Structures Directory -- Email addresses of structure theorists I merged Max Kelly's copy of structdir with the current copy on boole.stanford.edu. The last broadcast of structdir was 20 months ago, so this might be a good time for a rebroadcast and request for bug fixes, names of omitted people, and other such updates. If you want the latest copy, then please retrieve ftp://boole.stanford.edu/pub/structdir. Vaughan Pratt http://boole.stanford.edu, click on Papers (under Publications) then ABSTRACTS # Structures Directory -- Email addresses of structure theorists # Release 6.2, April 6, 1995 # Master copy: Boole.Stanford.EDU:~ftp/pub/structdir # Maintainer: Vaughan Pratt, pratt@cs.stanford.edu # # # This is an email directory of logicians, algebraists, and programming # linguists working primarily on structural problems in mathematics and # computer science. It is organized as a Unix aliases file and # may be appended directly to the aliases file that normally resides in # /usr/lib or /etc. The most recent release of this directory may be # obtained at any time by anonymous ftp from Boole.Stanford.EDU as the # file /pub/structdir # # The purpose of this directory is to permit those listed in it to be # easily contacted individually by email. # # NOTICE: Please do not use any email address obtained from this # directory for other than the purpose stated above without first # obtaining the consent of the owner of that address. Such proscribed # uses include adding an address obtained from this directory to a # mailing list used for broadcast mailings, and noting the fact of # inclusion in this directory in a profile of the included individual. # # The list observes the following conventions. Column 1 is the alias, # which usually consists of the surname prefixed when necessary for # disambiguation with an initial or the whole first name. It starts in # character column 1 and is restricted to the 26 characters a-z (no # capitals, digits, or punctuation), and usually includes any preceding # "de" or "van". Column 2, which starts in character column 17, is the # email address in lower case with no %'s, and is either a regular # internet domain address, a .bitnet address, or a uucp address in ! # format. Column 3 is "(Forename" and column 4 the matching "Surname)". # The list is sorted by surname using the Unix sort command in the form # `sort +3` (sort ignoring the first three columns). The "de" or "van" # if any is placed in whichever of columnn 3 or 4 achieves its owner's # preferred alphabetization. Column 3 starts as close to column 57 as # possible subject to the other constraints and column 4 is separated # from column 3 by one space. There are no tabs in the file, and no line # is longer than 79 characters. # # Although the directory contains no repeated aliases (column 1 entries), # the aliases file to which you append it may already contain aliases # that also appear here. You should be aware that the resulting # conflicts will not be reported as such, but rather that the mailing # programs will select either the last or first repeated alias as the one # to use depending respectively on whether or not your mail system # preprocesses the aliases file for faster retrieval. # # Vaughan Pratt # Computer Science Department # Stanford University # Stanford, CA 94305 # pratt@cs.stanford.edu # 415-723-2943