lfk@eastman1.mit.edu (Lee F. Kolakowski) (03/06/91)
On 6 Mar 91 09:41:55 GMT, ian@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Ian Musgrave) said: > As another interested neuroscientist, I would also support the formation > of a Neuroscience newsgroup. How do you go about this, i.e. where should > a call for votes go. To answer this question, here is the notice from Dave (The Bionet.* megamoderator): > From kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET Wed Mar 6 08:37:09 1991 > From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) > Newsgroups: bionet.general > Subject: Call for Votes - proposed NEUROSCI group > Date: 5 Mar 91 22:47:50 GMT > > We have another proposal for a new group along with a person who has > volunteered as discussion leader, so I am putting out the call for > votes once again. This newsgroup would be for the Neurosciences and > would involve the following: > > It is herein proposed that a newsgroup be created for the > exchange of scientific ideas under the multi-disciplinary rubric of > neuroscience. The group, while welcoming and encouraging the > participation of computer scientists, will not focus on artificial > intelligence or neural nets, as there are newsgroups already on the > Usenet dedicated to these topics. Rather, scientists such as > physiologists, computational neuroscientists, molecular biologists, > and behavioral scientists would be encouraged to interact through this > medium to discuss the function, evolution, and structure of biologic > nervous systems. It would also be a place for researchers to sound > out novel theories and to facilitate collaborations. Discussions of > abstracts would be appropriate. It is recognized that neuroscientists > tend to be computer literate to an extent that would suggest a > justifiable volume for newsgroup creation. > > > If you are in favor of the creation of such a newsgroup, please send a > one line message saying > > YES ON NEUROSCI > > to one of the following addresses before 4 May 1991. If at least 40 > responses are received before that time we will create the newsgroup. > > PLEASE RESPOND TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES AND NOT TO THIS MESSAGE!! > > Address Location Network > ------- -------- ------- > biovote@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET > biovote@uk.ac.daresbury U.K. JANET > biovote@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet > biovote@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET > > > Sincerely, > > Dave Kristofferson > GenBank Manager > > kristoff@genbank.bio.net > > > P.S. - For those of you wondering about the status of the other > recently approved newsgroups, I will touch on that in my next message. Hope this helps -- Frank Kolakowski ======================================================================= |lfk@athena.mit.edu or lfk@eastman1.mit.edu or kolakowski@wccf.mit.edu| | Lee F. Kolakowski M.I.T. | | Dept of Chemistry Room 18-506 | | 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 | | AT&T: 1-617-253-1866 #include <disclaimer.h> | ======================================================================= ||Desert Storm - Lasers have made this the cleanest *dirty war* ever.|| =======================================================================