From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Wed Dec 24 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Leon Avery Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: electronic WBG Date: 25 Dec 1997 15:40:19 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 26 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <67uqt3$cdq@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm thinking of making some changes to the way WBG abstracts are submitted. The most important would be to eliminate traditional e-mail submission. Apparently the instructions for e-mail submission are difficult to follow: most of the abstracts that come in by this route are incorrectly formatted. They have to be fixed by hand, with the possibility of introducing new errors or misinterpreting the author's intent. The current e-mail submission system would be replaced with a single-step WWW form. You would fill in the form, then click the submit button, and the information would be e-mailed to the server. (For the technically savvy, the form would use a mailto: URL.) You would get an acknowledgement by e-mail. Please let me know if this change would cause you hardship. -- Leon Avery (214) 648-4931 (voice) Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology -1488 (fax) University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd leon@eatworms.swmed.edu Dallas, TX 75235-9148 http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/ .