IRList Digest           Wednesday, 10 December 1986      Volume 2 : Issue 69

Today's Topics:
   Email - Note about urgency of using local redistribution lists
         - BITNET-ARPANET Gateway overload and its resolution
         - Redistribution point for Finnish and some European sites
   Abstracts - PISA Conference

News addresses are ARPANET: fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa  BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
   CSNET: fox@vt   UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq

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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 86 13:49:33 EST
From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Subject: Re:  Rick: What is the problem about hops? Thanks, Ed
     
...
Also, you MUST reduce the size of the mailing list. Your
list is causing sendmail to core dump because of the size of the list.
(This is why you are seeing multiple copies transmitted). I don't have
time to debug sendmail, so our only solution is to reduce the size
of the list with local aliases (as I mentioned earlier).
     
---rick
[Note: We have already made a big dent in this but can do further, so
readers please continue to set up local aliases!  Thanks, Ed]

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Date:         Thu, 04 Dec 86 08:34:28 EST
From:           Judith Molka  <AKLOM%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      setting up sub-lists
     
The following is a message sent from Larry Landweber, coordinator of the
Wisconsin Gateway to ARPAnet and BITNET List Administrators.
     
"Because of Arpanet congestion problems, our WISCVM mail relay is unable
to keep up with the quantity of mail sent to it for forwarding. While the
problem is particularly acute in the Bitnet to Arpanet direction, the level
of traffic in both directions is a problem.  A large part of this
traffic results from mailing lists.  Furthermore, while we are usually only
sent a single copy of a list mailing, the recipient list is often very long.
A single message may require the sending of over a hundred copies <over BITNET.>
This is  a problem for two reasons... Arpanet congesion makes it difficult at
times to establish and keep TCP connections and such connections are slow;
second, the implementation of the gateway at present makes multiple copies
for forwarding <to BITNET> (a poor design choice that is being worked on).
At present, the first problem is far important.
     
Note that in a about a month we will begin limiting the number
of copies we will relay by putting a limit on the number of recipients
in RCPT TO lines in SMTP and BSMTP.  This limit is likely to be 10.
     
Thanks in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
     
Larry Landweber"
     
The BITNET Network Information Center has been working with Larry Landweber
on the problem discussed above.  If your Special Interest Group does
not have a BITNET site willing to create a sub-list to maintain your
BITNET subscribers, then we will assist in finding you a site.
If you have found a BITNET site to host your sub-lists, then please
send the name of your SIG and the name of the BITNET sub-list to
AKLOM@BITNIC.  This information is needed by Rich Zellich to update
the ARPANET SIGs file.  The BITNIC will coordinate the efforts of
those on the network who are working on distribution lists.  This
includes working with Rich Zellich to provide instructions
in ARPANET SIGs of where users should subscribe for each list,
helping the maintainers of the sub-lists in obtaining existing
subscriptions from the ARPAnet coordinators and contacting the SRI-NIC
to help us set up lists for the ARPAnet subscribers to BITNET lists.
     
These are the ARPAnet SIGs which we are aware of that have BITNET
sub-lists in operation.
     
     ARPAnet list                           BITNET list
     ----------------------------------     --------------------
     INFO-VAX@SRI-KL.ARPA                   INFO-VAX@UGA
     INFO-IBMPC@C.ISI.EDU                   I-IBMPC@UGA
     INFO-KERMIT@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU         I-KERMIT@UGA
     SF-LOVERS@RED.RUTGERS.EDU              SFLOVERS@UGA
     SECURITY@RED.RUTGERS.EDU               SECURITY@UGA
     INFO-HZ100@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA            INF-Z100@CLVM
     UNIX-SOURCES@BRL.ARPA                  UNIX-SRC@CLVM
     INFO-NETS%MIT-OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU        INFONETS@BITNIC
[Note: I will try to get us added by having a list on vtvm1, but that
will take some time.  Meanwhile, our solution of sending to BITNET
users from the BITNET machine vtvax3 and to INTERNET and UUCP sites
from seismo seems to be the best approach. - Ed]

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Date:     Tue, 9 Dec 86 15:12 N
From:     LILIUS@FINFUN
Subject:  Gateway problems ARPA <-> Bitnet
     
     
Hello !!
      With the help of POSTMASTER@FINHUTC (Harri Salminen,
      Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) I have set  up
      a redistribution list of your digest at LISTSERV@FINHUTC.EARN.
      The server is mainly used to redistribute digest through
      the finnish networks but I suppose at least european net-
      user could subscribe from it. So:
           - Could you start sending to LISTSERV@FINHUTC.EARN
[Note: This has been added! - ed]
           - Drop me from your distribution list (i am moving to
             LISTSERV)
           - Put out an announcement telling about this new
             service
      I will be the owner of the list, so please contact me in
      case of trouble.
                          Cheers,
                                 Johan Lilius
                                 LILIUS@FINFUN.EARN
[Note: Please, all subscribers of IRList who can receive issues
through this redistribution point, get yourself added to it and let me
know so I can delete more names from the central list.  Thanks! - Ed]
     
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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 86 10:53:19 est
From: wyle@ifi.ethz.chunet
Subject: pisa bibliography

Dear Dr. Fox:

Here is the Pisa conference in _refer_ format:


%A N J Belkin
%A B H Kwasnik
%T Using structural representation of anomalous states
of knowledge for choosing document retrieval strategies
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A C Berrut
%A P Palmer
%T Solving grammatical ambiguities within a surface syntactical parser
for automatic indexing
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A A Bookstein
%T Performance of self-taught documents
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A P Bosc
%A M Courant
%A S Robin
%T Calin:  A user interface based on simple natural language
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A Y Chiaramella
%A B Defude
%A M F Bruandet
%A D Kerkouba
%T IOTA:  A full text information retrieval system
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A B Croft
%T User-specified domain knowledge for document retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A D Crouch
%T The visual display of information in an information retrieval
environment
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A D DeJaco
%A G Garbolino
%T An information retrieval system based on artificial intelligence
techniques
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A U Deppisch
%T S-tree:  A dynamic balanced signature index for office retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A M K DiBenigno
%A G R Cross
%A C G DeBessonet
%T Corel:  A conceptual retrieval system
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A T Doszkocs
%T IR, NLP, AI, and UFOS: or IR relevance, Natural Language
Problems, Artful Intelligence and User-Friendly On-line Systems
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A A ElHamdouchi
%A P Willett
%T Hierarchic document classification using Ward's clustering method
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A A S Fraenkel
%A S T Klein
%A Y Choueka
%A E Segal
%T Improved hierarchical bit-vector compression in document
retrieval systems
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A N Fuhr
%T Two models of retrieval with probabilistic indexing
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A S Gallelli
%A C Iacobelli
%A P Marchisio
%T An approach to multimedia information management
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A S Gibbs
%A D Tsichritzis
%T Document presentation and query formulation in Muse
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A D Williamson Harman
%T An experimental study of factors important in document ranking
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A P Ingwersen
%A I Wormell
%T Improved subject access, browsing and scanning mechanisms in
modern on-line IR
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A P B Kantor
%A J J Lee
%T The maximum entropy principle in information retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A K L Kwok
%T An interpretation of index term weighting schemes based on document
components
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A R Losee
%A A Bookstein
%A C T Yu
%T Two poisson and binary independence assumptions for probabilistic
document retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A I A Macleod
%A P Martin
%A B Nordin
%T A design of distributed full text retrieval system
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A E Ozkarahan
%A F Can
%T An automatic and tunable document indexing system
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A V Raghavan
%A J S Deogun
%T User-oriented document clustering:  a framework for learning in
information retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A G Salton
%T Recent trends in automatic information retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A A F Smeaton
%T Incorporating syntactic information into a document retrieval
strategy:  An investigation
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A J Teuhola
%A T Raita
%T Text compression using prediction
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A G Thurmair
%T Realist:  retrieval aids by linguistics and statistics
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A T Truckenmueller
%A M Rathgeb
%T Methodological issues for the design of an office information
server
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A C J VanRijsbergen
%T A new theoretical framework for Information Retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A E Voorhees
%T The efficiency of inverted index and cluster searches
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A S K M Wong
%A W Ziarco
%A V Raghavan
%A P C N Wong
%T On extending the vector space model for Boolean query processing
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A S K M Wong
%A W Ziarko
%T A machine learning approach to information retrieval
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986

%A C T Yu
%A T C Lee
%T Non-binary independence model
%B 1986 ACM Conference on research and development in information
retrieval
%E F Rabitti
%C Pisa, Italy
%D September 1986


                      M i t c h e l l     F     W y l e

    EEEEE TTTTTT H   H   Eidgenoessische        wyle%ifi.ethz.chunet@csnet-relay
   E       T    H   H   Technische Hochschule
  EEEE    T    HHHHH   Zuerich                  !seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!wyle
 E       T    H   H   Instiut fuer Informatik   Telephone: 011 41 1 256 5235 
EEEEE   T    H   H   8092 Zuerich, Switzerland  "Ignore alien orders"

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