Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!GENBANK.BIO.NET!kristoff From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: BIOSCI Newsgroups Information Message-ID: <9012010901.AA03063@genbank.bio.net> Date: 1 Dec 90 09:01:04 GMT Sender: kristoff@genbank.bio.net Lines: 215 THE BIOSCI BULLETIN BOARD NETWORK The BIOSCI bulletin board network was developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of computer networks. By having distribution sites or "nodes" on each major network, BIOSCI allows its users to contact people on other networks around the world without having to learn a variety of computer addressing tricks. Any user can simply post a message to his/her regional BIOSCI node (see list below) and copies of the message will be distributed automatically to all other subscribers on all of the participating networks. The following is a list of newsgroup topics available for distribution to sites on the ARPANET/Internet, BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET as well as UUCP sites. For each of these bboards, BITNET name abbreviations and analogous UNIX USENET newsgroup names are provided in a second list below. Also below is a list of the various sites (nodes) that distribute the bboards, the address format for posting messages, and the addresses used for subscription requests. BBOARD NAME TOPIC ----------- ----- AGEING Scientific Interest Group AGROFORESTRY Scientific Interest Group BIONAUTS Address & other info about biologists on networks BIONEWS General announcements of widespread interest to biologists BIO-JOURNALS Tables of Contents of biological journals BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases BIO-SOFTWARE Information on software for the biological sciences EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION Scientific Interest Group HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM NIH-sponsored newsgroup on human genome issues METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Scientific Interest Group POPULATION-BIOLOGY Scientific Interest Group PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Scientific Interest Group SCIENCE-RESOURCES Information from/about the funding agencies The following list includes BITNET newsgroup names (<= 8 characters) and also the names of the corresponding UNIX USENET newsgroups. Messages can be posted directly to any of these newsgroups without editorial intervention. Use the address format bboardname@nodename where "bboardname" comes from either the left or middle column below and "nodename" is found at the bottom of the respective column. For example, the BIOSCI node at SERC Daresbury in the U.K. utilizes the BITNET names and is thus listed below the middle column in the following list. To post a message to the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS newsgroup, U.K. users would mail to methods@uk.ac.daresbury. USENET users can also post news directly to the USENET groups listed below by using the "postnews" software on their local UNIX computer. Be sure to set the message distribution to "world." USENET groups are read using, e.g., the "readnews," "rn," or "vnews" software on UNIX systems. USENET news software is in the public domain and is available for most UNIX systems. A public domain USENET news software package named ANU-NEWS is also available for VAX/VMS systems. Your local BIOSCI node can point you towards acquiring the software for use on your computer system (BIOSCI addresses below). BBOARD NAME BITNET/EARN Name USENET Newsgroup Name ----------- ---------------- --------------------- AGEING AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing AGROFORESTRY AG-FORST bionet.agroforestry BIONAUTS BIO-NAUT bionet.users.addresses BIONEWS BIONEWS bionet.general BIO-JOURNALS BIO-JRNL bionet.journals.contents BIO-MATRIX BIOMATRX bionet.molbio.bio-matrix BIO-SOFTWARE BIO-SOFT bionet.software EMBL-DATABANK EMBL-DB bionet.molbio.embldatabank EMPLOYMENT BIOJOBS bionet.jobs GENBANK-BB GENBANKB bionet.molbio.genbank GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION GENE-ORG bionet.molbio.gene-org HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM GNOME-PR bionet.molbio.genome-program METHODS-AND-REAGENTS METHODS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION MOL-EVOL bionet.molbio.evolution POPULATION-BIOLOGY POP-BIO bionet.population-bio PROTEIN-ANALYSIS PROTEINS bionet.molbio.proteins SCIENCE-RESOURCES SCI-RES bionet.sci-resources Node Addresses Node Addresses for left column location for middle column location --------------- -------- ----------------- -------- bmc.uu.se (Sweden) irlearn.ucd.ie (Ireland) genbank.bio.net (U.S.A.) uk.ac.daresbury (U.K.) genbank.bio.net (U.S.A.) Subscription Requests and other Information ------------------------------------------- There are FOUR main BIOSCI nodes. The BIOSCI nodes in Sweden, UK, and USA all have managers who can add new members to the Bboards, whereas the BIOSCI node in Ireland allows for automatic subscription at LISTSERV@IRLEARN (see detailed instructions on LISTSERV use below). To make the management/debugging of the BIOSCI network easier and to minimize network traffic, it would be most helpful if the following guidelines could be adhered to: Your Geographical location subscription address BIOSCI node location -------------------------- ---------------------- -------------------- Scandinavia & Cont. Europe biosci@bmc.uu.se Sweden (Internet) Ireland and Cont. Europe LISTSERV@IRLEARN Ireland (EARN/BITNET) United Kingdom biosci@uk.ac.daresbury UK (JANET) North and South America biosci@genbank.bio.net USA (Internet/BITNET) NOTE: The procedure for automatic subscription through LISTSERV@IRLEARN (primarily for EARN users) is described further below. The BIOSCI manager at IRLEARN may be reached by mailing to BIOSCI@IRLEARN. Canceling Subscriptions ----------------------- If you have subscribed to a Bboard and are now leaving an institution or changing your e-mail address, then it is IMPERATIVE that you send a note to one of the addresses above and cancel your subscription. Non-existant addresses or overflowing mailboxes cause computer mail programs to send back "daemon" messages which bother everybody on the Bboard. We will immediately remove any address causing such a problem, but would prefer it if you would notify us in advance as a courtesy to the rest of the user community. ------------------ NOTE TO EARN (European Academic Research Network) USERS Currently the LISTSERV service which allows automatic subscription is available from IRLEARN (NOT from any of the other BIOSCI nodes!). To subscribe to any of the Bboards at IRLEARN, send a message to LISTSERV@IRLEARN containing one of the following lines in the body of your mail message to select the Bboard of interest. If you want to belong to many different Bboards then send all the subscriptions at once in a BATCH mail file. Replace your_personal_name in the list below with your own name. For example: SUBSCRIBE +BIONEWS John A. Doe SUBSCRIBE BIO+SOFT John A. Doe etc.... *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# \ Mail the message to LISTSERV@IRLEARN / * PLEASE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE DIRECTLY TO THE NEWSGROUP ADDRESS * #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# If you wish to cancel your subscription to a bulletin board, please send a similar message to LISTSERV@IRLEARN replacing SUBSCRIBE with the word SIGNOFF and omit your name, e.g., use simply SIGNOFF +BIONEWS It is also possible to cancel all LISTSERV subscriptions with a single command: SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# * PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR SIGNOFF MESSAGE TO THE NEWSGROUP ITSELF * #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# Both subscription and cancellation requests are to be sent to LISTSERV@IRLEARN. Bboard Name Subscription/Cancellation Command ----------- ------------------------------------- AGEING SUBSCRIBE +AGEING your_personal_name SIGNOFF +AGEING AGROFORESTRY SUBSCRIBE AG+FORST your_personal_name SIGNOFF AG+FORST BIONAUTS SUBSCRIBE BIO+NAUT your_personal_name SIGNOFF BIO+NAUT BIONEWS SUBSCRIBE +BIONEWS your_personal_name SIGNOFF +BIONEWS BIO-JOURNALS SUBSCRIBE BIO+JRNL your_personal_name SIGNOFF BIO+JRNL BIO-MATRIX SUBSCRIBE +BIOMATR your_personal_name SIGNOFF +BIOMATR BIO-SOFTWARE SUBSCRIBE BIO+SOFT your_personal_name SIGNOFF BIO+SOFT EMBL-DATABANK SUBSCRIBE EMBL+DB your_personal_name SIGNOFF EMBL+DB EMPLOYMENT SUBSCRIBE +BIOJOBS your_personal_name SIGNOFF +BIOJOBS GENBANK-BB SUBSCRIBE +GENBANK your_personal_name SIGNOFF +GENBANK GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION SUBSCRIBE GENE+ORG your_personal_name SIGNOFF GENE+ORG HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM SUBSCRIBE GNOME+PR your_personal_name SIGNOFF GNOME+PR METHODS-AND-REAGENTS SUBSCRIBE +METHODS your_personal_name SIGNOFF +METHODS MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION SUBSCRIBE MOL+EVOL your_personal_name SIGNOFF MOL+EVOL POPULATION-BIOLOGY SUBSCRIBE POP+BIO your_personal_name SIGNOFF POP+BIO PROTEIN-ANALYSIS SUBSCRIBE +PROTEIN your_personal_name SIGNOFF +PROTEIN SCIENCE-RESOURCES SUBSCRIBE SCI+RES your_personal_name SIGNOFF SCI+RES Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com