Publications

Presentations

Here are some additional papers and presentations I've given. Please also see my technology blog.

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Publications

Here are some of my publications that are available on-line. Some from my earlier NIST days are not available electronically.

Barry Warsaw, Mailman, Internationalized (PDF), Usenix 2003 Annual Technical Conference, Freenix Track, San Antonio, TX, June 9 - 14, 2003.
Barry Warsaw, Greg Ward, Fighting Spam at python.org, a Tiered Approach, Slide presentation given at the 1st MIT Spam Conference, Jan 17, 2003.
John Viega, Barry Warsaw, Ken Manheimer, Mailman: The GNU Mailing List Manager, The Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (Usenix LISA '98), Boston MA, Dec 6-11, 1998¹.
Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, John Viega, Mailman -- An Extensible Mailing List Manager Using Python, Seventh International Python Conference.
At the Sixth International Python Conference, I presented a short topic paper entitled Performance Impact of Standard Class Exceptions.
Here is a paper on the Knowbot Operating System, a mobile code (agent) system my group developed.

In my later NIST days, I co-authored a paper on the Depot system for sharing software across organizational and architecture divisions. Essentially, Depot is a set of filesystem and automounting conventions which allow you to more easily share software on a wide variety of platforms.

¹Correction to on-line copy: footnote 3 (page 312) should read

This file may in fact reside in other locations, depending on the system. For example, on many Solaris machines this file is located in /etc/mail/aliases.