kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (04/12/91)
The Arabidopsis newsgroup is now operational as part of BIOSCI. To
post to the newsgroup, mail to whichever of the following sites is most
convenient:
Address Location Network
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arab-gen@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET
arab-gen@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET
arab-gen@uk.ac.daresbury U.K. JANET
arab-gen@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet
ARABIDOPSIS messages are also carried over USENET in the newsgroup
bionet.genome.arabidopsis. If you have access to this USENET
newsgroup, you will no longer need an e-mail message. Please send me
a message and I will take your address off of the mailing list.
USENET users can post their messages directly into the newsgroup BUT
be sure to set the message distribution to "world" when prompted by
your postnews software.
If you have any problems with the newsgroup, please contact your local
BIOSCI node at one of the following addresses:
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Note that all UK e-mail addresses on the list have been sent to
uk.ac.daresbury. All other European addresses have been sent to
irlearn.ucd.ie except for one Norwegian address which was sent to
bmc.uu.se. The remaining mail addresses are on the list at
genbank.bio.net.
I have confirmation from all sites except IRLEARN that the addresses
have been installed. I am temporarily retaining the European
addresses on the genbank mailing list until the switch is confirmed
This means that European users might receive duplicate messages for a
short period of time. PLEASE NOTE that I am posting this message to
the arab-gen@genbank.bio.net address as well as the old address at
Michigan State, so you will possibly receive this twice. I believe
that everyone has been successfully transferred to the BIOSCI lists
from MSU, but please contact one of the BIOSCI addresses above if you
stop receiving postings.
I include for your reading enjoyment our detailed information sheet on
the BIOSCI newsgroups. Please don't hesitate to call on me if you
need assistance.
Sincerely,
David Kristofferson, Ph.D.
GenBank Manager
kristoff@genbank.bio.net
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gnome-pr@irlearn.ucd.ie
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gnome-pr@bmc.uu.se
gnome-pr@genbank.bio.net
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AGEING AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing
AGROFORESTRY AG-FORST bionet.agroforestry
ARABIDOPSIS ARAB-GEN bionet.genome.arabidopsis
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
CHROMOSOME-22 CHROM-22 bionet.genome.chrom22
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** COMP-BIO bionet.biology.computational
EMBL-DATABANK EMBL-DB bionet.molbio.embldatabank
EMPLOYMENT BIOJOBS bionet.jobs
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METHODS-AND-REAGENTS METHODS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION MOL-EVOL bionet.molbio.evolution
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