Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!csc.fi!harper From: harper@csc.fi Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Moderated list for Ecology/conservation... Message-ID: <1990Sep18.001159.1@csc.fi> Date: 18 Sep 90 00:11:59 GMT References: <26EF7F5C.17114@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <11731@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Sender: usenet@nic.funet.fi Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET Lines: 21 In article , kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) writes: > Una, you have approached me about this CONSLINK issue in the past and > my response remains the same. Anyone is free to propose a new > newgroup by sending a proposal to BIONEWS at any time. We request > only that the proposer only have sufficient interest to be prepared to > serve as a moderator (in the sense of someone who stimulates > discussion ... we do the newsgroup maintenance.). The proposal is > then put out to a vote. If it gets 40 votes in 60 days we create the > group. If Una wants to join a very ACTIVE and moderated list where there is plenty of VOLUME then perhaps BIOSHP-L would be the list to join. It is on a LISTSERV in the States. You can send a mail message to LISTSERV@UBVM leave the subject line of your message blank and in the main body of the text write: subsrcibe BIOSHP-L Your_full_name **** REMEMBER send to LISTSERV@UBVM and not to this list **** Rob " I don't work I network" Harper