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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. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Oct 15 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!gt743 From: gt743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John F. Shea) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Site for grain beetle/tapeworm survey? Date: 16 Oct 1997 18:33:13 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <625ml9$oka@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: gt743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John F. Shea) NNTP-Posting-Host: owl.ins.cwru.edu Hi, I'm a first year grad student who is trying to figure out my research project. I would like to do a survey of grain beetles (Tenebrio Molitor) and see how many are infected with the tapeworm Hymenolepsis diminuta. I know the beetles like to inhabit graineries (along with the definitive host of the tapeworm, the rat). However, my advisor has had difficulty convincing the owners of these graineries that he is a zoologist and not the health inspector. Thus, he has been unable to do any sort of collection/survey in these places. Does anyone have any ideas how I could get around this? Does anyone know of a site where the beetles, the rats and the tapeworm occur together? Preferably in the Midwest? -John Shea OSU: Dept of Zoology From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Oct 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cns-cas From: cns-cas@CNS.BU.EDU (Boston University - Cognitive and Neural Systems) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - 2nd International COnference on CNS Date: 22 Oct 1997 10:43:52 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 213 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971022133716.0109b4cc@cns.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS May 27-30, 1998 Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems with financial support from DARPA and ONR http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/ HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR? HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE? The conference will include invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Abstract submissions encourage submissions of the latest results. Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of meeting handouts and social events. Although Memorial Day falls on Saturday, May 30, it is observed on Monday, May 25, 1998. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS TUTORIALS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1998 (to be announced) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Stephen Grossberg, Adaptive resonance theory: From biology to technology Ken Nakayama, Psychological studies of visual attention INVITED SPEAKERS: THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1998: Azriel Rosenfeld, Understanding object motion Takeo Kanade, Computational sensors: Further progress Tomaso Poggio, Sparse representations for learning Gail Carpenter, Applications of ART neural networks Rodney Brooks, Experiments in development models for a neurally controlled humanoid robot Lee Feldkamp, Recurrent networks: Promise and practice FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1998: J. Anthony Movshon, Contrast gain control in the visual cortex Hugh Wilson, Global processes at intermediate levels of form vision Mel Goodale, Biological teleassistance: Perception and action in the human visual system Ken Stevens, The categorical representation of speech and its traces in acoustics and articulation Carol Fowler, Production-perception links in speech Frank Guenther, A theoretical framework for speech acquisition and production SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1998: Howard Eichenbaum, The hippocampus and mechanisms of declarative memory Earl Miller, Neural mechanisms for working memory and cognition Bruce McNaughton, Neuronal population dynamics and the interpretation of dreams Richard Thompson, The cerebellar circuitry essential for classical conditioning of discrete behavioral responses Daniel Bullock, Cortical control of arm movements Andrew Barto, Reinforcement learning applied to large-scale dynamic optimization problems There will be contributed oral and poster sessions on each day of the conference. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Contributors are requested to list a first and second choice from among the topics below in their cover letter, and to say whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work, when they submit their abstract, as described below. vision spatial mapping and navigation object recognition neural circuit models image understanding neural system models audition mathematics of neural systems speech and language robotics unsupervised learning neuromorphic VLSI supervised learning hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) reinforcement and emotion industrial applications cognition, planning, and other attention Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system models (B). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Contributed Abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 28, 1998. A meeting registration fee of $45 for regular attendees and $30 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until April 15, 1998. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address; and preference for oral or poster presentation. (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to the address above. If paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or email to cindy@cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows are available to cover meeting travel and living costs. The deadline to apply for fellowship support is January 31, 1998. Applicants will be notified by February 28, 1998. Each application should include the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address; current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address, and email address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor on official institutional stationery should accompany the application and summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Students who also submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee with their Abstract. Reimbursement checks will be distributed after the meeting. ________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION FORM Second International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University, 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 27, 1998, Meeting: May 28-30, 1998 FAX: (617) 353-7755 (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: __________________________________________________ Name: ___________________________________________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: _______________________________________ Phone and Fax: __________________________________________________ Email: _________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. CHECK ONE: ( ) 70 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) ( ) 45 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) ( ) 45 Conference Only (Regular) ( ) 30 Conference Only (Student) ( ) 25 Tutorial Only (Regular) ( ) 15 Tutorial Only (Student) Method of Payment: (Please FAX or mail) [ ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. [ ] I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Name as it appears on the card: __________________________________ Type of card: _____________ Account number: ______________________ Signature: ____________________________ Expiration date: _________ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Oct 28 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!xfer.kren.nm.kr!newsfeed.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!not-for-mail From: HanJeong Lee Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: population control Date: 29 Oct 1997 07:37:32 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Lines: 17 Message-ID: <636p3s$8uf$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> NNTP-Posting-Host: soback.kornet.nm.kr X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970709; sun4d SunOS 5.5.1] population explosion is the biggest problem which planet earth is facing now and this problem is not being properly addressed.what is the optimal population size of the world? what kind of treaty every nation should sign to control it's population and the world's population?could there exist such treaty as treaty on density? we are running out of some valuable resources which are main stay of this civilization and we are destroying this palnet's ecosystem without knowing the disasters which will ensue.I dare put forward control of population quality as a partial solution to population growth which is pursued in a fashion of quantity race. it has long been criticized as a nazi practice. but the message carried by nazis has tint of devine will of god. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Oct 28 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!nobody From: nobody@nowhere.org (Fang Wei Ling) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Contemporary Rate of Species Extinction Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:20:04 -0700 Organization: On The Road Lines: 26 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: stl-mo5-22.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Oct 29 8:17:38 AM PST 1997 X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 I've just come back from a visit to the St. Louis Zoo, where one of the exhibits involves some software that lists cumulative statistics on such things as species extinction, pollutants released into the environment, etc., since the day the viewer was born. In my case, born in 1960, the software claimed that some 156,000 species have become extinct during my lifetime. This averages out to something like 11 per day, which is astonishing, if true. My question is just how these numbers were derived. Are there actually enough field biologists on the planet to note the extinction of eleven species every day? That is, are these extinctions documented, or is this just some kind of computer model? If there actually is documentation, where would be the best place to find this information -- the actual classifications of the extinct species? If it's just a statistical model, what is it based upon? I find the numbers overwhelming, and want to know more. Thank you, FWL -- Note the bogus E-mail address. Junk E-mail has cost me too much time and money, so I no longer make my address public. In the US, contact your government representatives about support for HR 1748, a bill to regulate unsolicited commercial E-mail. 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