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Information for AMYLOID/bionet.neuroscience.amyloid

USENET newsgroup name:  bionet.neuroscience.amyloid

Status:                 Moderated

One line Description:   Research on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

Moderation address:	bionet-neuroscience-amyloid@net.bio.net
			(amyloid-moderator@net.bio.net is an alias for
			 bionet-neuroscience-amyloid@net.bio.net)

Moderator:		David Small

Mailing list name:	AMYLOID

E-mail address:		amyloid@net.bio.net

Newsgroup charter:

The aim of the newsgroup is to be a discussion forum for researchers
on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders ( including prion
diseases).  The newsgroup is only intended to be for the use of people
**actively** working in the field of dementia research.  Areas covered
include the biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology of
amyloidogenesis, the epidemiology and clinical features of Alzheimer's
disease, scrapie, CJD etc.

Material which would be welcome for posting includes: 1) the
advertisement of scientific conferences, 2) questions of a technical
or scientific nature.  Postings related to issues of carer support,
ageing (in general, i.e., not dementia related) and advertisement of
commercial products should not be made on this mailing list.

Moderation Policy: Mass-posted commercial messages, chain letters, and
similar postings not germane to the charter will be deleted without
comment. Inappropriate messages posted in good faith will be returned
to the sender.  Messages not strictly within the charter but likely to
be of interest to many subscribers will be accepted.  Use of the
newsgroup for commercial purposes is prohibited.

David Small
david_small@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au