Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!genet!bionet!finujo.bitnet!TENHUNEN From: TENHUNEN@finujo.bitnet Newsgroups: bionet.technology.conversion Subject: Gatlinburg discussion possibilities Message-ID: <8911121025.AA24425@net.bio.net> Date: 12 Nov 89 10:20:00 GMT Sender: daemon@NET.BIO.NET Lines: 113 Discussion on the possibilities of the distribution of the Gatlinburg '90 abstracts will continue: *********************************************************************** *>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 89 16:38:34 -0500 * *>From: biotech@msr.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Elias Greenbaum) * *>Message-Id: <8911112138.AA01136@msr.EPM.ORNL.GOV> * *>To: tenhunen%finujo.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu * *> * *>To: Juhani Tenhunen * *>From: Elias Greenbaum * *> * *>The information on my bulletin board consists of the Announcement * *>and Call for Papers for the Twelfth Symposium on Biotechnology for * *>Fuels and Chemicals which will be held May 7-11, 1990, Gatlinburg, * *>Tennessee, USA plus registration and housing information for people * *>wishing to attend. * *********************************************************************** We BIO-CONV readers have already read this information. *********************************************************************** *>I also have posted all of the abstracts that were accepted for * *>presentation at last year's Eleventh Symposium which was held in * *>Colorado Springs, CO, USA. This information is available for * *>downloading as files and can also be searched by key word ("on- * *>line" using Boolean logic operators) with a key word search * *>utility. * *> * *>The abstracts that are accepted for the Twelfth Symposium will be * *>posted in a similar manner in February 1990. * *> * *>I will be happy to make any or all of the above information * *>available to your subscribers. * *********************************************************************** Thank you. Those BIO-CONV readers that are now interested in the 1988 11th Symp. abstracts can then request you the ones they are interested in, can't they? I had the idea that the abstracts you'll post in Feb. 1990 could be posted for comments in our BIO-CONV@NET.BIO.NET or bionet.conversion.technology system that could act as a worldwide conference site before and during the meeting. *********************************************************************** *>I'm still confused by your use of the term "teleconferences." As * *>I understand this term it means several people all on-line at the * *>same time with a host computer who can interact with each other in * *>real time at their computer terminal. * *********************************************************************** This is only one and perhaps the worst type in teleconferences, because the number of people that can be connected to the host computer in the same time is very limited. By now, even international really on-line teleconferences can be arranged by the use of RELAY sites with one-line messages, but this, too, don't be satisfactory. In scientific international teleconferences, best way to make discussion is to use either 1) one host computer with a computer conferencing software (e.g. CoSy developed by Guelph University, Canada, or Com/PortaCom systems developed in Stockholm University, Sweden; the latter ones can act also as BB systems that send messages to the email addresses of foreign users) or 2) the international News system where you can read the messages you want from the bionet.technology.conversion newsgroup in such host computers that run the bionet newsgroups, or 3) the BB service that sends the messages of the BIO-CONV BB straight to the email address from you after you have sent the BIO-CONV subscription message to BIOSCI@NET.BIO.NET *********************************************************************** *>Can I participate in one of your teleconferences so that I can * *>experience what you are describing? I still don't understand how * *>it differs from group E-mail. * *********************************************************************** I have sent my replies to you (this, too) via BIO-CONV@IRLEARN.UCD.IE, which is the European list server I use and which sends the message to you via the server you are using - I suppose that you get it via the slave list BIO+CONV@NET.BIO.NET If you send your next answer to BIO-CONV@NET.BIO.NET instead of tenhunen%finujo.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu, every people reading the bionet.technology.conversion newsgroup or receiving BIO-CONV BB's can read it straight and reply to it so that you receive all the comments. Normal group E-mail don't have these advantages. ********************************************************************** *>I heartily support any system that reduces the costs of communica- * *>tion between scientists. * *> * *>Also, how can I log onto the Bioconverison Bulletin Board and read * *>what is poster there? * *>With best wishes * *> * *>Elias Greenbaum * ********************************************************************** If you get this answer by E-mail, I suppose you are already in the Bioconversion Bulletin Board, and get all the material that will be sent there. Regards, Juhani Tenhunen, M. Sc. (Eng) Research scientist University of Joensuu, Karelian Institute BIO-CONV co-moderator