From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 05 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 6 Mar 1997 02:00:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 239 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199703061000.CAA17217@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 From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Mon Mar 10 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lille1.fr!usenet From: eqpcmv@univ-lille1.fr Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: test Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:50:02 +0100 Organization: Universite des Sciences et Technologie de LILLE, France Lines: 10 Message-ID: <332546EA.4BDC@univ-lille1.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: phyvmac2.univ-lille1.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) CC: test -- *********************************************************** Equipe de physiologie cellulaire et morphogenese vegetales Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Batiment SN2, 3eme etage F-59655 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ Cedex, FRANCE Tel: 03.20.43.40.52 Fax : 03.20.33.72.44 Email: eqpcmv@pop.univ-lille1.fr *********************************************************** From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 11 22:00:00 1997 Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank,embnet.general Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!ebi.ac.uk!venus.ebi.ac.uk!redaschi From: Nicole Redaschi Subject: EMBL Release 50 available Sender: news@ebi.ac.uk (usenet news) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:57:34 GMT Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: European Bioinformatics Institute Lines: 18 Release 50 (March 1997) of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from the EBI anonymous FTP server: ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release This release contains 1,187,455 sequence entries comprising 789,755,858 nucleotides, an increase of about 13% over release 49. More details are in the release notes available at URL: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/relnotes.doc For those who download our file of cumulative updates (cumulative.dat.Z), please note that this file has changed (become smaller) on 11.03.97 at 12:00 to contain only data created since release 50. Regards, Nicole Redaschi EMBL-EBI From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 18 22:00:00 1997 Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Path: biosci!agate!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!ebi.ac.uk!uranus.ebi.ac.uk!malik From: malik@uranus.ebi.ac.uk (Ansar Malik) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Immunogenetics IMGT database - update Sender: news@ebi.ac.uk (usenet news) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:42:10 GMT Lines: 60 Reply-To: malik@uranus.ebi.ac.uk (Ansar Malik) Organization: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL) - UK X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-31 Keywords: database, immunogenetics, immunoglobulin, T cell receptor cell,sequences annotation, DNA sequence IMMUNOGENETICS IMGT DATABASE =================================== Professor Marie-Paule LEFRANC Laboratoire d'ImmunoGenetique Moleculaire, LIGM UMR CNRS 9942, Institut de Genetique Moleculaire BP 5051, 1919 route de Mende, 34033 MONTPELLIER Cedex 1 FRANCE Telephone: (33) 67 61 36 34 FAX : (33) 67 04 02 31/67 04 02 45 e-mail : lefranc@ligm.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr INTRODUCTION ============ The ImMunoGeneTics database, IMGT, is an integrated specialised database containing nucleotide sequence information of genes important in the function of the immune system. It collects and annotates sequences belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily which are involved in immune recognition, these are the B cell antigen receptor (Immunoglobulin or Ig), the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) (LIGM-database) and the class I and class II molecules of the Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) system (HLA-database). IMGT/LIGM DATABASE ================== An integrated immumogenetics database (IMGT/LIGM) specialising in Ig and TcR is under development through collaboration between LIGM, IFG and EMBL oustation EBI. This database consists of the Ig and TcR sequence entries. Collaborators: Release 97.03 contains 8287 fully annotated sequence entries. LIGM Montpellier :Marie-Paule Lefranc (coordinator) Veronique Giudicelli,Denys Chaume EMBL-EBI :Ansar Malik IFG :Werner Mueller ACCESS/DATA DISTRIBUTION ======================== SRS server: http://www.ebi/srs/srsc NOTE: Selecting this option will bring you to the SRS qerry interface page, where you have to select "search Sequence Libraries" WWW server: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/ FTP server: ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/imgt E_MAIL server: email netserv@ebi.ac.uk -- send "help IMGT" in the mail body. This database is available on CD-ROM as an acompanying database to the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database at nominal cost. ======================================================================= Ansar Malik Ph.D | Email:Malik@ebi.ac.uk EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute | URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk Hinxton Hall, Hinxton | Tel: +44 (1223) 494417 Cambridge CB10 1RQ, UK | Fax: +44 (1223) 494968 ======================================================================== From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 19 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ix.netcom.com!compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Ming Soo <110025.1742@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Subject: \,WE ARE ACCEPTING NEW WRITERS Date: 19 Mar 1997 22:26:44 GMT Organization: teehoo Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5gpp74$g0n$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.embldatabank:790 bionet.molbio.evolution:5780 bionet.molbio.gdb:595 We**are now accepting new & previously published* writers for publication. We have 3 offices/ 2 in *New York / the other in *Florida**. For ALL fiction & nonfiction/ send brief digest/ first chapter/ include a self addressed, stamped envelope: *S.A.S.E.* Poetry: send 3 poems/ *S.A.S.E. Short Stories: send brief *synopsis/ 3 pages/ *S.A.S.E. Do not send complete manuscript* unless invited to do so. *We are also accepting screenplays for TV/ Movies/ Please follow guidelines as for fiction and nonfiction. >*NYC AGENCY== >*33-29 58 Street== >*Woodside, NY 11377=- >*(718)651-8145== From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 19 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!news From: "C. J. Fields" Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Subject: Re: \,WE ARE ACCEPTING NEW WRITERS Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:31:24 -0600 Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3330F5DC.2282@gab.unt.edu> References: <5gpp74$g0n$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Reply-To: cfields@gab.unt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: den1-4-17.dialup.unt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.embldatabank:791 bionet.molbio.evolution:5782 bionet.molbio.gdb:596 Ming Soo wrote: > > We**are now accepting new & previously published* > writers for publication. We have 3 offices/ 2 in *New York / > the other in *Florida**. For ALL fiction & nonfiction/ > send brief digest/ first chapter/ include a self > addressed, stamped envelope: *S.A.S.E.* > Poetry: send 3 poems/ *S.A.S.E. > Short Stories: send brief *synopsis/ 3 pages/ *S.A.S.E. > Do not send complete manuscript* unless invited to do so. > > *We are also accepting screenplays for TV/ Movies/ > Please follow guidelines as for fiction and nonfiction. > >*NYC AGENCY== > >*33-29 58 Street== > >*Woodside, NY 11377=- > >*(718)651-8145== DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POST. THIS IS A SHAM! FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT MY EMAIL ABOUT THIS. INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HARMED BY RESPONDING TO THE WOODSIDE LITERARY AGENCY. -- C. J. Fields Graduate Student, Dept. of Biological Sciences The University of North Texas Denton, TX email : (cfields@gab.unt.edu) From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Thu Mar 20 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!194.179.1.100!minerva.ibernet.es!diana.ibernet.es!not-for-mail From: "Ignacio J. 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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 22:22:43 -0600 Organization: Olivet Nazarene University Lines: 108 Message-ID: <332F6A12.2731@eggbeater.olivet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: r330a.chapman.olivet.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Dear Internet User, By now you've probably heard about the current issues pertaining to free speech and the regulation of Internet related materials. We, The Internet Regulatory Survey Team (IRST), are conducting a survey/study pertaining to these issues and are interested in your opinions. We are sending along a small 16 question survey that should take no more than five minutes of your time to complete. We ask for your participation in this study and provide us with your information. Your response will be completely anonymous. 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