From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jan 01 22:00:00 1997 Newsgroups: alt.fringeware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.support.warez.recovery,alt.tupperware,alt.warez.g0ff,alt.warez.ibm-pc,alt.warez.ibm-pc.apps,alt.warez.ibm-pc.games,alt.warez.ibm-pc.old,bionet.software,bionet.software.acedb,bionet.software.gcg,bionet. Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!news.tip.nl!news From: "Bitstream" Subject: REQ: reg code for in-cube for win95 (voice recognition) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: amsterdamis30.pop.tip.nl Message-ID: <01bbe833$12b5c8a0$1ed2b18f@t819096> Sender: news@tip.nl (The News User) Organization: The Internet Plaza X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:58:55 GMT Lines: 1 Xref: biosci bionet.software:17532 bionet.software.acedb:1074 bionet.software.gcg:2167 From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jan 01 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: ACEDB data for C.elegans WS1.4-30 Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:25:30 -0000 Lines: 113 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <5ah5jq$p9o@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: acedb_distrib@ppsw.cam.ac.uk This is a broadcast message to the ACEDB mailing list and related newsgroups. If you are on the explicit mailing list and do not want to be, please send email to rd@sanger.ac.uk. ACEDB data updates WG1.4-8 and WS1.4-27 to 4-30 for C. elegans ============================================================== You should be using these in conjunction with release 4_3 of the acedb software. Reminder: there are now two versions of the C.elegans database. The WS1 update series contains everything, whereas WG1 update series contains all data except sequences and directly related material (proteins, motifs etc.), for those with limited resources. The additions since WG1.4-7 and WS1.4-26 are: for both types of update - a physical map update with a few changes (mid Dec) - accumulated genetic data and corrections - from CGC : bibliography, and strains (early Dec) - from Leon Avery : wbg14.4 with connections to genes etc. and for the first time connections to Cells and Cell_groups (these wbg14.4 abstracts got left out of updates in early december by mistake. sorry!)) and for just the complete database including sequences (WS1.4-30) Data fom St Louis and Sanger Sequence databases taken in mid-Dec: - There are now 1859 (1777 before) cosmids totalling 55996632 (53695369 before) bases. - We are switching from using the PIR protein database for homology searches to the TREMBL database, hence many PIR homologies are being deleted and TR ones added. The total database sizes after adding these updates are around 480Mb for the WS1 database and around 75Mb for the WG1 database. It shuold not take so long this time to read in the WS1 updates, perhaps 1 or 2 hours. APOLOGIES ========= - last time the citations and abstracts for wbg14.4 plus some other data were inadvertently excluded. These are within this update. - sorry about the file nomenclature problems in the last set of updates. Instructions for obtaining updates/the whole thing ================================================== All the files are available in the following public access accounts (anonymous ftp sites) accessible over internet: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.20.1) in the USA, in repository/acedb ftp.sanger.ac.uk (193.60.84.11) in England, in pub/acedb lirmm.lirmm.fr (193.49.104.10) in France, in directory genome/acedb In each case, log in as user "anonymous" and give a user identifier as password. Remember to transfer the files in BINARY mode by typing the word "binary" at the start of your ftp session. Many thanks to NCBI for letting us share in their excellent resource. Example: ftp ncbi.nlm.nih.gov login: anonymous password: your user id or email address cd repository/acedb # change to relevant directoy binary # IMPORTANT dir # display files in this directory get README get NOTES get INSTALL cd ace4 # change to ace4 directory get bin.sunos.4_3.tar.Z # get program cd ../celegans # change to worm data directory mget update.WS1.* # get all WS1 update files quit -------------------------------- Get any update files that you do not have already and read the file NOTES before proceeding further. Always get a copy of the INSTALL script. Move it and the .tar.Z files into the home directory in which you are installing ACEDB. Type "source INSTALL". Start acedb (normally by typing "acedb"), click "Yes" to accept initialising the database if starting from scratch, then choose "Add Update File" from the menu (right button), and press "All updates" with the left mouse button. If you have a problem making the program work, look at the section on problems in NOTES, and if that fails to help, let us know. ****************************************************************** Comments about the data should be sent to the data curator, Sylvia Martinelli (sylvia@sanger.ac.uk). Comments about the program, or the installation procedure, should be sent to one of us: Richard Durbin (rd@sanger.ac.uk) Jean Thierry-Mieg (mieg@kaa.cnrs-mop.fr) -------------------- end of message -------------------- From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sat Jan 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news1.infoave.net!dial-15 From: vessle@partake.net (Vessle) Newsgroups: bionet.software,bionet.software.acedb,bionet.software.gcg Subject: "100 Shateware Links Page" (Free Shareware Links) Date: Sat, 04 Jan 97 22:38:49 GMT Organization: Info Avenue INTERNET Access Lines: 3 Message-ID: <5ampo4$bt7@news1.infoave.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-15.r02.tnsmvl.infoave.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: biosci bionet.software:17543 bionet.software.acedb:1077 bionet.software.gcg:2170 "100 Shateware Links Page" (Free Shareware Links) 100 of the most current and active shareware links on the net! Go to: http://www.mamsofco.com/100sl From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jan 07 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!news From: naca@interserv.com Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: aldus pagemaker for mac Date: 8 Jan 1997 00:25:39 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 8 Message-ID: <5aupi3$b21@juliana.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ad55-237.compuserve.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Aldus Pagemaker 3.0 for Mac, $25.00 Aldus Pagemaker 4.0 for Mac, $40.00 Software is brand new! Prices include shipping. e-mail John at naca@interserv.com for ordering information This is no joke! From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jan 09 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!wits.uni.net.za!csir.uni.net.za!und.uni.net.za!und.ac.za!iafrica.com!not-for-mail From: Win Hide Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: ACEDB expert ise in Africa Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:28:29 +0100 Organization: South African National Bioinformatics Institute Lines: 7 Message-ID: <32D651F2.11C7@sanbi.ac.za> Reply-To: winhide@sanbi.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: 196.31.7.70 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Please refer to Jobs offered or http://www.sanbi.ac.za/positions.html We would like to contact the ACEDB community to highlight the avilability of a post in South Africa for a specialist in ACEDB for the fight against TB. From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Fri Jan 10 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!sn.no!Oslo2.Norway.EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news.uoregon.edu!news.hn.netlink.co.nz!clear.net.nz!news From: "The Gamers Share Net" Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: help, games information required Date: 10 Jan 1997 21:57:29 GMT Organization: LML Computing Lines: 1 Message-ID: <01bc0012$ab9c74a0$503261cb@xtr968878.xtra.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1-u16.wgtn.clear.net.nz X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 please visit me at http://wsite.com/shareware From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sat Jan 11 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ice.net!usenet From: Who-me Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: test post Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:59:59 -0600 Organization: ICEnet, Normal, IL USA Lines: 1 Message-ID: <32D88BEF.69D0@NeverNeverLand.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip225.ice.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) This is just a test. From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sat Jan 11 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!cdc2.cdc.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!news From: "Ed Williams" Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: Time Expired Software! Date: 12 Jan 1997 23:51:39 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <01bcd759$b7475da0$b355adce@CRC3.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61037d0023at.concentric.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 How do you get around "Timed expired software."? I would like to post a page on my web site (http://www.cris.com/~elwm/Win95_hpage.htm) about this subject. If you know techniques on how to get around "time expiring software," please forward your idea to me. I will post it and give credit if you would like. If you want your name posted with your submission, please state so in your e-mail message. Thank you! Eddie From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jan 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (Danielle et jean Thierry-Mieg) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: email/net crash in montpellier Date: 16 Jan 1997 14:46:08 -0000 Lines: 4 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <5blevg$1cg@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: acedb@dl.ac.uk We had a complete net crash for a full week at cnrs in montpellier please resend any mail you wish me to see merci jean T-M From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jan 20 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!mr.net!visi.com!hub.org!trends.ca!news1.bellglobal.com!sympatico.ca!not-for-mail From: "Jani Tuomi" Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: BodyCraft 4.0 Date: 21 Jan 1997 03:44:52 GMT Organization: Fincan Construction Lines: 7 Message-ID: <01bc074c$faeee380$5ddaacce@tuomij.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3933.on.sympatico.ca X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Does anybody out there know about BodyCraft 4.0 Where could I get it from, or would anybody sell??? Thanks Jani Tuomi tuomij@sympatico.ca From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Fri Jan 31 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 1 Feb 1997 02:00:11 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 239 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199702011000.CAA01770@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines. The server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list. Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended. The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net