge), and how GS relates to Zen Buddhism. All viewpoints are welcome, though deliberate disruption is discouraged. General Semantics studies the ways in which the neurological, cultural, and personal representations we use constrain perception and inference. It develops quasi-therapeutic disciplines designed to increase our "consciousness of abstracting", our awareness of what we throw away each time we use, accept, or communicate a representation. In doing so, it dramatically increases effectiveness at reasoning correctly and commu- nicating clearly; it also makes us far more aware of and resistant to semantic manipulation. The study of general semantics sharpens our awareness that sensory information is only an approximation, or abstraction, of what we usually call the real world. To communicate, we use language and symbols to represent results of the abstracting process, with the necessary consequence that others may react to and apply their collection of abstractions quite differently than we do. By constant consciousness of how we use and interpret such approximations of reality, we may (accepting anecdotal evidence) expect to gain better control of our voluntary actions, a surprisingly satisfying and even valuable achievement. To join the GS List, send a message to mcpherso@lumina.ucsd.edu To send mail to the other participants, send it to the address: gs@lumina.ucsd.edu HotFlash Wired current news More than 16,000 subscribers To subscribe to the HotFlash mailing list, send a message to info-rama@wired.com with the text subscribe hotflash in the body of the message. ICSI-talk Announcements of public lectures organized by the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. icsi-talk-messages@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU, talk@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Requests to be added to or deleted from the "talk" mailing list should be directed to talk-request@icsi.Berkeley.EDU. INNS-L - International Neural Network Society mailing list This is a list for news and announcements, for members of the International Neural Network Society. If you have any question about the INNS-L list, write to the list owners at the generic address: INNS-L-Request@UMDD.UMD.EDU Owner= Metzger@umbc (Mary Ann Metzger) IPCT-L on LISTSERV@GUVM or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List (IPCT-L) was created February 1992 by the Center for Teaching and Technology (CTT) at the Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University. A special effort will be made to promote an international forum for pedagogical issues important to higher education involving teaching with technology, and especially with connectivity and networking. A goal is to create a forum for the discussion of computing and other technology that can be used to promote learning.Topics for discussion may involve teaching and training; collaboration; partnerships among learners, faculty or teachers, and other interested persons in the educational community; and research that reflect these interests. The decade of the 1980s was characterized by the _personal_ computer, and development of individual productivity. The focus of the IPCT-L, as we move toward the 21st century,is that _interpersonal_ computing and technology will tie persons together throughout the world - to share ideas and solve problems. Besides creating a forum for the topics of interest noted above, another interest of the CTT is to publish a scholarly, refereed international journal. To that end, the IPCT-L will develop a subscription list and act as a resource to develop the community necessary to review articles and recommend editorial policies as these publishing goals move forward. 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This list is meant to provide a medium through which educators and other interested parties can exchange information, learn of new developments, learn of new science and technology resources, and exchange technical concerns. Though the prime interest of the list centers around users of the USGS JEdI CD-ROM set, discussion of other uses of technology in the K-12 classroom are encouraged and welcomed. All list subscribers will receive an ASCII version of the Joint Education Initiative newsletter through the list. If you have any question about the JEI-L list, write to the list owners at the generic address: JEI-L-Request@UMDD.UMD.EDU Kurt Goedel Society Purpose: The Kurt Goedel Society is setting up an electronic mailing list for members and people interested in the activities of Society. Information about the Goedel Colloquia, Calls for Papers, the Collegium Logicum Lecture Series, the Newsletter, and information from sister societies will be distributed. If you would like to be included in the mailing list, or have any questions, send an email to: kgs@csdec2.tuwien.ac.at Contact: kgs@csdec2.tuwien.ac.at Leri-L (Leri-L Metaprogramming Mail Service) Purpose: The Leri-L list is for the bravest of net.addicts who are willing to give up their subscriptions to every other mailing list in order to keep up with the sheer volume of posts on Leri. There is never a central theme to the discussions on the list, but one thing most of the subscribers have in common is an appreciation for psychedelic pharmaceuticals. Best thing for you to do is to check out the FAQ which is in the archives, reachable via anonymous FTP at bertha.pyramid.com. Basically Leri is an electric commune, and is probably one of the most interesting, albeit laden by its own verbosity, mailing lists one could ever hope to be a part of. Go read the FAQ. To subscribe, send 'subscribe leri' to majordomo@leri.net. In case of problems, you may try to contact help@alpha.c2.org or sameer@c2.org libernet Contact: libernet-request@dartmouth.edu (Barry S. Fagin) Purpose: Libernet is a Libertarian mailing list. The list is available in two modes: as a mail reflector and as a digest. LIBFEM Contact: libfem-news-request@math.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) libfem-talk-request@math.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) Purpose: The focus of LIBFEM is the classical liberty and individual rights perspective as applied to feminist issues, such as issues regarding ideology, politics, culture, gender, etc., in order to establish a network for information, discourse, cooperation, encouragement and consciousness raising. There has always been an element of individualism in the various women and feminist movements, although this element seems to have been somewhat neglected in recent movements. LIBFEM has been divided into two groups: LIBFEM-NEWS (low volume; news items and original postings) and LIBFEM-TALK (news and discussion; occasional high volume). List-Managers Contact: Brent@GreatCircle.COM (Brent Chapman) Purpose: There was a "Mailing Lists" workshop session at the USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VI) in Long Beach, CA, on October 22, 1992. The participants in that workshop expressed a desire for a mailing list for discussions of issues related to managing Internet mailing lists, including (but not limited to) software, methods, mechanisms, techniques, and policies. I've created the list as "List-Managers@GreatCircle.COM". That address is a direct mail relector: all messages sent to that address are immediately forwarded to the list. There is a digestified version of the list available as "List-Managers-Digest@GreatCircle.COM". 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Up to 50% of list traffic is in the Lojban language. Novice questions are welcomed. To be added to the list send to the listserv address above: subscribe lojban firstname lastname The listserver will add you at the address from which it thinks you sent the request. If you need to be added at a different address, or need other manual assistance, contact the second address. The Logical Language Group, Inc. asks new subscribers to send a postal mailing address to the second address, so that they can be added to the organization mailing list. If you have any question about the LOJBAN list, write to the list owners at the generic address: LOJBAN-Request@CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU An archive of list traffic and material about the Lojban language may be found at ftp.cs.yale.edu, directory pub/lojban LONGEVITY This list discusses ways to extend human life. Medical and Health-related issues will be discussed. 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The subject may come up from time to time, but there are other lists which already give extensive coverage of that topic. To subscribe send an e-mail to with nothing in the subject line and only the words "subscribe mind-l " in the text. Some back issues and other related documents and programs are stored on Mind-L's ftp site. The address is asylum.sf.ca.us. Logon as "anonymous" and use your email address as a password. Look in the directory /pub/mind-l. MOCHIN - MIND, MATTER & MASHIACH: A forum for discussing ultimate reality and the nature and role of intelligence, especially as concerns the integration of higher and lower in the context of Jewish and metaphysical thought. While the Jewish context is formally required by Nysernet, we are open to insights from all traditions. You are cordially invited to exchange thoughts on the role of intelligence in world transformation. Suggested foci include: intuition, creativity, vision, genius, breakthrough, conscience, mission, obsession, destiny, desire, will, altruism, essence, being, consciousness, faith, certainty, science and religion, objectivity, immortality, etc. The command to subscribe is "subscribe MOCHIN your name" and should be sent as a message to "listserv@israel.nysernet.org" and not to the list address. MOCHIN is sponsored by the Project Mind Foundation. List moderator: David S. Devor MUD Contact: jwisdom@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joseph Wisdom) Purpose: If you are new in the MUD world, or are simply looking for new places to get into, try subscribing to Internet Games MUD-List today! Make sure to include the string "mud list" in the subject header. NERaves (Northeast Raves) Contact: listserv@umdd.umd.edu Purpose: One of several regional rave-related mailing lists, NE-Raves covers the Northeastern U.S., including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. If you wish to subscribe, mail listserv@umdd.umd.edu with the phrase: add ne-raves name@address as the only line in the message. It will automatically reply with all the information you need to know to be a NE Raves CyberTribe member. :) neuron Contact:neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Peter Marvit) Purpose: Neuron-Digest is a moderated list (in digest form) dealing with all aspects of neural networks (and any type of network or neuromorphic system). Topics include both connectionist models (artificial neural networks) and biological systems ("wetware"). Back issues and limited software is available via FTP from cattell.psych.upenn.edu. The Digest is gatewayed to USENET's comp.ai.neural-nets. new.country Contact: oceania@world.std.com Purpose: Discussion of the new country Oceania. This beautiful sea-city in the Caribbean will be the center of freedom on this planet. It has already been featured nationwide in Details magazine, Boating magazine, The Elliot Wave Theorist, PC Techniques, and the Art Bell show. International coverage, too numerous to mention, has also occurred. newlists New List Announcements NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU Contact: info@vm1.nodak.edu (Marty Hoag) Purpose: This is a mailing list "clearing house" for new mailing lists. Subscribers will get announcements of new lists that are mailed to this list. NewsCom Contact: starkid@ddsw1.mcs.com (Lance Sanders) Purpose: To make available synergies discerned in, and created from, print news media (up to a 12-year time-span). Many "facts", particularly scientific ones, have a habit of changing with time. NewsCommando shows extreme prejudice toward those articles whose contents exhibit "legs." The depth of insight possible using the information mosaic method can be staggering. A form of electronic magazine, NewsCommando can serve as a reference tool, offer unique jump-off points for Medline, PaperChase, or other searches, and, in many ways, is the "poor-man's IdeaFisher/IdeaBank." Vol. 1 will contain the following articles: ChemTao: Synergies In the Life Sciences EarthWatch1: Defining the Scope of Environmental Destruction Why Euthanasia Must Never Be Legalized Use "NewsCom request" in the "Subject:" field of message headers. Indicate article title(s) desired or "all" in body of message. Articles will be deposited in your mailbox with a "NewsCom/Vol.#" Subject header. Most will be in excess of 20K. Please group-save them to a file for later reading. NOVIS This list is for discussion of the Novis project. The Novis project is an effort to compile together a volume of techniques, knowledge, tools, exercises, disciplines, etc. about self-improvement. The name of the list comes from Robert Heinlein's short story "Gulf", in which he describes an organisation of superhumans, who are the next evolutionary step beyond current humanity, and who call themselves Homo Novis, as distinct from mere Homo Sapiens. The novis list is devoted to self-improvement techniques, the primary focus being the development of abilities far beyond the average, rather than merely remedying deficiencies. This list is intended to be devoted to practical discussions of techniques/exercises/tools/etc being developed and/or explored for the Novis project. We are not interested in philosophical debates or political rants, as they have forums/lists elsewhere. On a more general note, the following is paraphrased from the OPTIManual. The OPTIManual is Jim Meritt's compilation of self-improvement techniques, advice, etc. culled from the previous Novis list he ran a few months back. This is a list for people who want more out of life. This list contains the thoughts and discussions of a wide variety of people around the world who are trying to become the best people they can - people who are trying to become the kind of people they want to be rather than the kind of people others expect them to be. People who set their own standards rather than just compete to be better. The OPTIManual is meant to be a launch pad for you to start your own self transformation. Whatever your reasons for wanting to change yourself, the mechanisms are similar. Specifically, the mechanisms we're discussing are those to get the absolute maximum performance in every area of your life. Basically, this book is for people who want to stand head and shoulders above the crowd, to be Optiman (optimal man)." You can find parts of the Optimanual at the Novis ftp site (elvis.tamu.edu) The list address is novis@elvis.tamu.edu. To subscribe, send mail to listserv@elvis.tamu.edu containing the line: SUB NOVIS Your Name NSG NSG-D Nanotechnology Study Group NSG is moderated. Its function is to publish the lecture schedule of the MIT Nanotechnology Study Group. Very rarely other notices dealing with events of exceptional interest will be posted. Discussion of these lectures and any other matter involving nanotechnology should be directed to NSG-D. To subscribe, send the message 'subscribe nsg' or subscribe nsg-d' to 'majordomo@world.std.com'. If you want to inform the NSG list of an event of exceptional interest, post the news to nsg@world.std.com. If you wish to discuss any aspect of nanotechnology, post that discussion to nsg-d@world.std.com. If you wish to reply to a message on nsg-d, please check the header on your reply to make certain your mailer has understood your wishes. Oceania Oceania is a new nation which will be sited in international waters in the Caribbean. Its Constitution provides significant guarantees of liberty and privacy. And the people organizing it are determined to live free. To subscribe to our mailing list, send the message SUBSCRIBE OCEANIA-L to listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu. To unsubscribe, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE OCEANIA-L to listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu. OFFSHORE OFFSHORE is an open, unmoderated discussion list intended to be a mutually beneficial educational forum featuring: Use of offshore structures such as asset protection trusts, foreign trusts, international business companies (IBC's), family protective trusts, limited liability companies, deferred annuities, second passports or citizenship, etc. for privacy, asset protection, tax benefits and for personal financial security for family and loved ones. Discussions and comparisons of the various tax havens will be entertained. 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Cornez, J.D. arniec@hopf.dnai.com OMEGA Omega is a new mailing list, intended as a forum for persons interested in Transhumanism and currently located in Sweden. For some time now, several electronic meeting places have been started for discussion of ideas relevant to transhumanism. Most of these are geographical independent. Despite the internationality and absence of borders of the electronic community, there are still much that concerns only those in the Sweden area. Omega was started in September 1994. Anyone is welcome to participate, but the mailing list is intended as a channel of information for persons living in Sweden. The number of areas relevant to transhumanism are countless, but science and technology are two of the most important. Some examples are artificial intelligence, bionics, cryonics, mega-technology, memetics, nanotechnology, nootropics, omega-point,and ultimate limits of physics. The list of topics can never be completed, because new science and technology appear every day. Send mail to: omega-admin@hu.se - subscription and info requests omega@hu.se - articles, information, essays, etc. Note: most of the list traffic is in Swedish OSG Electronic Objectivism Study Group. The purpose of this electronic Objectivism Study Group is to provide a forum for exchange of information about Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism among people who take ideas seriously. 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The subscription address is wny-pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu Paramind List Name: Paramind@eskimo.com This is a mailing list for discussing concepts of computer-generated writing especially those related to the theory of the "telical exhaustion of the interaction of words." Telical means, "towards an useful end." The Paramind Brainstorming program, which was created with this theory in mind, will be discussed in detail. Appropriate Topics include: * Speculating on the theory of "telical word-interaction exhaustion." * Use of this theory for important research and aesthetics. * How we can come up with useful and unique statements by computer means. * Examples of uses of the Paramind program, such as merges and new word categories. NO long postings from universities, companies or individuals regarding AI conferences will be accepted. No postings of subject matter not directly related to producing text-output by computer means. 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Topics include his books and stories, and books and stories about him and his life; however, discussion can (of necessity) branch out into the nature of reality, consciousness and religious experience. PRJ The New Paradigms Project Archive and Discussion List ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Prj, is an majordomo mail list for those exploring, questioning, or attempting to create "paradigms" or "worldviews" in the major fields of human endeavor and knowledge. A "New Paradigms Project" implies that humanity's current, operative, but conflicting and evolving paradigms are in need of change to meet the challenges of the future, but does not automatically rule out the restoration of "Old Paradigms" or "Lost Knowledge" as part of the needed "New Paradigms". Some of the paradigms under consideration are listed below. Feel free to suggest others that may merit discussion and archiving. **The Myths of Democracy and Pluralism vs Ruling Class/Conspiracy Theories ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is America ruled by the outcome of the democratic process in which a plethora of interests have hand or is "democratic process" a myth by which a ruling class obtains the consent of the governed for its exploitive, parasitical social and economic engineering? If the ruling class/conspiracy paradigm is correct, is the ruling class unified or engaged in serious factional conflict? And, if the ruling class/conspiracy paradigm is correct, are America's ruling factions subservient to or influenced by international geopoliti- cal forces such as Secret Societies, the British Oligarchy, the Vatican, or other religion, philosophy, race, or ethnicity based power entities. 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PSYCHE-L PSYCHE (ISSN: 1039-723X) is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by sending the one-line message: SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L YourFirstName YourLastName to LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET or LISTSERV%NKI.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. PSYCHE-D PSYCHE-D is a moderated discussion group dedicated to supporting an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. 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SETIQuest is published for professionals, serious and amateur astronomers, and individuals curious about this fascinating field of observation. SETIQuest fills the need for a specialized astronomical publication devoted exclusively to the on-going search for evidence of life in the Universe. Such evidence could be intentional or inadvertent signals of other civilizations. Such evidence could be found in spectral signatures of biological activity on extrasolar planets or in the interstellar medium. SETIQuest is written and edited for the scientifically literate individual taking part in the progress of our technological civilization, with articles by amateur and professional scientists. SETIQuest includes information about hands-on observational programs that can be carried out by individuals and groups of amateur astronomers at radio and optical wavelengths. 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Among the paranormal topics that are commonly examined are parapsychology and psychic claims, creationism, cult archaeology, UFO's, cryptozoology, reincarnation/survival, quackery, the occult and divination; but the discussion is not limited to any predetermined set of magical beliefs or alleged pseudosciences. In connection with paranormal claims, issues involving science and philosophy in general are often raised. There is no policy of excluding any topic from consideration. While the common point of view expressed is skepticism about claims that go against current scientific pictures, critical approaches to science itself are also encouraged. 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SLRS Society for Long Range Studies (SLRS) Purpose: to support the Institute of Long Range Studies (ILRS) and to study the far future Mailing List Topic: Near Future Enclave (an informationally filtered, geographically isolated anticipatory democracy dedicated to making quantum breakthroughs). What Biosphere II was supposed to be for space exploration, NFE will be for future exploration. Based on Alvin Toffler's "enclaves of the future". To subscribe: Send e-mail to: jbowman@sunbelt.net with a line: subscribe SLRS in either Subject or Body of the message. To discuss, Send e-mail to: jbowman@sunbelt.net Subject: NFE or: Subject: SOM - Society of Mind list Discussion of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind book/theory. Currently this list is dormant; with some effort, we can revitalize it! 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Administration: lisa@tmn.tmn.com (Lisa Kimball) - moderator; wfsadmin@tmn.com Wholesys-l This is a new mailing list for the discussion of: - the principles of whole systems, - abundance economies, - the creation of a new civilization, - new global paradigms - whole system metaphysics This might be a list for you if you would consider reading books like: "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" by Buckminster Fuller "Earth Ascending" by Jose Arguelles "Paradigms" by Joel Arthur Barker "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot "Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield "The Mind Map Book" by Tony Buzan "The Future of Mankind" by Tara Singh The intention is to create and discuss a positive vision for the future of planet Earth as a whole system. This is an unmoderated public list. No flaming will be allowed, but frank discussions are welcome. It is pre-supposed that the participants support the general idea of creating a better future. 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Stories about the Young Scientists' Network have appeared in Science, Physics Today, and on National Public Radio; we've met with officials from the National Science Foundation and other agencies. =========================================================== ADDITIONAL USEFUL SERVICES: - mail-to-usenet gateways group.name@paris.ics.uci.edu group.name@cs.dal.ca group.name@ug.cs.dal.ca - netnews - Usenet news clipping service Allows you to scan the whole newsfeed for things you want, with a variety of options. Sends results by mail. I highly recommend it! send a message to netnews@db.stanford.edu, with just one word, help, in its *body*, to get info. - sorting incoming mail ... may be the only way to cope with high message traffic. I personally used 'deliver' program on my Unix machine to sort all my mail into folders - one for each mailing list I am on, a private folder, archive of my own messages, etc. I found it extremely useful. (I wish it could read all this stuff for me, too ;-) ) Now I use Eudora for the same purpose on my PC, and like it even more. I can help you to configure it if you are interested. There are also lots of other ways to do it; you can use procmail, mailagent, elm's filter, Pegasus,... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - sasha1@netcom.com If you have access to the Web, please look into a partial hypertext version of this guide at http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/lists.html You can also find lots of interesting references in my home page: http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html