kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (10/23/90)
I have received the following proposal to form an electronic bulletin
board for the chromosome 22 community. Under BIOSCI regulations,
proposals are put to a vote of our readership (as described below) and
at least 40 "yes" votes must be obtained within 60 days before the
group can be established. Voting is now open and the voting addresses
are given below. Votes must be received by 21 December 1990.
Sincerely,
Dave Kristofferson
GenBank Manager
kristoff@genbank.bio.net
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This is the first electronic announcement of intent to establish an
electronic bulletin board on the topic of Human Chromosome 22. The
bulletin board will be accessible to all persons that use electronic mail
-i.e. an international group. Although the exact nature of the bulletin
board will evolve with use, its primary purpose will be to allow more
frequent contact among persons interested in items related to chromosome
22. This includes persons interested in the human genome program of
mapping and sequencing chromosome 22, as well as persons interested in
specific genes, chromosomal abnormalities and disease phenotypes related to
22. It can be a forum to distribute information concerning new clones,
references, cell lines, genes, polymorphisms, and scientific meetings
related to chromosome 22.
The proposed electronic bulletin board will be part of the
international BIOSCI bulletin board network. To become a reality, forty
different people with distinct e-mail addresses must reply to this
announcement within two months. These responses must be sent to one
of the "biovote" addresses below (depending upon your location/network).
ADDRESS LOCATION NETWORK
biovote@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET
biovote@uk.ac.daresbury United Kingdom JANET
biovote@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet
biovote@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET
[NOTE: Users in other parts of the world should contact either the
BIOSCI node in Ireland or the U.S.A. depending upon which one they can
access easily.]
Please forward this notification to all persons in your group or
institution that may be interested in participating, but may fail
to see this electronic announcement. The following persons may also be
notified if you have questions or suggestions concerning the bulletin
board:
Beverly S. Emanuel, Ph.D. Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D.
Chairman Chromosome 22, HGM11 Nussbaum@A1.MSCF.UPENN.EDU
EMANUEL@A1.MSCF.UPENN.EDU
Nat L. Sternberg, Ph.D. Nancy S. Shepherd, Ph.D.
STERNBER@ESVAX.DUPONT.COM SHEPHERD@ESVAX.DUPONT.COM
Thank you in advance for your interest.usenet@nlm.nih.gov (usenet news poster) (10/26/90)
In article <CMM.0.88.656637413.kristoff@genbank.bio.net> biovote@genbank.bio.net writes: >I have received the following proposal to form an electronic bulletin >board for the chromosome 22 community. Under BIOSCI regulations, >proposals are put to a vote of our readership (as described below) and >at least 40 "yes" votes must be obtained within 60 days before the >group can be established. Voting is now open and the voting addresses >are given below. Votes must be received by 21 December 1990. I am in favor of creating such a newgroup, but it should be pointed out that the guidelines for creating a USENET newgroup are more stringent than stated above. First, there is to be a 30 day discussion period , then a call for votes. The votes must be scored as follows: 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections that might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more valid YES/create votes are received than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are in favor of creation, a newgroup control message may be sent out. If the 100 vote margin or 2/3 percentage is not met, the group should not be created. See news.announce.newusers for a complete discussion of this. BIONET is part of USENET and clearly benefits from USENET resources. We should abide by USENET guidelines. David Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own; your vote determines the opinions and policy of the United States government. David J. States National Center for Biotechnology Information states@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov National Library of Medicine
kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (10/27/90)
David, Thanks for your vote to form the newsgroup. I expect at the rate votes are coming in the group will be approved soon. Regarding voting procedures, Eliot Lear who manages the bionet USENET groups here, and who has considerable experience working with netnews software, happens to be (not coincidentally 8-) the moderator of news.announce.newgroups, the main USENET newsgroup in which calls for new groups are put out. He is intimately familiar with USENET regulations. The rules that you cite are for the major USENET domains such as comp, rec, sci, etc. The bionet groups are not required to adhere to those guidelines since they are a small specialty set. Our current regulations were worked out by common agreement among the BIOSCI/bionet managers at our various distribution nodes. Biologists are not yet present on the net in numbers comparable to computer scientists, and to hold them to rules set up by computer scientists would effectively prevent the formation of almost any newsgroup at this stage of development. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net