From owner-announce@net.bio.net Mon Nov 01 07:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: BIOSCI Newsgroups - Changes Date: 1 Nov 1999 01:00:09 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 108 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: biohelp Distribution: world Message-ID: <7vjkqp$bp3@net.bio.net> Reply-To: biosci-help@net.bio.net NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The U.S. BIOSCI node gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of the organizations listed below. Molecular Dynamics, Inc., a leading producer of innovative instrumentation systems for the life sciences Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., a major provider of electronic information to business, research, and scientific professionals BIOSIS, publisher of Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative reagents and kits for the life sciences LI-COR, Inc., manufacturer of automated infrared DNA sequencing and genetic analysis systems. The Nest Group, Inc. a value-added distributor of HPLC columns, DNA kits, and electrophoresis gels for biomolecule separation. Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for open network computing environments. QIAGEN, a leading provider of innovative, user-friendly technologies for nucleic acid and protein purification. Research Diagnostics, Inc., distributor of fine immunochemical products Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, A Worldwide Healthcare Company Serving the Needs of the Life Science Community. Quantum Biotechnologies, Inc., quantum leap to the 21st century with innovative molecular biology tools Turner Designs, Inc., the solution provider in research fluorometers and luminometers for over 20 years. The assistance of these organizations allows us to continue to provide our service to you since the end of our grant this year. Please thank our sponsors for their support of BIOSCI in your communications with them. All BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web at our URL http://www.bio.net/ Please click on the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" hyperlink. One can both read and post to all full newsgroups in addition to doing WAIS searches on each group and browsing the archives through our new hypermail interface. This service alleviates the need to subscribe by e-mail and also makes it possible to access the latest postings quickly if you have problems with your local news USENET system or have an unreliable newsfeed. The following new newsgroups were created last month. Please check the BIOSCI info sheet in a subsequent posting for details: No new newsgroups last month. The following newsgroups were converted from unmoderated to moderated forums: bionet.structural-nmr/STRUCTURAL-NMR was changed to moderated The following new prototype newsgroups were created last month. Please check the section on prototype newsgroups near the end of the BIOSCI info sheet for details: No new prototype newsgroups last month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT - What to do if new bionet USENET groups do not appear at ^^^^^^^^^ your site. As of December 1995 you can stop worrying about this problem and use the Web to access the newsgroups at URL http://www.bio.net/. However users who want to use their local USENET newsreaders should read on. As automatic creation of new USENET newsgroups becomes less common at most sites, users may have to check with their local news administrators periodically to ensure that they are receiving a complete set of bionet USENET newsgroups. The "bionet Checkgroups Message" is a BIOSCI WWW page option under the BIOSCI documentation section mentioned above. News administrators should regularly use this checkgroups script, e.g., once a month, to ensure that the latest bionet USENET newsgroups are available on their news system. The checkgroups message is automatically posted to the "control" newsgroup on the first of each month, so your news administrator should be alerted automatically by e-mail if bionet groups are missing at your site. Nonetheless they will still have to read and take manual action on the output of this e-mail if automatic newsgroup creation is disabled locally. In summary, if you can't find new bionet newsgroups in your newsreader, please call this checkgroups feature to the attention of your news administrator. Please also check the BIOSCI FAQ for instructions on solving other common news propagation problems. Sincerely, Serge Taylor BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net .