Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:48:27 -0700 From: Ted Kuster Subject: New List on Steel Industry New list: Steel-Talk There is no shortage of journalists, economists, steelworkers, engineers, organizers, MBAs and sociologists out there studying the steel industry. What we don't seem to do enough, however, is talk to each other across professional lines. Steel-Talk, a new electronic mailing list,* aims to promote such exchanges and see if we can't all use them to learn more about what we do. Steel-Talk is a way for people involved in any of the industry's myriad facets to hear fresh perspectives on the issues they face and to air their own opinions and concerns. Announcements, queries, draft articles, manifestos, press reprints, polemics and other kinds of communications are welcome, on topics like (in no order): New process-control technology Environmental regulation and deregulation Social organization in the mill Labor-management cooperation International trade and competition Safety and quality efforts Sales and management automation Scrap purchasing and processing Ore extraction Alternative materials Rail, truck and barge And anything else that is bothering you. List administrator Ted Kuster is a contributing editor for Iron Age/New Steel, the main steel industry magazine, but the list is not a project of Iron Age/New Steel. The list is open to anyone and is only lightly moderated. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to Majordomo@igc.apc.org with the words Subscribe Steel-Talk [Your Name] (without the brackets), leaving the subject line blank. See you in computerland. *For the uninitiated: An electronic mailing list is a "loop" of people connected together via e-mail to discuss a specific topic or issue. Anyone on the mailing list can "post" an item to the list for everyone else to see. New items on the list appear periodically in your own incoming e-mail. Steel-Talk, like every electronic mailing list, consists of two addresses. "Steel-talk@igc.apc.org" is the address where all the messages are sent. Anything sent to this address will land in the mailbox of every subscriber to the list. The other address, "Majordomo@igc.apc.org," is where you send your subscription or signoff requests. If you are unclear on how to send or receive e-mail, check with your on-line service provider, who will explain it all in excruciating detail. This may sound very complicated, but I (Ted) have been able to determine from personal experience that even a hopeless manual typewriter devotee can use this system. Besides, there are no penalties for sending e-mail messages incorrectly. So just try it, and eventually it will probably work.