From owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Jan 19 08:01:30 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7458917A58 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:01:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675D817B47 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:01:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A1017AB7 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:01:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id HAA28271 for btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:58:46 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: dbk@aber.ac.uk ("Douglas Kell") X-Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: ANN: News server dedicated to system biology Date: 19 Jan 2002 07:58:42 -0000 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 58 Message-ID: <3C492647.31850.14295D@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7349317A58 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:58:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from cefni.aber.ac.uk (cefni.aber.ac.uk [144.124.16.40]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072EB17AB7 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:58:38 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from pcdbk.isdn.aber.ac.uk ([193.61.215.25] helo=pcghah) by cefni.aber.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.21 #1) id 16RqOc-000267-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:58:38 +0000 X-To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk, "Herbert Sauro" X-Cc: dbk@aber.ac.uk X-Priority: normal X-In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Perfectly good idea, but this prompts me to ask what happened to the idea that we could get the group moderated, which should eliminate all the spam? On 18 Jan 2002, at 17:28, Herbert Sauro wrote: > > On a completely different topic. > > There has been an awful lot of junk mail on this group over the last year, > so much so that I > don't bother to email material to it anymore. Rather than do nothing about > it has prompted me to > consider setting up a non-usenet news server. In fact as of today we have > one running > at Caltech though it's not yet advertised, I'm just waiting to be allocated > a static IP address. > A non-usenet server we could be useful because we could eliminate all the > rubbish > that currently gets sent to metabolic-reg, plus we could introduce other > more specialist groups, > for example we could host other topics in the general area, including > computation, software, > jobs, standards, experimental techniques etc. essentially anything related > to 'system biology'. > > The question is, would people be interested in this? The current group can > stay on > usenet but we could create a new metabolic-reg group on our local server. We > have existing > list servers through which we can advertise it's presence and people who > have an interest in system > biology/mca etc, could post links on their web sites. In addition I would be > happy to host other > peoples areas of interest in sys bio, eg a Gepasi news group if Pedro were > interested and so on. > > Herbert Sauro > Caltech > > > > ******************************************************************** *(Prof.) Douglas B. Kell Phone: +44 1970 622334 * *Director of Research * *Institute of Biological Sciences Fax: +44 1970 622354 * *Cledwyn Building * *University of Wales, Email: dbk@aber.ac.uk * *Aberystwyth SY23 3DD, U.K. http://qbab.aber.ac.uk/ * * http://www.abergc.com* * Have a look at the 2002 meeting of the Society for Biomolecular * * Screening http://www.sbsonline.org * ******************************************************************** --- .