Message-Id:  <199506121948.MAA04392@igc2.igc.apc.org>
Date:         Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:48:27 -0700
Reply-To: Ted Kuster <tkuster@IGC.APC.ORG>
Sender: Technology Transfer in International Development
              <DEVEL-L@american.edu>
From: Ted Kuster <tkuster@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      New List on Steel Industry
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
              <DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>

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 quotes or
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.