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This periodic posting serves as an introduction to newsgroup comp.os.research. A set of companion postings, the Frequently Answered Questions for comp.os.research, summarises some of the past discussions in the group.
Comp.os.research is a moderated Usenet newsgroup created to foster the discussion of and exchange of information on topics in the field of operating systems research. The moderator is Darrell Long <darrell@cse.ucsc.edu> of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The maintainer of the FAQ is Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>.
As far as moderation policy is concerned, the following two principles are applied to each article submitted for posting: is it interesting? is it related to research?
Job announcements will be posted if they are related to operating systems research; blatantly commercial postings are not acceptable.
Calls for papers for most conferences and journals related to OS research will be posted. This is fairly broadly interpreted, since OS research is a large field.
Smart alec comments are generally filed unceremoniously in /dev/null.
Finally, discussions are cut off when the signal-to-noise ratio falls below a certain (fairly subjective) level. Please consider setting the Followup-To: line whenever discussion drifts away from operating systems research.
This posting, like much of Usenet, is maintained on a purely volunteer basis. It is subject to comment and improvement by sending email to <os-faq@cse.ucsc.edu>.