Information for EMF-BIO/bionet.emf-bio          (MODERATED)

USENET name:        bionet.emf-bio

Description:  	    Interactions of EM fields with biological systems.

Newsgroup Status:   moderated

Moderation address: emf-bio-moderator@net.bio.net
                    (bionet-emf-bio@net.bio.net is an alias for the above)

Moderator:          Allan H. Frey

Mailing list name:  EMF-BIO

e-mail address:     emf-bio@net.bio.net

Charter and moderation policy:

The purpose of the Newsgroup is to provide a means of easy
communication among people doing research in or interested
in electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems.
It also provides the general biological community with a
window into a field which has broad implications for biology.

The Newsgroup is primarily for discussions among bioscientists.
Lay people interested in hazards should contact the appropriate
groups for such information such as the National EMR
Alliance (212-554-4073).  Those interested in arguing about
hazards, which is a policy issue, have other forums where
discussions of hazard policy issues are appropriate.

The Newsgroup can be used for activities such as discussion of books, 
articles, methods and experiments. Theories can be debated and the 
validity of experiments and approaches can be discussed.  Important new 
findings can be announced.   Users can pose questions on techniques to be 
used in experiments and seek solutions for problems they have 
encountered in experiments.  A preprint of a paper can be posted for 
comment before sending it in for publication or starting the next 
experiment.  Journal editors and scientists can post abstracts of papers 
accepted for publication.  Announcements of funding for new programs and
jobs can be posted. 

The newsgroup is moderated, but the bounds of the charter are loose. Only 
the clearly inappropriate messages as defined by the charter will not 
appear. 

Allan H. Frey (afrey@uunet.uu.net)