From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Sun Mar 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!NET.BIO.NET!biosci-help From: biosci-help@NET.BIO.NET (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: Re: Listserver problems - workaround Date: 3 Mar 1997 04:30:04 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 46 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: biosci-help@net.bio.net NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Unfortunately I am still waiting for a resolution of the mailing list software problem at our U.K. site. If anyone on the U.K. mailing list at daresbury.ac.uk is annoyed at having to add manually the biofilms@daresbury.ac.uk address when replying to the newsgroup & mailing list (instead of doing simply a "reply all addresses"), you could temporarily transfer your subscription to the U.S. site for now which is working correctly. (This applies for e-mail subscribers only, of course, not people who use USENET). To do so, mail to mxt@dl.ac.uk unsub bionet-news.bionet.microbiology.biofilms in the body of your mail message (text on the Subject: line is ignored). To subscribe at the U.S. site, mail to biosci-server@net.bio.net subscribe biofilms again in the body of the message, not on the Subject: line. To reverse the process later, just use "sub" and "unsubscribe" respectively. Our apologies for the inconvenience. I also want to repeat a cautionary note given out when the proposal for this group was originally submitted, so that your ire is not turned against us again when the following happens. This group is **unmoderated**. This means that anyone can post **anything** to it without interference. It is still relatively new and has not yet landed on the radar screen of the increasing number of Internet spam artists. Please do not be surprised if you start getting hit with junk mail at some point. We can always change the newsgroup status at a later date if this becomes a problem, but would need a volunteer moderator. On a low volume group, this is literally only a few seconds of work a day and the task can be rotated between multiple people if the interest is there. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Mon Mar 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Claus Sternberg Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: BIOFILMS: SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTING INSTRUCTIONS (REPOST) Date: 4 Mar 1997 14:28:40 -0000 Lines: 220 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <5fhbio$ne7@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: cs@maaloe.im.dtu.dk Original-To: biofilms@dl.ac.uk SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BIOFILMS GROUP All BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups are now accessible via the World Wide Web. Please go to URL http://www.bio.net and click on the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" option and then click on the BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms hyperlink. You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. If you prefer to use your local USENET newsreader, PLEASE NOTE that many USENET sites do not allow automatic creation of new USENET groups!!! If you do not see bionet.microbiology.biofilms in your newsreader within another day or two, ask your news system administrator to act on our "newgroup" message to enable the group at your site. We have already done several tests and are certain that the group is currently propagating around the network. If he/she can not find the newsgroup message, have them retrieve the bionet checkgroups message from URL ftp://net.bio.net/pub/BIOSCI/doc/bionet-checkgroups-msg This file contains the latest list of bionet USENET newsgroups and can be used to update your bionet distribution. If the newgroup did not arrive at your site, it may also be necessary for your news administrator to contact the upstream computer site providing you with your newsfeed and determine if they acted on the newgroup message. Subscribing to this group: -------------------------- IF YOU USE THE WWW or USENET NEWS (the vastly superior, better organized, and thus timesaving means of participating in newsgroups as opposed to archaic e-mail subscriptions!!): you need do nothing other than participate in bionet.journals.letters.tibs at our WWW site http://www.bio.net or when the newsgroup appears in your local newsreader. Depending upon your news software, this may entail you having to answer a prompt indicating that you want to subscribe. You might also try the command "g bionet.microbiology.biofilms" in rn-like newsreaders. IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE BY EMAIL AND IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: please send the word help in the body of your message to MXT@dl.ac.uk to retrieve general server usage instructions. To subscribe to the BIOFILMS list, first be sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you wish to receive news postings, and then send the command SUB bionet-news.bionet.microbiology.biofilms to MXT@dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and added to the list. IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE BY EMAIL AND IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: log in to the computer account in which you would like to receive mail (not an account that you use infrequently) and send a mail message to the Internet address biosci-server@net.bio.net Leave the Subject: line of the message blank and enter the following line into the body of the mail message: subscribe biofilms This message will be automatically read by our computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and added to the list. Canceling your subscription: ---------------------------- IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: first be sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you signed up to receive news postings, and then send the command (in the body of your mail message) UNSUB bionet-news.bionet.microbiology.biofilms to MXT@dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and removed from the list. IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: send a message to biosci-server@net.bio.net exactly as described above for subscribing except include the text unsubscribe biofilms in the body of the message. Please be sure to send the message from the account whose address matches the one on the list. If your address differs, we will be notified automatically and will remove you manually from the list if we can determine what was your old address. Please contact biosci-help@net.bio.net if you have problems. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: ---------------------- Please send a message to one of the following addresses depending upon your location Address Location ------- -------- biosci@daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia biosci-help@net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim and someone on the staff will help you. PLEASE DO NOT send mail to our personal e-mail addresses as this will delay a response to your request for help. How to post a message to the group: ----------------------------------- You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. Just click on the appropriate mailto: hypertext links containing the newsgroup mailing address which is listed below. If you use news, simply post a message into bionet.microbiology.biofilms. Be sure to set your "distribution" to "world" or else the message might not leave your site!! To post by e-mail, mail your message to one of the following addresses depending upon your location: Posting Address Location --------------- -------- biofilms@daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia biofilms@net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim and your message will be distributed automatically to everyone on the list and the USENET newsgroup. There is no editorial intervention. PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS TO THE POSTING ADDRESSES as you will bother everyone on the newsgroup!!! How to reply to a message on the group: --------------------------------------- If you are replying to a message on our WWW site, simply click on the newsgroup mailing address which should appear as a hyperlink on the To: header line of the message that you are reading if you want to send a public reply. If you want to reply privately, click on the sender's e-mail address which is a hyperlink on the From: line of the message. Your Web browser may allow you to "quote" the original message, i.e., include the text that you are replying to in your response. Please edit out unneeded text to minimize consumption of hardware and network resources. If you are using a newsreader, simply use the reply or follow-up command on your newsreader (these vary from program to program) to send either private or public replies. If you are using e-mail, replies to messages that you receive will *NOT* be automatically returned to the group. This is the standard for Internet mailing lists as opposed to BITNET LISTSERVs which often send all replies back to everyone. You must be certain that your reply contains either of the two newsgroup posting addresses above in your message header if you want to share it with everyone on the group. Otherwise in most cases your reply may go back to only the original poster of the message to which you are replying. ALWAYS be certain that you examine the address on your messages before you send them!!! Once a message is sent there is no way to cancel it or bring it back!!! Some non-Internet compliant mail systems may attempt to send replies to our error-trapping address called BIOSCI-REQUEST. If yours does this, please be sure to readdress your message to biofilms@net.bio.net or biofilms@daresbury.ac.uk if you want to send it to the newsgroup. How to look at archives of the list: ------------------------------------ Archives for BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms are available on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net. Please look under the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" hypertext link and then click on the BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms hyperlink. Each monthly archive directory is assigned a date such as 9509 for September 1995. You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. Postings to bionet.microbiology.biofilms are also indexed and can be searched at our site. Once again, if you have any administrative questions that require personal assistance, please address them to biosci-help@net.bio.net in the U.S. or biosci@daresbury.ac.uk in the UK. Best wishes for a successful newsgroup! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Claus Sternberg, PhD * * Department of Microbiology Technical University of Denmark * * Building 301 DK 2800 Lyngby Denmark * * Phone: (+45) 45 25 25 15 FAX: (+45) 45 93 28 09 * * E-mail: cs@im.dtu.dk * * URL: * * BIOFILMS Homepage: * ------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Tue Mar 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Claus Sternberg Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: BIOFILMS: SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTING INSTRUCTIONS (REPOST) Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:12:16 -0000 Lines: 221 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <5fk610$o5v@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: cs@maaloe.im.dtu.dk Original-To: biofilms@dl.ac.uk (second try, - I'm sorry if two copies eventually appear in your mailbox...) SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BIOFILMS GROUP All BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups are now accessible via the World Wide Web. Please go to URL http://www.bio.net and click on the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" option and then click on the BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms hyperlink. You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. If you prefer to use your local USENET newsreader, PLEASE NOTE that many USENET sites do not allow automatic creation of new USENET groups!!! If you do not see bionet.microbiology.biofilms in your newsreader within another day or two, ask your news system administrator to act on our "newgroup" message to enable the group at your site. We have already done several tests and are certain that the group is currently propagating around the network. If he/she can not find the newsgroup message, have them retrieve the bionet checkgroups message from URL ftp://net.bio.net/pub/BIOSCI/doc/bionet-checkgroups-msg This file contains the latest list of bionet USENET newsgroups and can be used to update your bionet distribution. If the newgroup did not arrive at your site, it may also be necessary for your news administrator to contact the upstream computer site providing you with your newsfeed and determine if they acted on the newgroup message. Subscribing to this group: -------------------------- IF YOU USE THE WWW or USENET NEWS (the vastly superior, better organized, and thus timesaving means of participating in newsgroups as opposed to archaic e-mail subscriptions!!): you need do nothing other than participate in bionet.journals.letters.tibs at our WWW site http://www.bio.net or when the newsgroup appears in your local newsreader. Depending upon your news software, this may entail you having to answer a prompt indicating that you want to subscribe. You might also try the command "g bionet.microbiology.biofilms" in rn-like newsreaders. IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE BY EMAIL AND IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: please send the word help in the body of your message to MXT@dl.ac.uk to retrieve general server usage instructions. To subscribe to the BIOFILMS list, first be sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you wish to receive news postings, and then send the command SUB bionet-news.bionet.microbiology.biofilms to MXT@dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and added to the list. IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE BY EMAIL AND IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: log in to the computer account in which you would like to receive mail (not an account that you use infrequently) and send a mail message to the Internet address biosci-server@net.bio.net Leave the Subject: line of the message blank and enter the following line into the body of the mail message: subscribe biofilms This message will be automatically read by our computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and added to the list. Canceling your subscription: ---------------------------- IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: first be sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you signed up to receive news postings, and then send the command (in the body of your mail message) UNSUB bionet-news.bionet.microbiology.biofilms to MXT@dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and removed from the list. IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: send a message to biosci-server@net.bio.net exactly as described above for subscribing except include the text unsubscribe biofilms in the body of the message. Please be sure to send the message from the account whose address matches the one on the list. If your address differs, we will be notified automatically and will remove you manually from the list if we can determine what was your old address. Please contact biosci-help@net.bio.net if you have problems. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: ---------------------- Please send a message to one of the following addresses depending upon your location Address Location ------- -------- biosci@daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia biosci-help@net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim and someone on the staff will help you. PLEASE DO NOT send mail to our personal e-mail addresses as this will delay a response to your request for help. How to post a message to the group: ----------------------------------- You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. Just click on the appropriate mailto: hypertext links containing the newsgroup mailing address which is listed below. If you use news, simply post a message into bionet.microbiology.biofilms. Be sure to set your "distribution" to "world" or else the message might not leave your site!! To post by e-mail, mail your message to one of the following addresses depending upon your location: Posting Address Location --------------- -------- biofilms@daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia biofilms@net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim and your message will be distributed automatically to everyone on the list and the USENET newsgroup. There is no editorial intervention. PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS TO THE POSTING ADDRESSES as you will bother everyone on the newsgroup!!! How to reply to a message on the group: --------------------------------------- If you are replying to a message on our WWW site, simply click on the newsgroup mailing address which should appear as a hyperlink on the To: header line of the message that you are reading if you want to send a public reply. If you want to reply privately, click on the sender's e-mail address which is a hyperlink on the From: line of the message. Your Web browser may allow you to "quote" the original message, i.e., include the text that you are replying to in your response. Please edit out unneeded text to minimize consumption of hardware and network resources. If you are using a newsreader, simply use the reply or follow-up command on your newsreader (these vary from program to program) to send either private or public replies. If you are using e-mail, replies to messages that you receive will *NOT* be automatically returned to the group. This is the standard for Internet mailing lists as opposed to BITNET LISTSERVs which often send all replies back to everyone. You must be certain that your reply contains either of the two newsgroup posting addresses above in your message header if you want to share it with everyone on the group. Otherwise in most cases your reply may go back to only the original poster of the message to which you are replying. ALWAYS be certain that you examine the address on your messages before you send them!!! Once a message is sent there is no way to cancel it or bring it back!!! Some non-Internet compliant mail systems may attempt to send replies to our error-trapping address called BIOSCI-REQUEST. If yours does this, please be sure to readdress your message to biofilms@net.bio.net or biofilms@daresbury.ac.uk if you want to send it to the newsgroup. How to look at archives of the list: ------------------------------------ Archives for BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms are available on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net. Please look under the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" hypertext link and then click on the BIOFILMS/bionet.microbiology.biofilms hyperlink. Each monthly archive directory is assigned a date such as 9509 for September 1995. You can read, reply to, or post new messages through our Web site if your Web browser is configured properly to send e-mail. Postings to bionet.microbiology.biofilms are also indexed and can be searched at our site. Once again, if you have any administrative questions that require personal assistance, please address them to biosci-help@net.bio.net in the U.S. or biosci@daresbury.ac.uk in the UK. Best wishes for a successful newsgroup! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Claus Sternberg, PhD * * Department of Microbiology Technical University of Denmark * * Building 301 DK 2800 Lyngby Denmark * * Phone: (+45) 45 25 25 15 FAX: (+45) 45 93 28 09 * * E-mail: cs@im.dtu.dk * * URL: * * BIOFILMS Homepage: * ------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Sun Mar 09 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!audrey01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: janczek@aol.com (JanCzek) Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: Respirometer for bacteria cultures, yeast and fungi Date: 10 Mar 1997 05:24:47 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: <19970310052400.AAA06996@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com O2/CO2 RESPIROMETER with optional CH4, NH3, H2, H2S, NO analyzers Features 0.2 ul of O2/h sensitivity, 1 to 80 measuring chambers ( can be your own), operates in closed loop or as an open air flow system. 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Jan Czekajewski, Ph.D. Columbus Instruments janczek@aol.com From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Mon Mar 10 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Mar 1997 02:00:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 239 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199703111000.CAA28761@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/. 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Date: 21 Mar 1997 06:16:00 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 16 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "S. RAJAGOPALAN" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello All, One of my papers came back for revision and I need some information on the maximum specific growth rate of Bacillus coagulans (mu_max). I would very much appreciate if anyone has any information on this number for Bacillus coagulans. If not for Bacillus coagulans, it can be of great help if mu_max can be given for any Bacillus species. Thanks for your time. Raj From owner-biofilms@net.bio.net Thu Mar 20 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!MSN.COM!chocy From: chocy@MSN.COM ("gary mc mahon") Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology.biofilms Subject: Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy Date: 21 Mar 1997 05:21:19 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 8 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am currently in the final stages of my PhD studying biofilms containing Listeria monocytogenes. I have confocal images stored on disc but I am not able to form 3D images of them, due to the operators of the microscope not being able to get the software running properly. I was wondering if there was anyone who would be willing to help me in my predicament. Gary Mc Mahon The Queen's University of Belfast