CALL FOR VOTES: PHOTOSYNTHESIS/bionet.photosynthesis

[David Kristofferson]

Voting is now open on PHOTOSYNTHESIS/bionet.photosynthesis.  The
revised charter for PHOTOSYNTHESIS/bionet.photosynthesis is provided
below.  The only change involved lengthening the name from photosyn to
photosynthesis (except in the mailing address).

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Proposal to establish PHOTOSYNTHESIS/bionet.photosynthesis:

E-mail address: photosyn at net.bio.net
                photosyn at daresbury.ac.uk

Discussion leader:  Jonathan B. Marder
   Internet: MARDER at AGRI.HUJI.AC.IL |      Department of Agricultural Botany
   Bitnet:   MARDER at HUJIAGRI        | /\/  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   Phone:    (08 or +9728) 481918   |/  \  Faculty of Agriculture
   Fax:      (08 or +9728) 467763   /      P.O.Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL

The Photosynthesis Researchers' newsgroup will serve the interests of
professionals and students involved in all aspects of Photosynthesis
research.  This service has until now been provided by a distribution list
(PHOTOSYN at VM.TAU.AC.IL).

Here are some examples of use of the list:-

- Requests for technical information regarding protocols, materials,
  equipment, etc., used for photosynthesis-related research.

- Advertisement of academic positions and requests for employment
  (including postdoctoral positions, studentships, etc.)

- Distribution of photosynthesis-related journal listings
  Full listings:- Photosynthesis Research, Plant and Cell Physiology,
                  Photosynthetica, BBA (Bioenergetics section).
  Extracts     :- By a keyword search of bionet.journals

- Announcement of scientific meetings.

- Other assorted announcements
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Voting is now open on PHOTOSYNTHESIS/bionet.photosynthesis and will
run through 24:00 hrs Pacific Time on 25 April 1993.  Please send your
vote to either of the following addresses:

Address                               Location        Network
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biovote at daresbury.ac.uk               U.K.            JANET
biovote at net.bio.net                   U.S.A.          Internet/BITNET

PLEASE BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE FORMAT BELOW - WE OFTEN RUN MORE THAN ONE
VOTE AT A TIME SO A SIMPLE "YES" OR "NO" MESSAGE WITHOUT THE NEWSGROUP
NAME MAY BE AMBIGUOUS.  Your vote should contain a single line:

YES on PHOTOSYNTHESIS

if you favor creation of the newsgroup or

NO on PHOTOSYNTHESIS

if you think that the creation of this newsgroup will adversely affect
the BIOSCI system.  If you are simply not interested in participating
in this newsgroup, please don't cast a NO vote, but instead just don't
vote at all.

The newsgroup proposal must receive at least 80 YES votes to pass and
the number of YES votes must be greater than the number of NO votes by
at least 40.  Discussion of the newsgroup proposal is now closed and
we strongly discourage posting any messages in other forums about the
fact that a CALL FOR VOTES has been issued.  Permission has been
granted to post this note to the current PHOTOSYN mailing list.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIOSCI/bionet Manager

				kristoff at net.bio.net