From owner-protista@net.bio.net Tue Jul 09 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU!farmer From: farmer@EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: Protozoologists Homepage Date: 10 Jul 1996 05:46:40 -0700 Organization: emlab, UGA Lines: 19 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607101049.GAA17516@emlab.cb.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Society of Protozoologists has finally established a homepage. This page can be reached at: http://www.uga.edu/~protozoa The homepage is still very much in its formative stages so any suggestions and additions would be most welcome. Also please report any problems that you might have. I have tried to keep the page so that it is clear on most computers and programs but if you are having a problem please let me know. Finally, if you did not receive an email message from me last week and would like to be included on the International Listing of Protistologits, please send me an email. Thanks, Mark Farmer Newsletter Editor Society of Protozoologists From owner-protista@net.bio.net Sun Jul 14 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! Date: 15 Jul 1996 02:00:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 154 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607150900.CAA11934@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOSCI is about halfway to its funding goal!! I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We are only about halfway to our funding goal and need to raise further funds to avoid having to curtail services at net.bio.net. Fundraising is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. 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Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. 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. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Please contact us for further details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5500 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. 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Please contact us at biosci-help@net.bio.net for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-protista@net.bio.net Mon Jul 15 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ZOOL.UMD.EDU!GOODE From: GOODE@ZOOL.UMD.EDU ("Dennis Goode") Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: Re: Primetime Protists Date: 16 Jul 1996 12:40:55 -0700 Organization: University of Maryland Zoology Lines: 51 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <132C2831C6F@zool.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Mark, I had the same reaction. Since you bring it up, why don't you draft a letter and let the rest of us suggest aditions or subtractions. Clearly some education is in order. -Dennis > Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA08639; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 05:52:51 -0700 > To: protista@net.bio.net > From: farmer@EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU > Subject: Primetime Protists > Date: 16 Jul 1996 05:52:50 -0700 > Sender: daemon@net.bio.net > Message-ID: <199607161054.GAA01959@emlab.cb.uga.edu> > NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net > X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 0 > > Yesterday I was delighted to open my mailbox and see protists on the > front of a major US magazine. The cover of this month's Scientific > American has a beautiful photograph of Japanese Star Sand, mostly the > foraminiferan (Baculogypsina sphaerulata). Finally, protists had hit the > primetime! > > Imagine then my dismay when I read the article inside and they > referred to foraminiferans as "...microscopic, single-celled > animals.." Animals?? ANIMALS!!! If the editors of one of the most > influential magazines for educating the public about the nature of > science was calling forams "animals", I realized that we have our > work cut out for us. I mean really, thanks to Mark Siddall we've > already lost one phylum of protists this year. Are we destined to > relinquish the foraminiferans too!! > > Does someone more eloquent than I want to draft a letter to the > Editor of Scientific American, or must I take on this windmill > myself? :-) > > > MTC, > > Mark > Mark A. Farmer > Director, Ctr. Ultrastructural Research > University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 > (706)542-4080 Voice (706)542-4271 FAX > farmer@emlab.cb.uga.edu > > (This message is made of 100% recycled electrons) > > From owner-protista@net.bio.net Mon Jul 15 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU!farmer From: farmer@EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: Primetime Protists Date: 16 Jul 1996 05:52:50 -0700 Organization: emlab, UGA Lines: 30 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607161054.GAA01959@emlab.cb.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Yesterday I was delighted to open my mailbox and see protists on the front of a major US magazine. The cover of this month's Scientific American has a beautiful photograph of Japanese Star Sand, mostly the foraminiferan (Baculogypsina sphaerulata). Finally, protists had hit the primetime! Imagine then my dismay when I read the article inside and they referred to foraminiferans as "...microscopic, single-celled animals.." Animals?? ANIMALS!!! If the editors of one of the most influential magazines for educating the public about the nature of science was calling forams "animals", I realized that we have our work cut out for us. I mean really, thanks to Mark Siddall we've already lost one phylum of protists this year. Are we destined to relinquish the foraminiferans too!! Does someone more eloquent than I want to draft a letter to the Editor of Scientific American, or must I take on this windmill myself? :-) MTC, Mark Mark A. Farmer Director, Ctr. Ultrastructural Research University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 (706)542-4080 Voice (706)542-4271 FAX farmer@emlab.cb.uga.edu (This message is made of 100% recycled electrons) From owner-protista@net.bio.net Tue Jul 16 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!feed.umontreal.ca!megasun.BCH.UMontreal.CA!okellyc From: okellyc@megasun.BCH.UMontreal.CA (Charles J. O'Kelly) Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: Re: Primetime Protists Followup-To: bionet.protista Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:31:13 GMT Organization: University of Montreal / Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences Lines: 45 Sender: Charles J. O'Kelly (okellyc@bch.umontreal.ca) Distribution: world Expires: 1 August 1996 Message-ID: <4simeh$s1a@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <199607161054.GAA01959@emlab.cb.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: megasun.bch.umontreal.ca Summary: why a letter when an article will do ... In article <199607161054.GAA01959@emlab.cb.uga.edu> farmer@EMLAB.CB.UGA.EDU writes: >Yesterday I was delighted to open my mailbox and see protists on the >front of a major US magazine. > >Imagine then my dismay when I read the article inside and they >referred to foraminiferans as "...microscopic, single-celled >animals.." Animals?? ANIMALS!!! If the editors of one of the most >influential magazines for educating the public about the nature of >science was calling forams "animals", I realized that we have our >work cut out for us. since most biologists outside the protist community either know nothing about or misunderstand the current debates about protist systematics, I can hardly expect non-biologist professional writers/editors to grasp the concepts ... unless we tell them! besides, under some definitions, Sci. Am. is right. (example: group contains ancestor and all descendants, ancestor is the first mitochondrial eukaryote, first mitochondrial eukaryote is treated as an animal, ergo all protists are animals - of course, by this definition, coconuts are animals too :-) ) >Does someone more eloquent than I want to draft a letter to the >Editor of Scientific American suggestion: craft any letter in the context of a story opportunity. "Protistologists Reshape the Trunk of the Tree of Life". or something like that. might get a far more sympathetic hearing than a complaint ... but be prepared to hear a request from Sci. Am. for authors, story outline, deadline. pack of work, but why not take the chance of raising ye olde profile? and I'm not just addressing Mark here :-) best, charley =============== Charles J. O'Kelly Mad Protistologist okellyc@bch.umontreal.ca http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/cjocv.html From owner-protista@net.bio.net Tue Jul 23 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.merck.com!mrlnews From: "Mark S. Galinski, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: test: do not read Date: 24 Jul 1996 15:38:19 GMT Organization: Merck & Co., Inc. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4t5g1b$e2l@merck.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit test The contents of this message express only the sender's opinion. This message does not necessarily reflect the policy or views of my employer, Merck & Co., Inc. All responsibility for the statements made in this Usenet posting resides solely and completely with the sender. From owner-protista@net.bio.net Wed Jul 24 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!pop.gnn.com!DGrenier From: DGrenier@gnn.com (Dave Grenier) Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: FS: Nikon microscope Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:52:11 Organization: GNN Lines: 18 Sender: DGrenier@gnn.com (Dale Grenier) (from 24-127.client.gnn.com. 205.188.24.127) Message-ID: <4t6o5c$jat@news-e2b.gnn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-127.client.gnn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-GNN-NewsServer-Posting-Date: 25 Jul 1996 03:03:08 GMT X-Mailer: GNNmessenger 1.3 Older (black finish) model "Ske" with the following: Monocular head w/10x eyepiece, photo tube and projection lens Binocular head (newer model w/off-white enamel finish) w/10x eyepieces 4, 10, 40 and 100x objective lenses (100x is phase contrast and not much use) Abbe condenser Power supply Hard carrying case for 'scope (clasps no longer function) Microscope is in very good condition overall. Good for student use. It will accept current Nikon (and other manufacturer) objective lenses. First offer of $1100 US will take it (I will pay postage). Send your best offer to the above e-mail address (active until 8/8/96), or call me at (360) 412-1139 6-9 PM Pacific time any day. Dave Grenier From owner-protista@net.bio.net Thu Jul 25 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!aol.com!Judy13W From: Judy13W@aol.com Newsgroups: bionet.protista Subject: Eugene E. Jones Date: 25 Jul 1996 22:13:58 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <960726011334_370303606@emout07.mail.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net To the protist discussion group, I wrote to Mark Farmer, the Director of the Center for Ultrastructural Research at the University of Georgia in Athens and he suggested I post a notice with your group. I'm not sure how to do this but here is the problem. I am trying to find a Eugene E. Jones who was or is a college professor in Georgia. His field of interest was protozoology and he taught at a small college in the Athens area that was taken over by a larger school. He was married and had 3 kids many years ago. It is very important that I find him and if anyone has any information that might help, I will by glad to tell them the rest of the story. My name, address, and phone numbers are as follows: Judy Wallace Rt. 1 Box 10-B-1 Eastsound, Wa. 98245 360-376-4294 home 360-376-2127 work days mon-fri Either number would be great to call collect, no problem, it really is important if anyone can help, thank you very much.