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- From: home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk (Kresten Bjerg)
- Subject: comp.home.misc Welcome and FAQ
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- Archive-name: comp-home-misc-faq
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- WELCOME TO
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- comp.home.misc
- Media, technology and information in domestic spaces. (Moderated)
-
-
- 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,
- telecommunication and automation for the private home.
-
- It covers questions spanning across the levels of
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- * consumer hard- and software
- * network infrastructure
- * storage and distribution-media
- * teleservices and
- * socio-cultural & economic structures.
-
-
- WHICH ARE THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THIS GROUP ?
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- It shall function as a forum for researchers and developers, who are
- concerned with the problems, conflicts and constructive potentials cutting
- 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',
- 'Communication and Telematics', 'Economic and Politics of Home-oriented
- information technology' and 'Cultural and social Impact on everyday life'.
- It shall serve also as a forum to announce and prepare inputs for relevant
- conferences (-such as the Copenhagen Conference on Home Oriented
- Informatics, Telematics and Automation: HOIT 94 Reconstituting OIKOS) and
- serve as forum for further discussions on topics highlighted on such
- occasions.
-
-
- 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
- * The changing position and importance of households in the new social
- and economic structure of the global information and communication
- society
- * Strategies for creating professional, public and political awareness of
- the converging potentials and implications of constructive Home-
- oriented technological innovations for everyday life and for social,
- cultural, educational, health-, energy- and economic policies.
- * Ways of organising relations between sufficiently cross-disciplinary
- research and sustainable product development.
- * Relevance for developing countries and cultural diversities
-
-
- 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
- cutting across all home-related issues related to information technology.
- On the other hand we are aware of the very wide spectrum of different
- interests pertaining to narrower, more specialised and practical issues.
- The formation of comp.home.misc will make it possible to discuss the
- further structuring of the domain, and to locate potential moderators for
- parallel groups. We expect to expand the set of groups as the volume of use
- grows and as the usage patterns emerge.
-
- This may prove the need for future new groups with names like:
- comp.home.ai, comp.home.automation, comp.home.education, comp.home.energy,
- comp.home.medicine, comp.home.multimedia, comp.home.telecom, comp.home.work
-
- etc. But we think it will be important to ensure an internal structure
- between such groups, so that there will continue to exist a forum, where
- the total electronic situation of the private home in its social
- informational embedding is kept in view.
-
-
- MODERATION
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- Comp.home.misc will be moderated by Kresten Bjerg, Psychological
- Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, with an advisory panel from IFIP
- WG.9.3.
-
- The moderator can be reached via e-mail to >home_request@vax.psl.ku.dk<
-
-
- WHY IS THE GROUP MODERATED ?
-
- With the very general title, it must be expected that quite a few postings
- will arrive, which are of little relevance to the purpose of the group.
- Moderation makes it possible to re-direct such postings to other, and more
- relevant fora, while also accumulating empirical evidence concerning the
- needs for new "home groups".
-
- 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
- orientation, establishment of systematic threads and development of
- preliminary internal domain structures.
-
-
- 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
- NEWSREADER ?
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- YES, all approved postings will be gatewayed to a mailing list:
-
- In order to subscribe to this list, send email to:
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- >listserv@coco.ihi.ku.dk<
-
- 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.
- You will receive an automated reply from the list server confirming
- your subscription and providing details on ordering from archive,
- unsubscribing, etc.
-
- --
- Kresten Bjerg
- Psychological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
-