From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Thu May 01 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: OLIVER KOMAR Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Congreso en Tegucigalpa, 23-27 junio 1997 Date: 2 May 1997 09:28:27 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 142 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <5kd4nb$49i@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net RE: CONGRESO EN TEGUCIGALPA, 23-27 DE JUNIO DE 1997 Estimados colegas: Les solicitamos a ustedes que nos ayuden a informar a colegas biologos o conservacionistas a traves de Mesoamerica o a quienes hacen investigaciones o trabajan en la region mesoamericana, de la siguiente informacion. Muchas gracias. * * * * Dear Colleagues: (Please pass this message on to appropriate colleagues) We request your help in informing biologist or conservationist colleagues throughout Mesoamerica (or who conduct research or work in the region) about the following information. Thank you very much. [note: if you would like to receive an English version of the following announcement, please reply to Oliver Komar at e-mail ookomar@cc.owu.edu] ******************************************** EL PRIMER CONGRESO DE LA SOCIEDAD MESOAMERICANA PARA LA BIOLOGIA Y LA CONSERVACION, 23-27 JUNIO 1997. El Primer Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biologia y la Conservacion se llevara a cabo del 23 al 27 de junio de 1997, en la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Centroamerica. El programa incluye los siguientes simposios y talleres: * Declinaciones de las Poblaciones de Anfibios Mesoamericanos & Taller sobre Programas de su Monitoreo Organizado por Erik Lindquist, Dept. of Zoology, Ohio State University, Tel, 614-487-1980, fax 614-292-2030, e-mail lindquist.7@osu.edu * Taller sobre Fuentes y Mecanismos de Financiamiento para Programas de Conservacion. Organizado por Jim Barborak, The Wildlife Conservation Society, Gainesville, FL (USA), tel 352-371-1713, fax 352-373-6443, e-mail wcsfl@afn.org * Corredores Conservacionistas Organizado por Dr. Archie Carr III y Jim Barborak, The Wildlife Conservation Society, Gainesville, FL (USA), tel 352-371-1713, fax 352-373-6443, e-mail wcsfl@afn.org *Incorporando la Caceria de Subsistencia y las Cosechas Sostenidas en el Manejo de Vida Silvestre Organizado por Teresa Zun~iga, Amigos de la Tierra, Managua, Nicaragua, fax 505-222-7815, e-mail atenic@nicarao.apc.org *Taller sobre Ecologia y Manejo Sostenible de Aves Migratorias y Residentes en los Humedales en el Sur de Honduras Organizado por Dra. Becky Myton, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, tel 504-32-2110, ext. 170; fax 504-33-2210, e-mail bmyton@ns.unah.hondunet.net Estan programadas numerosas sesiones de ponencias abiertas o libres en donde exposiciones biologicas y de proyectos de conservacion pueden ser expuestas. Ademas habran una sala de carteles (posters). Resumenes deben ser entregados antes del *** 23 de MAYO de 1997 *** al coordinador del programa cientifico, Gustavo Adolfo Ruiz, Amigos de la Tierra, Apdo. T-55, Managua, Nicaragua, fax 505-222-7815, e-mail atenic@nicarao.apc.org. Instrucciones completas estan disponible sobre el internet, en la direccion http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/borror/mesoamericana.html Para informacion de registracion y logistica consultarse con la direccion del internet dado por lo anterior, o contactarse con Gerardo Borjas, coordinador del comite organizativo local y presidente de la Sociedad, en Apdo. 30-357, Toncontin, Tegucigalpa, M D C, Honduras, tel. (504) 33-9576, e-mail gborjas@ns.unah.hondunet.net. Ademas, copias en papel del Paquete y Formulario de Inscripcion para el Congreso, que incluye tambien el formulario oficial del resumen, pueden ser solicitado antes del 10 de mayo de Oliver Komar, Editor, Mesoamericana, Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware OH (USA) 43015, tel 614-369-0175, fax 614-368-3999, e-mail ookomar@cc.owu.edu. Inscripcion en el congreso es GRATIS para miembros de la Sociedad (ver informacion a continuacion sobre la membresia), si se inscriben al congreso antes del 23 de mayo de 1997. Para los que se inscriben tarde, hay un costo de $6 para profesionales y $3 para estudiantes. El costo es mayor ($40/$20) si se inscriben al llegar al congreso. Habra un banquete la noche de 23 de junio con costo adicional de US $25. Deben inscribir antes del 23 de mayo de 1997 para reservar una plaza en el banquete. *************************** La SOCIEDAD MESOAMERICANA PARA LA BIOLOGIA Y LA CONSERVACION existe para servir a profesionales trabajando y viviendo en la region mesoamericana (todo Centroamerica y Mexico). Dentro de las metas de la Sociedad son auspiciar un congreso anual, y publicar un boletin de noticias y otra informacion valiosa que se llama Mesoamericana. La mision es promover el intercambio de informacion, la investigacion y su difusion al servicio de la conservacion biologica y cultural en Mesoamerica. La Sociedad fue fundado en enero de 1996. LA MEMBRESIA La Sociedad cuenta con mayor de 50 miembros fundadores, y 100 miembros regulares. La membresia incluye asistencia gratis en el congreso anual, mantenerse informado como parte de la comunidad cientifica y conservacionista de la region mesoamericana, a traves de una subscripcion a Mesoamericana, el boletin oficial de la Sociedad, que es trimestral. Para tramitar la membresia, enviar un cheque o pago equivalente al enlace indicado. Las categorias de membresia son (con costo anual, en U.S. dolares): Membresia regular (residentes de la region): $ 10 Membresia de apoyo (individuos fuera de la region): $ 20 Membresia estudiantil (estudiantes de la region): $ 5 Membresia institucional (organizaciones de la region): $ 20 Membresia Institucional extranjera (organizaciones fuera de la region): $ 40 Miembro Fundador (individuos dentro o fuera de la region) $ 50 Fundador Institucional (organizaciones dentro de la region): $ 100 Fundador Institucional Extranjero (organizaciones fuera de la region): $200 Miembro Benefactor (individuo/institucion que desee colaborar con la mision y objetivos de la Sociedad): $ 200 Los Enlaces Nacionales: Honduras y paises no representados: Gerardo Borjas, President, Apdo. 30-357, Toncontin, Tegucigalpa MDC, Honduras tel: 504-33-9576 (e-mail: gborjas@ns.unah.hondunet.net) Belice: Bruce & Carolyn Miller, Gallon Jug, Belize (e-mail: galljug@btl.net) El Salvador: Juan Pablo Dominguez, Colonia Costa Rica, Calle Juan Mora #432, San Salvador. Tel. 503-270-0320 Nicaragua: Teresa Zun~iga, Apdo. Postal A-171, Managua, Nicaragua, C.A. (e-mail: atenic@nicarao.apc.org) U.S.A.: Oliver Komar, Dept. of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware OH 43015 USA (e-mail ookomar@cc.owu.edu) ******************************************************* FIN/END From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Wed May 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: David Kristofferson Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI moving to Stanford! Date: 22 May 1997 05:02:46 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 56 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m1cl6$qe7@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net After more than a decade of serving the biology community on the BIOSCI project, I have decided that it is time for me to pass the torch. The demands of my career and family are making it increasingly difficult for me to run BIOSCI adequately on a part-time basis, and I've decided that I would do the project more harm than good by clinging to it. Therefore I have concluded an agreement with the Stanford University Libraries to take over the management of the BIOSCI project effective 6 June 1997. Many of you know the work of the Stanford Libraries through HighWire Press which has done an excellent job bringing the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science Magazine, and other prestigious journals to the WWW (see http://highwire.stanford.edu/). I have every confidence that Stanford will provide an environment where the BIOSCI project can flourish. The BIOSCI team at Daresbury will continue to support the project in Europe, and Dave Mack and Julie Lawrence on the current BIOSCI staff will continue to assist the new team at Stanford. The project will be managed by Serge Taylor of the Stanford Libraries who is responsible for developing Web-based "knowledge environments" for scientists. I will still participate with the project in an advisory capacity but have to phase myself out of day-to-day operations. Many of you who read bionet.announce, bionet.biology.computational, and bionet.jobs.offered (the groups that I moderate) have been aware of the recent posting delays that my busy schedule has inflicted on those newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that Todd McGee, Scientific Advisor of the HighWire Press, will be taking over moderation of those groups from me this week. ** NOTE ** - The BIOSCI hardware will be down for backups on 6 June and will be moved over the weekend of June 7 and 8. We will be changing the IP number of the machine, but the host name and all mailing addresses will remain unchanged. There may be a few days of service disruption during this time due to the move unfortunately, just as we experienced in BIOSCI's previous move. We hope to keep this to a minimum. We will post status reports on the move to bionet.announce before and after it happens. Please watch that newsgroup for details. It has been a pleasure serving all of you since the "early days" of biology on the Internet. I've had the pleasure of not only "knowing" many of you over the Internet, but have also met literally thousands of biologists around the U.S. and elsewhere during the many Internet training seminars that I gave over the last decade. I've been truly fortunate to have been given the chance to play a role in the growth of biology on the Internet. This is something I will always treasure. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Tue May 27 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 28 May 1997 07:53:32 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 240 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mhgtc$ee1@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. 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. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines. The server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list. Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended. The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net