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Newsgroups: comp.home.misc,comp.answers,news.answers
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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!bounce-back
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From: home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk (Kresten Bjerg)
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Subject: comp.home.misc Welcome and FAQ
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Message-ID: <kresten-030394133929@mac1.psl.ku.dk>
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Followup-To: comp.home.misc
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Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked
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Questions (and their answers) about comp.home.misc. It
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should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the
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comp.home.misc newsgroup.
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Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
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Supersedes: <kresten-020394135947@mac1.psl.ku.dk>
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Nntp-Posting-Host: mac1.psl.ku.dk
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Reply-To: home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk
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Organization: IFIP WG 9.3
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 12:39:29 GMT
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Approved: home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk, news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
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Expires: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:00:00 GMT
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.home.misc:3 comp.answers:4014 news.answers:15986
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Archive-name: comp-home-misc-faq
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WELCOME TO
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comp.home.misc
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Media, technology and information in domestic spaces. (Moderated)
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WHAT IS COMP.HOME.MISC ?
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comp.home.misc is a USENET newsgroup devoted to discussions of perspectives
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and options in research, development and use of information-technology,
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telecommunication and automation for the private home.
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It covers questions spanning across the levels of
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* consumer hard- and software
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* network infrastructure
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* storage and distribution-media
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* teleservices and
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* socio-cultural & economic structures.
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WHICH ARE THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THIS GROUP ?
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It shall function as a forum for researchers and developers, who are
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concerned with the problems, conflicts and constructive potentials cutting
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across the main areas of home-oriented technology research and development,
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i.e. bridging between the main areas of 'Advanced Home Technologies',
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'Communication and Telematics', 'Economic and Politics of Home-oriented
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information technology' and 'Cultural and social Impact on everyday life'.
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It shall serve also as a forum to announce and prepare inputs for relevant
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conferences (-such as the Copenhagen Conference on Home Oriented
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Informatics, Telematics and Automation: HOIT 94 Reconstituting OIKOS) and
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serve as forum for further discussions on topics highlighted on such
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occasions.
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SOME OF THE THEMES FROM THE OUTSET EXPECTED TO BE TREATED IN THIS GROUP?
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* The social construction of new domestic technologies
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* The changing position and importance of households in the new social
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and economic structure of the global information and communication
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society
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* Strategies for creating professional, public and political awareness of
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the converging potentials and implications of constructive Home-
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oriented technological innovations for everyday life and for social,
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cultural, educational, health-, energy- and economic policies.
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* Ways of organising relations between sufficiently cross-disciplinary
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research and sustainable product development.
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* Relevance for developing countries and cultural diversities
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HOW COME, THAT THE NAME OF THE GROUP IS SO GENERAL AND BROAD?
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We feel the need to have a crossdiciplinary research oriented forum
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cutting across all home-related issues related to information technology.
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On the other hand we are aware of the very wide spectrum of different
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interests pertaining to narrower, more specialised and practical issues.
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The formation of comp.home.misc will make it possible to discuss the
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further structuring of the domain, and to locate potential moderators for
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parallel groups. We expect to expand the set of groups as the volume of use
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grows and as the usage patterns emerge.
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This may prove the need for future new groups with names like:
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comp.home.ai, comp.home.automation, comp.home.education, comp.home.energy,
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comp.home.medicine, comp.home.multimedia, comp.home.telecom, comp.home.work
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etc. But we think it will be important to ensure an internal structure
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between such groups, so that there will continue to exist a forum, where
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the total electronic situation of the private home in its social
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informational embedding is kept in view.
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MODERATION
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Comp.home.misc will be moderated by Kresten Bjerg, Psychological
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Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, with an advisory panel from IFIP
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WG.9.3.
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The moderator can be reached via e-mail to >home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk<
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WHY IS THE GROUP MODERATED ?
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With the very general title, it must be expected that quite a few postings
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will arrive, which are of little relevance to the purpose of the group.
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Moderation makes it possible to re-direct such postings to other, and more
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relevant fora, while also accumulating empirical evidence concerning the
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needs for new "home groups".
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The moderator will also attempt to establish conventions concerning the use
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of the subject line, i.e. insertion of flag-strings to permit ease of
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orientation, establishment of systematic threads and development of
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preliminary internal domain structures.
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CAN I POST TO THE GROUP WITHOUT HAVING ACCESS TO A NEWSREADER
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Yes, you can submit your text by e-mailing to : >comp_home@vax.psl.ku.dk<
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CAN I FOLLOW THE DISCUSSIONS IN THIS GROUP WITHOUT HAVING ACCESS TO A
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NEWSREADER ?
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YES, all approved postings will be gatewayed to a mailing list:
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In order to subscribe to this list, send email to:
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>listserv@coco.ihi.ku.dk<
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The subject line of the message is ignored; simply place the command:
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subscribe HOME-L <your name>
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in the first line of the body of your message. Then send the message.
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You will receive an automated reply from the list server confirming
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your subscription and providing details on ordering from archive,
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unsubscribing, etc.
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--
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Kresten Bjerg
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Psychological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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