From owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Jan 19 10:16:31 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E73B17A68 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8147517B47 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:16:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDEA17A68 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:16:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA29186 for btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:08:48 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: "Caltech News Server" X-Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: ANN: News server dedicated to system biology Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:10:43 -0800 Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 78 Message-ID: References: <3C492647.31850.14295D@localhost> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I don't know, the idea went all quiet, perhaps it's because no one actually knows has to effect this change. Herbert ""Douglas Kell"" wrote in message news:3C492647.31850.14295D@localhost... > 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 * > ******************************************************************** > > --- .