Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [OBI] Online Book Initiative Mailing List Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 23:33:53 GMT [These were Gopher'd from the OBI's current system, The World Public Access Unix , so they don't have headers or dates. The OBI collection is available by FTP from that system in /obi.] The Online Book Initiative Mailing List The Online Book Initiative is being formed to make available freely redistributable collections of information. There exists huge collections of books, conference proceedings, reference material, catalogues, etc. which can be freely shared. Some of it is in machine-readable form, much of it isn't. The purpose of the Online Book Initiative is to create a publicly accessible repository for this information, a net-worker's library. (A more complete description and original announcement is available under the subtopic 'help obi' purpose.) To bring people together in this effort two mailing lists have been formed: obi@world.std.com General discussion obi-announce@world.std.com Announcements-only To be added to either mailing list send to: obi-request@world.std.com and specify which list you would like to be on (announce or discussion.) If you don't specify I will put you on the discussion list (all announcements will appear on the discussion list, you don't need to be on both.)