Dear Bob: In the future it might be useful if you could ask for a reaction to such a message so the correction could be sent out at the same time. - Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agreed, Bob March 11,1990 Dear Colleague: This letter is to announce the availability of a Bulletin Board for Category Theory on BITNET. The address is CATEGORIES@MTA.BITNET. The intention is to operate in a manner similar to the Types Bulletin Board. To join the mailing list, simply send a message to: categories-request@mta.bitnet. After confirmation of two-way transmission your name will be added to the list. Please provide a very complete return address. To distinguish messages for forwarding from others of an administrative nature, please mail to Categories ONLY messages which are intended to be forwarded. All other messages should be sent to categories-request@mta.bitnet, or to me ( rrosebrugh@mta.bitnet ) Anyone may submit (electronically only) any material about Category Theory (and only about Category Theory) for distribution - abstracts, announcements of results or meetings, queries, or full papers. Material will be forwarded as received unless there is evidence that the message received is garbled. The initial committment is that turn-around times will not exceed a couple of days. TeX files are welcome in any flavour - plain, AmSTeX or LaTeX. They should include a Character Code Reference which is available on request. Unfortunately, until we see how well this works, there can be no committment to either authors or subscribers regarding accuracy of TeX files transmitted. TeX preprints will be archived separately, and a catalogue of them will be published irregularly. Macro packages are the responsibility of the author, however an attempt will be made to archive versions of diagram macro packages. I gratefully acknowledge assistance from David Jones at Types who suggested some of the procedures to be used. Electronic addresses to which this is being sent are taken from lists provided by Mike Barr and Max Kelly, and I thank them (and Mike Johnson who transmitted Max's list.) Those seem to be the main points. Looking forward to a useful exchange, Regards, Bob Rosebrugh /TO categories@mta.bitnet /BC Mike Barr <INHB@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>, Francis Borceux <FBORCEUX@BUCLLN11.BITNET>, Aurelio Carboni <CARBONI@IMIUCCA.BITNET>, Peter Freyd <PJF@LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU>, Mike Johnson <munnari!mqcomp.mqcs.mq.oz.au!mike@uunet.uu.net>, Paul Johnson <PJOHNSON@WESLEYAN>, Stefano Kasangian <KASAN@IMIUCCA.BITNET>, Fred Linton <FLINTON@WESLEYAN.BITNET>, Phil Mulry <PHIL%COLGATE.CSNET@RELAY.CS.NET>, Susan Niefield <NIEFIELS@UNION.BITNET>, Bob Pare <PARE@CS.DAL.CA>, Andy Pitts <AP@CL.CAM.AC.UK>, Pino Rosolini <MATEMA2@IPRUNIV.BITNET>, Dietmar Schumacher <SCHU@ACADIA>, Phil Scott <SCPSG@UOTTAWA.BITNET>, Robert Seely <MT79@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>, Ross Street <munnari!mqcomp.mq.oz.au!street@uunet.uu.net>, Paul Taylor <PT@DOC.IC.AC.UK>, Bob Walters <munnari!maths.su.oz.au!walters_b@uunet.uu.net>, Charles Wells <WELLS@CWRU.BITNET>, Richard Wood <GRETCHEN@CS.DAL.CA> /TX The following message has been sent out to about 100 addresses from Mike's and Max's address lists. On the assumption that anyone I have heard from wishes to be included on the subscriber list, I have included you already. Let's see how it goes. Bob ******************************************************************************** March 13,1990 Dear Colleague: This letter is to announce the availability of a Bulletin Board for Category Theory on NETNORTH. The address is `CATEGORIES@MTA.BITNET'. The intention is to operate in a manner similar to the Types Bulletin Board. To join the mailing list, simply send a message to: categories-request@mta.bitnet After confirmation of two-way transmission your name will be added to the list. Please provide a very complete return address. To distinguish messages for forwarding from others of an administrative nature, please mail to Categories ONLY messages which are intended to be forwarded. All other messages should be sent to categories-request@mta.bitnet, or to me ( rrosebrugh@mta.bitnet ) Anyone may submit (electronically only) any material about Category Theory (and only about Category Theory) for distribution - abstracts, announcements of results or meetings, queries, or full papers. Material will be forwarded as received unless there is evidence that the message received is garbled. The initial committment is that turn-around times will not exceed a couple of days. TeX files are welcome in any flavour - plain, AmSTeX or LaTeX. They should include a Character Code Reference which is available on request. Unfortunately, until we see how well this works, there can be no committment to either authors or subscribers regarding accuracy of TeX files transmitted. TeX preprints will be archived separately, and a catalogue of them will be published irregularly. Macro packages are the responsibility of the author, however an attempt will be made to archive versions of diagram macro packages. I gratefully acknowledge assistance from David Jones at Types who suggested some of the procedures to be used. Electronic addresses to which this is being sent are taken from lists provided by Mike Barr and Max Kelly, and I thank them (and Mike Johnson who transmitted Max's list.) Thanks also to the category theorists who made suggestions before this announcement. Those seem to be the main points. Looking forward to a useful exchange, Yours truly, Bob Rosebrugh <RROSEBRUGH@MTA.BITNET>