Charter
Google Employee
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The Group Charter is a guide for posting to this group. This document
will be reposted regularly and may change from time to time to assure
that the group rules reflect the needs of the group participants.
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What is google.public.labs.compute?
Google.public.labs.compute is an unmoderated forum whose purpose
is to provide discussion about the Google Labs Compute demo. This
group is currently only available through Google Groups. Any
individual with a question or comment about using the Google Labs
Compute demo may post here.
The Google Labs Compute demo is downloadable software that uses a
computer's idle time to work on solving complex mathematical problems.
It works through the Google Toolbar, which is downloaded when the user
installs Google Compute. The Google Labs Compute demo is available
on labs.google.com, Google's technology playground. For more
information, please see http://labs.google.com.
Occasionally Google employees may post to the group. Any Google
employee who participates in the group will always post with BOTH
the name "Google Employee" and email labs-c...@google.com.
Google.public.labs.compute encourages free and open discussion on
all aspects of the Google Labs Compute demo. However, posts not
on this topic are not welcome. We reserve the right to delete posts
that we consider inappropriate.
In addition, this group explicitly prohibits
* The posting of commercial advertisements or other
promotional material
* Spamming/excessive multi-posting
* Usenet chain letters
* Binary (non-text) postings
* Forgery of another user's identity
If you would like to report abuse on google.public.labs.compute,
send an email to groups...@google.com.
In order to create a constructive forum, all who post to
google.public.labs.compute are encouraged to follow the general
posting tips found below.
General posting tips:
* Posts should carry a clear, descriptive subject line.
* When responding to someone's post it is a good idea to quote the
passages you are responding to. However, it isn't always necessary
to quote an entire post - you should only include the portion you
plan on addressing.
* A crosspost is one that has been directed to more than one
newsgroup. Please do not crosspost when posting to any google.public
group.
* All postings made to this group should conform to existing Usenet
guidelines.See news.announce.newusers for guideline documents and
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_style.html for Usenet
etiquette.
- The Google Labs Team