vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella) (03/04/91)
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
kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (03/05/91)
Vincent, I sent e-mail to you earlier about this and have also seen Josh Hayes posting to sci.bio. We would be happy to create this group under the bionet domain where I believe that the level of discussion would be more to the liking of professional researchers. We would need someone to volunteer as discussion leader, however. It is not necessary to know UNIX as we will handle maintenance of the newsgroup. Sincerely, David Kristofferson, Ph.D. GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net