Invitation to join gnuplot-developers@yggdrasil.com

[Adam J. Richter]

COMPONENT:     gnuplot
SOURCES:       usr/src/usr.bin/gnuplot-3.5
CONTRIBUTOR:   grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil
MAILING LISTS: gnuplot-bugs at yggdrasil.com
               gnuplot-developers at yggdrasil.com
               gnuplot-questions at yggdrasil.com
	       gnuplot-answers at yggdrasil.com
MAILING LIST LOGS (available by anonymous FTP):
               yggdrasil.com:pub/mailing-lists/answers/gnuplot
               yggdrasil.com:pub/mailing-lists/bugs/gnuplot
               yggdrasil.com:pub/mailing-lists/developers/gnuplot
               yggdrasil.com:pub/mailing-lists/questions/gnuplot


2 February 1994


Dear Free Software Developer:

	To improve communications in the free software community,
Yggdrasil Computing has created 1,396 automated mailing lists on
yggdrasil.com for 349 free software components.  This free service
should produce the following benefits:

	1. Developers can spend less time maintaining mailing lists.
	2. Repetitive questions will be reduced because the logs of
	   these mailing lists will be available from yggdrasil.com.
	3. Bugs will be reported more quickly, because users won't have
	   to do as much research to determine where to send bug reports.
	4. Potential contributors will be able to reach other free
	   software developers more easily.

	We have created separate "-bugs", "-developers", "-questions"
and "-answers" mailing lists so that you can choose which types of
email that you're interested in receiving or route these lists to
different folders.  You have not been added to these lists.  To add
yourself to any of these mailing lists, just copy the following commands
into a shell window:

echo subscribe gnuplot-answers grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil | mail listserv at yggdrasil.com
echo subscribe gnuplot-bugs grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil | mail listserv at yggdrasil.com
echo subscribe gnuplot-developers grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil | mail listserv at yggdrasil.com
echo subscribe gnuplot-questions grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil | mail listserv at yggdrasil.com

	If you answer a question about gnuplot, please cc your answer
to gnuplot-answers at yggdrasil.com.  Like the other mailing lists,
the "-answers" mailing lists will be logged in anonymously FTPable files
that users will be able to check to avoid asking questions that other
users have already answered.  All of the mailing lists are logged in
anonymous FTPable files, but the "-answers" mailing list log will
presumably be the most useful.

	Do not be alarmed if you receive many copies of this message.
That just means that you have been invited to join a number of mailing
lists, most of which will probably have very little traffic.

        You can add or delete any email address that you like
to and from these lists.  If the function of one of these mailing lists
is already duplicated elsewhere, then please replace the contents
of our mailing list with the email address of the other mailing list.
We are not trying to create competing mailing lists, but do want to
make sure that mail that is sent to foo-{developers,bugs,questions}
at yggdrasil.com is routed to the correct people, so please make
sure that these mailing lists do the right thing.

	We are interested in expanding this service in the future.  We
invite the developers of other free software packages to contact us
with package names and lists of developers' email addresses so that we
can set up additional mail aliases'.  We are only interested in
setting up mailing lists for software that is free in at least the GNU
sense.  In the future, we would like to implement a bug tracking
database accessible through telnet and perhaps also with an X-windows
interface.  Some sort of connection to source trees and regression
testing would be nice too.  Perhaps some sort of tie-in to usenet news
instead of or in addition to email would be helpful.  If you have
other ideas for automated free services that would add useful
infrastructure to the free software community, please let us know,
especially if you are volunteering to implement them.

	For those of you who have diligently waded through this email
message, we at Yggdrasil would like to thank you for your contribution
to gnuplot.  If you are an author of gnuplot, we would like
to offer you a free copy of our product, LGX, a plug-and-play
Linux-based operating system comprised entirely of free software.  For
more information on our free copy offer, FTP the file
pub/for-contributors/free-copy-offer from ftp.yggdrasil.com.

	If you do not qualify as an author of the free software in
LGX, you may be able to get a free copy by actively helping with the
"-questions" mailing lists.  When the Winter 1994 release comes out,
we will randomly select 100 of the messages logged in the "-answers"
mailing lists, and offer each of the authors of those messages a free
copy.  We reserve the right to disqualify any messages that are not
answers to real users' questions.

	Happy Hacking!

Adam J. Richter
Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated

P.S. The initial list that this message has been mailed to was generated
by scanning the source trees listed at the top of this message in the
SOURCES field.  Please invite anybody who wants to join one of these mailing
lists to do so by sending mail to listserv at yggdrasil.com with the line
"subscribe <mailing-list>" in the body.  Here is a list of who has already
been contacted:
BITFTP at pucc.princeton.edu
David.Kotz at Dartmouth.edu
EMAIL=bug-gnuplot at dartmouth.edu
EMAIL=grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil
Francois.Dagorn at cicb.fr
Pal.Hedne at termo.unit.no
RobertE at beta.TP2.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
YEHAVI at VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
alexlehm at iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
amr at chiton.ucsd.edu
archie at sura.net
bigler at cicg-calcul.grenet.fr
broman at nosc.mil
bug-gnuplot at ames.arc.nasa.gov
campbell at nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
caryr at vice.ico.tek.com
chan at holo.iitsg.nrc.ca
christo at bnr.ca
clarkmp at prony.Colorado.EDU
clipper at csd.uwo.ca
cliu at merlin.appmath.columbia.edu
comp-graphics-gnuplot-faq_746677383 at fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
crowl at cs.orst.edu
d-lewart at uiuc.edu
danm at hpnmdlc0.sr.hp.com
daveg at csvax.cs.caltech.edu
davis at ecn.purdue.edu
dbt at victoria.risc.rockwell.com
dfk at moose.dartmouth.edu
djlinse at phoenix.princeton.edu
djm at gnu.ai.mit.edu
dwalton at athena.mit.edu
efrank at upenn5.hep.upenn.edu
empleop at afal-edwards.af.mil
eric at tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
fearick at physci.uct.ac.za
ferguson at cs.rochester.edu
fhis1231 at w204zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
ftpmail at decwrl.dec.com
gershon at cs.utah.edu
gildea at erl.mit.edu
grassp-list at moon.cecer.army.mil
gregor at kafka.saic.com
gwhite at bionet.bio.dfo.ca
haan at irimcf.tudelft.nl
holtz at civeng.carleton.ca
honoo at nc.titech.ac.jp
ian at augean.ua.oz.au
ig25 at fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
info-gnuplot-beta at dartmouth.edu
info-gnuplot at ames.arc.nasa.gov
isaac at frodo.physics.mcgill.ca
jdc at nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
jgrosh at brl.mil
jimr at maths.su.oz.au
johnston at maxwell.ee.washington.edu
jvdwoude at hut.nl
kaph6 at solx1.central.susx.ac.uk
khc at eece.ksu.edu
kssingvo at immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
lihn at ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu
lippert at risoe.dk
luechen at cis.udel.edu
luecken at udel.edu
marius at rhi.hi.is
masaki at isea.is.titech.ac.jp
maurice at bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
mckenney at sri.com
merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov
mgr at asgard.bo.open.de
moeller at gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de
mrb2j at kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU
mustafa at seas.smu.edu
news at solitary.stanford.edu
nholtz at civeng.carleton.ca
ntomczak at vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
olav at jordforsk.nlh.no
oliveria at caen.engin.umich.edu
olof at fysik4.kth.se
parks at physics.purdue.edu
ph12hucg at rz.uni-sb.de
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
prf at jprix.che.wisc.edu
przemek at rrdstrad.nist.gov
ray at mtl.mit.edu
rjh2 at ns.cc.lehigh.edu
rjl at monu1.cc.monash.edu.au
rkc at xn.ll.mit.edu
ron at mlfarm.com
rshouman at hermes.chpc.utexas.edu
russo at rudedog.nrl.navy.mil
schuh at ames.arc.nasa.gov
shen at athena.cs.uga.edu
siglun at volterra.teorekol.lu.se
ssclift at neumann.uwaterloo.ca
stegerc at informatik.tu-muenchen.de
strobel at phast.phys.washington.edu
sun!kekvax.kek.jp!YAMAMOTO at pixar.com
tbopp at uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
tkacik at hobbes.cs.gmr.com
tom at silica.mse.ufl.edu
tony at gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM
toy at soho.crd.ge.com
tpw at ama.caltech.edu
veenstra at cs.rochester.edu
vsnyder at math.jpl.nasa.gov
wew at naucse.cse.nau.edu
william at cs.ucla.edu
woo at ames.arc.nasa.gov
zhang at whbws.ms.ornl.gov