From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri May 10 09:09:54 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA19855; Fri, 10 May 1996 02:00:54 -0700 Received: (from biohelp@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA19796; Fri, 10 May 1996 02:00:30 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 02:00:30 -0700 From: BIOSCI Administrator Message-Id: <199605100900.CAA19796@net.bio.net> To: rust-mil@net.bio.net Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! BIOSCI is about halfway to its funding goal!! I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We are only about halfway to our funding goal and need to raise further funds to avoid having to curtail services at net.bio.net. Fundraising is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines, hardware maintenance (we will be getting newer and faster hardware soon!), plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and "vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Please contact us for further details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5500 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100 unique hosts per week Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html, visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html, visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week. EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 800 unique hosts per week. Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html, visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week. Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS- REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350 unique hosts per week. Ads can also be displayed on various combinations of other BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Please contact us at biosci-help@net.bio.net for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu May 16 01:42:20 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA02689; Thu, 16 May 1996 01:42:20 -0700 Received: from sun2.mhs-relay.ac.uk (sun2.mhs-relay.ac.uk [128.86.8.35]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA02683; Thu, 16 May 1996 01:42:16 -0700 X400-Received: by mta sun2.mhs-relay.ac.uk in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 16 May 1996 09:38:32 +0100 X400-Received: by mta JIIS.MUAS in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:35:13 +0100 X400-Received: by mta JIIS in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:35:14 +0100 X400-Received: by mta arcs.bbsrc.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:40:12 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; converted (ia5 text (2)); Relayed; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:37:39 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:37:39 +0100 X400-Originator: james.brown@bbsrc.ac.uk X400-Recipients: rust-mil@net.bio.net X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;0913350916051996/A64039/JIIS] X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) Content-Identifier: 11A582630C00 From: James Brown Message-ID: <0913350916051996/A64039/JIIS/11A582630C00*@MHS> To: Rust-mildew (Non Receipt Notification Requested) Subject: Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line Sensitivity: Private British Society for Plant Pathology MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY ON-LINE The British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) has developed an exciting new way to publish research in molecular plant pathology and nematology - the electronic journal Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line (MPPOL). MPPOL is: - Peer-reviewed - through BSPP - Fast - saving the months normally taken to print, bind and distribute on paper - Accessible - at the desk or bench, straight from the Internet - Convenient - search, browse, view, print or download, any time - Free - BSPP bears the modest costs, as a service to international plant pathology - Versatile - colour illustrations are encouraged; movies and sound bites are welcome What you need to use MPPOL: - A PC, Mac or Workstation connected to the Internet - even connect at home by telephone - A World Wide Web browser - e.g. Netscape, MS Explorer, Mosaic Start now at http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol. You will find: - Full details of MPPOL - International list of editors - Information for authors To submit a paper - E-mail your script to us (or send it on disk) * - You receive an acknowledgement by e-mail - Your script is assigned to an editor - Peer-review starts, by e-mail - Your editor and you correspond by e-mail - Your editor recommends the agreed script to the Senior Editors - The Senior Editors confer, and your script is published in MPPOL * Use the specified format (http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol/prospect.htm) E-mail address: cc08@dial.pipex.com. Postal address: Dr Debra Whitehead, MPPOL, The Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, UK. Respond quickly to the review, and help us meet our target: - 7 WEEKS FROM RECEIPT OF SCRIPT TO REACHING YOUR READERS Abbreviated list of Editors of MPPOL: - Dr John Antoniw, Dr James Brown, Dr David Cooke, Dr Matt Dickinson, Professor Adrian Gibbs, Dr Henriette Giese, Professor Zhou GuangHe, Dr C. Hiruki, Dr Wolfgang Knogge, Dr Joe McDermott, Dr Bruce McDonald, Dr Adrian Newton (Senior Editor), Dr Kevin O'Donnell, Dr Anne Osbourn, Professor Tapio Palva, Dr Tom Powers, Dr Peter Scott (Senior Editor), Dr Ichiro Uyeda, Professor Mike Wilson, Dr Debra Whitehead (Senior Editor). More details about MPPOL or BSPP? - Check our World Wide Web site at http://www.bspp.org.uk - Contact the BSPP Membership Secretary: Dr Adrian Newton Scottish Crop Research Institute Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK E-mail: a.newton@scri.sari.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1382 562426 Thank you for reading this message from the BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PLANT PATHOLOGY James Brown _______________________________________________________ Dr J. K. M. Brown, Cereals Research Department, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UH, England Phone: (+44)(0) 1603 452571. Fax: (+44)(0) 1603 502241. E-mail: james.brown@bbsrc.ac.uk From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon May 20 14:18:47 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA11652; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:18:47 -0700 Received: from bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu (bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu [139.78.212.37]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA11645; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:18:45 -0700 Received: from 139.78.221.62 by bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1b6); Mon, 20 May 1996 16:14:53 -0400 Message-ID: <31A08D7C.64FB@vms.ucc.okstate.edu> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 16:19:24 +0100 From: "Rolf A. Prade" Reply-To: prade@vms.ucc.okstate.edu Organization: Oklahoma State University X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rust-mil@net.bio.net Subject: Visit The First Fungal Genome Workshop HP X-URL: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/RUST-MILDEW/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1st FGW The First Fungal Genome Workshop Stillwater, OK - August 19 & 20 Program and Registration http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/micro/ffgw/ffgw.htm ---*--- From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon May 27 13:26:17 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA29389; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:26:17 -0700 Received: from bfc.phillyiww.org ([206.161.88.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA29381; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:26:11 -0700 From: blink@phillyiww.org Received: by bfc.phillyiww.org id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Mon, 27 May 96 15:22 EST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 27 May 96 15:22 EST To: Rust-mil@net.bio.net X-URL: mailto:Rust-mil@net.bio.net X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2-4-2 X-Personal_name: ROBERT HAYES Subject: mailto:Rust-mil@net.bio.net sub Rust-mil blink@phillyiww.org sub Rust-mil-l blink@phillyiww.org thanks From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu May 30 09:57:26 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA02800; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:57:26 -0700 Received: from typhoon.dial.pipex.net (typhoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.46]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA02796; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:57:22 -0700 Received: from aj153.du.pipex.com by typhoon.dial.pipex.net (8.7.4/) id RAA13228; Thu, 30 May 1996 17:54:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <31ADD32A.124E@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:56:10 +0100 From: Debra Whitehead X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rust-mil@net.bio.net Subject: MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY ON-LINE X-URL: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/RUST-MILDEW/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit British Society for Plant Pathology MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY ON-LINE The British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) has developed an exciting new way to publish research in molecular plant pathology and nematology - the electronic journal Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line (MPPOL). MPPOL is: - Peer-reviewed - through BSPP - Fast - saving the months normally taken to print, bind and distribute on paper - Accessible - at the desk or bench, straight from the Internet - Convenient - search, browse, view, print or download, any time - Free - BSPP bears the modest costs, as a service to international plant pathology - Versatile - colour illustrations are encouraged; movies and sound bites are welcome What you need to use MPPOL: - A PC, Mac or Workstation connected to the Internet - even connect at home by telephone - A World Wide Web browser - e.g. Netscape, MS Explorer, Mosaic Start now at http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol. You will find: - Full details of MPPOL - International list of editors - Information for authors To submit a paper - E-mail your script to us (or send it on disk) * - You receive an acknowledgement by e-mail - Your script is assigned to an editor - Peer-review starts, by e-mail - Your editor and you correspond by e-mail - Your editor recommends the agreed script to the Senior Editors - The Senior Editors confer, and your script is published in MPPOL * Use the specified format (http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol/prospect.htm) E-mail address: cc08@dial.pipex.com. Postal address: Dr Debra Whitehead, MPPOL, The Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, UK. Respond quickly to the review, and help us meet our target: - 7 WEEKS FROM RECEIPT OF SCRIPT TO REACHING YOUR READERS Abbreviated list of Editors of MPPOL: - Dr John Antoniw, Dr James Brown, Dr David Cooke, Dr Matt Dickinson, Professor Adrian Gibbs, Dr Henriette Giese, Professor Zhou GuangHe, Dr C. Hiruki, Dr Wolfgang Knogge, Dr Joe McDermott, Dr Bruce McDonald, Dr Adrian Newton (Senior Editor), Dr Kevin O'Donnell, Dr Anne Osbourn, Professor Tapio Palva, Dr Tom Powers, Dr Peter Scott (Senior Editor), Dr Ichiro Uyeda, Professor Mike Wilson, Dr Debra Whitehead (Senior Editor). More details about MPPOL or BSPP? - Check our World Wide Web site at http://www.bspp.org.uk - Contact the BSPP Membership Secretary: Dr Adrian Newton Scottish Crop Research Institute Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK E-mail: a.newton@scri.sari.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1382 562426 Thank you for reading this message from the BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PLANT PATHOLOGY From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri May 31 10:44:53 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA22334; Fri, 31 May 1996 10:44:53 -0700 Received: from mail.unet.umn.edu (mail.unet.umn.edu [128.101.101.103]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA22330; Fri, 31 May 1996 10:44:47 -0700 Received: from puccini.crl.umn.edu by mail.unet.umn.edu (5.65c) id AA21432; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:41:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:42:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199605311742.MAA05746@puccini.crl.umn.edu> Received: from [134.84.228.12] by puccini.crl.umn.edu; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:42:17 -0500 From: "Mark E. Hughes" Reply-To: "Mark E. Hughes" To: rust-mil@net.bio.net Subject: biweekly Cereal Rust Bulletins Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: POPmail 2.3b2 >From April to August each year, the USDA-ARS, Cereal Rust Laboratory, St Paul, MN, issues a biweekly Cereal Rust Bulletin with up-to-date summaries of the development and spread of rust diseases of small grains in the United States. If you are interested, you can receive these bulletins by e-mail or from our web page (http://www.umn.edu/rustlab/). The bulletins often include maps. For e-mail subscribers, we prefer to send the attached maps in the gif graphic format, but we can send the map files in other formats, such as pict, tiff, etc. Some subscribers prefer not to receive the maps because of their difficulties in handling the graphic files. If you would like to receive the bulletins by e-mail, simply send an e-mail message to Mark Hughes (markh@puccini.crl.umn.edu), indicating the graphic format that is best for you or your preference not to receive the maps. If you choose to pick up the bulletins from our web page but would like a short e-mail reminder to let you know when the bulletins are posted on our web page, please send me a message to indicate that. Thank you for your interest. ############################################################################# Mark E. Hughes Internet: markh@puccini.crl.umn.edu USDA-ARS, Cereal Rust Laboratory phone: (612) 625-7295 University of Minnesota fax: (612) 649-5054 1551 Lindig, St Paul, MN 55108 ##############################################################################