Happy New Year to all Annelidans,
The list was rolling along nicely before that (pleasant and rejuvenating I
hope) holiday interruption. Let's see what we can do to gather momentum
again.
I'm eager to see more participation from oligochaete, leech, annelidan-ally
researchers on the list to balance the polychaete dominance so far. I have
had my horizons expanded a little as to what is available via WWW on two of
those groups and can point users to:
http://www.vims.edu/~mes/leech/ (Mark Siddall's Leech pages (index))
http://www.vims.edu/~mes/leech/leechopt.html (Leech life history evolution)
http://www.vims.edu/~mes/mes/leechfigs.html (Leech pictures)
http://www.vims.edu/~mes/leech/hirudinea.html (Class Hirudinea
classification (Mark Siddall))
I can't point to more on oligochaetes just yet, but have been told about a set
of home pages in preparation which should be very useful when published.
A little housekeeping news:
The new BIOSCI/BIONET WWW hypermail archive *does* now include ANNELIDA (it
didn't at first) and should be a very convenient tool for reviewing ANNELIDA
content as there is a searchable index of the full text. It is also now
possible to post a message to ANNELIDA via your WWW browser.
http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/
Please add the above to your WWW 'bookmarks' to replace the gopher link
'gopher://gopher.bio.net:70/11/ANNELIDA'. That is now obsolete. It still
works at present but will probably be removed.
DEEPSEA is now a newsgroup, having somewhat narrowly passed its vote (I
hope Annelidans will be more enthusiastic when our vote is underway).
Should there be any burst of activity in this hitherto lethargic group you
will find it at:
Usenet group: bionet.biology.deepsea
http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/DEEPSEA/
Note that DEEPSEA is moderated whereas ANNELIDA is not. In a moderated list
all mail goes to one person who decides whether or not to release to the
list. While this has advantages in weeding out junk and 'mistakes', there
is a hint of censorship which I am keen to avoid (and I quote "... amateur
or generally uninformative discussion will be eliminated without notice.")
I personally will much prefer to keep ANNELIDA uncontrolled as long as
spontaneity is tempered with sufficient individual restraint and
commonsense, and the volume of 'noise' does not become excessive.
Talking of 'noise' -- I have been told that the lengthy BIOSCI info sheet
you all received last month was accidentally sent to the list as a result
of human error. We will still get the mini-FAQ occasionally.
If you want help with server commands send the word 'help' (without quotes)
in the body of an e-mail to <biosci-server at net.bio.net>. Note that the list
of ANNELIDA subscribers is NOT obtainable.
Handy hint for the day - If you have the least doubt as to what your message
to any list will look like please take the simple step of sending it first to
YOURSELF and nobody else! If the result is nicely formatted (no line
overruns (80 characters max), no unreadable encoding, no strange characters,
etc), you know you are on the way to mastering your e-mail program.
Geoff
--
Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz>
Annelida resources => http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/chaeto/index.html
