This is to announce the availablity of a new news server to cater for the needs of the
systems biology community. At the moment only one group has been created and that
is:
sysbio.discussion
The reason for creating this news server is to avoid much of the spam now present on
usenet and to allow greater flexibiliy in the choice of groups.
You can access this news server at the fixed ip address of
131.215.183.117
Server port number at 119 (usual default)
Perhaps at some time later, the raw ip addres might be replaced with a domain name,
for the moment is just the number!
For example, to access this news server from Outlook Express go to Tools, access
the Accounts.. menu item, pick the Add button, select News and follow the instructions,
when asked to input the NNTP srever, enter the above ip address.
Alternatively go to http://www.sys-bio.org and simply select the newgroup link at the top-left hand
corner of the page.
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I have tentatively also considered forming the following groups:
sysbio.announce
sysbio.bionetworks
sysbio.metabolic-reg
sysbio.sbml
sysbio.software
sysbio.experimental
If you have any comments on these groups, for example you would like more specific groups
created, names changed, or even some of the suggested groups removed, then please send comments for discussion
to sysbio.discussion
Discussion on this matter will proceed for one week, after which, if there aren't any issues, these
groups, and any other popular requests, will be created.
I've made the suggested groups quite generic (except perhaps for the sbml group). This is so, that
at least initially, discussions aren't spread out too thinly. If a need arises for further more specific
groups then do please voice your suggestions.
metabolic-reg is suggested to follow on from the same usenet group. The bionetworks group
is aimed at being more general and not, as metabolic-reg implies, be confined to discussions
relating to metabolic pathways (many people make a distinction so best be safe). We could of course
dispense entirely with metabolic-reg and simply have bionetworks or something similar. Others may
have different views on this, including the naming 'bionetworks' etc, please do voice
any opinions on these matters.
Any problems, please get in touch with hsauro at cds.caltech.edu
regards
Herbert Sauro
Caltech
