boston-lisp-announce is a low-traffic email list for announcements of particular interest to Lisp users in and around Boston, Massachusetts, USA (including Providence, Rhode Island). By "Lisp" here, we mean all the Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp and Scheme.
Relevant topics of boston-lisp-announce messages include:
Under no circumstances are discussion or commentary posts relevant. This restriction is intended to avoid scaring away traffic-averse local Lisp users. Such discussion posts might be very relevant on the comp.lang.lisp or comp.lang.scheme newsgroup, however.
boston-lisp-announce averages less than one post per week.
boston-lisp-announce is a complement to the newsgroups and school-specific email lists, intended to reliably reach the largest number of Boston Lisp users.
boston-lisp-announce was created in 2005-04 (when it was originally called "Bothton"), and has 137 subscribers as of 2008-04-07.
If you're a Lisp user in the Boston area, please subscribe to
boston-lisp-announce by emailing the human at:
boston-lisp-announce-request@neilvandyke.org (Don't be left out LOOP! Ha, ha.)
To post a message to the list, email to:
boston-lisp-announce@neilvandyke.org
Presently, all posts are processed manually by a human editor.
By design, boston-lisp-announce posts are not publicly archived, and should not be forwarded or gatewayed to other lists, newsgroups, nor Web sites. One reason for keeping posts a little private is to not discourage posters who are afraid of spammers' email address harvesters. Another reason is that a startup might wish to locate local Lisp hackers without raising its profile more than necessary.
To unsubscribe from boston-lisp-announce, email the human at:
boston-lisp-announce-request@neilvandyke.org
If you're open to more traffic, consider also subscribing to the similarly-named boston-lisp list, which was started by Dan Stanger.
For help with boston-lisp-announce, contact
Neil Van Dyke
at: neil@neilvandyke.org