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From: vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Wanted: Moderator for Neuroscience newsgroup
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Date: 3 Mar 91 20:34:33 GMT
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Last week (feb 91) I posted a note asking about interest in a neuroscience
newsgroup. During the ensuing week I received over fifty responses by
e-mail from people voting yes and expressing interest.

This included a letter from someone at NIH who offered assistance in
setting up the newsgroup.

However, I am a casual user and know very little about Unix (using a VM
machine primarily) and am ill-qualified to set up a newsgroup. I understand
that there are some guidelines for setting up a Usenet newsgroup that
woods@ncar.ucar.edu has outlined, which includes an announcement in
news.announce.newgroups and a voting period of aprroximately 21 days.
Furthermore, a charter of the newsgroup and a moderator is recommended.

I thank those who expressed enthusiastic interest in a neuroscience
newsgroup, and apologise for erasing your responses (I haven't mastered
my unix mailer yet.) This includes the response from NIH.

If anyone has the expertise and willingness to set up the group, I see
that it would be a worthwhile effort, and can see it being a well-subscribed
group.

Cheers.

Vincent Mazzarella
College of Medicine, Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
e-mail:  mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu