NEWSGROUPS

ALT NEWSGROUPS

Description:
alt.support.arthritis
A discussion of issues concerning arthritis
sufferers
alt.education.disabled
A discussion of issues concerning the disabled.
alt.recovery
12 step groups (such as AA, ACA, GA, etc.)

BIONET NEWS GROUPS

Description:
Unlike most Usenet newsgroups, the bionet newsgroups
all have gateways into non-listserver mailing lists.
The cross-posting of articles to more than one
newsgroup is discouraged, since at this time the e-mail
subscribers will get multiple copies of any cross-
posted articles.These mailing lists are administrated
by David Kristofferson's BIOSCI service, which is
funded by the US National Science Foundation for the
express purpose of supporting computer networking among
biologists.By supporting personal e-mail subscriptions
to the bionet newsgroups, BIOSCI has effectively formed
a bridge between biologists with e-mailand those with
Usenet (once familiar with Usenet, few people have the
patience for e-mail subscriptions). David
Kristofferson is responsible for proposing the creation
of the bionet domain of Usenet and starting many of the
bionet newsgroups. Requests for e-mail subscriptions
to bionet newsgroups are handled by [email protected]
(for requests from he Americas) and
[email protected] (for all others).

BioSci

Three important items follow: BIOSCI archive searching
by e-mail, the BIOSCI FAQ, and the BIOSCI User Address
Directory form. If you have not yet listed yourself in
our e-mail address directory, please take a few minutes
to complete and return the form below. If your address
information has changed since you listed yourself,
please send us an updated form.

Sincerely,

Dave Kristofferson
BIOSCI/bionet Manager
[email protected]

SEARCHING BIOSCI ARCHIVES WITH WAISMAIL

E-mail users can search the BIOSCI archives by using
our waismail e-mail server. For instructions send the
message help to [email protected]. Leave the
Subject: line blank. Other methods of searching the
archives via WAIS and gopher are described in the
BIOSCI FAQ.

BIOSCI FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) SHEET

New users of BIOSCI/bionet may want to read the
"Frequently Asked Questions" or "FAQ" sheet for
BIOSCI. The FAQ provides details on how to participate
in these forums and is available for anonymous FTP from
net.bio.net [134.172.2.69] in pub /BIOSCI/biosci.FAQ or
for retrieval by gopher to net.bio.net, port 70. It
may also be requested by sending e-mail to
[email protected] (use plain English for your request).
The FAQ is also posted on the first of each month to the
newsgroup BIONEWS/bionet.announce immediately following
the posting of the BIOSCI information sheet. A FAQ
describing administrative details of the bionet
newsgroups is available from [email protected] or
[email protected], and appears regularly in the
bionet.announce newsgroup. Note: rules for forming
new bionet newsgroups differ somewhat from those used
elsewhere in Usenet. Various other FAQs dealing with
the interests of specific newsgroups are posted in
those newsgroups. Tom Schneider's FAQ for bionet.info-
theory is available by anonymous ftp from ncifcrf.gov:
look for the file bionet.info-theory.faq in the
pub/delila/ directory.

bionet.general
General BIOSCI discussion
bionet.genome.chrom22
Discussion of Chromosome 22
bionet.journals.contents
Biology Journals Contents
bionet.immunology
Discussion concerning immunology research
bionet.molbio.ageing
Cellular and organismal ageing
bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
Computer applications to biological databases
bionet.molbio.embldatabank
EMBL Nucleic acid database discussion
bionet.molbio.genbank
Information concerning the GenBank Nucleic acid
bionet.molbio.genbank.updates
Moderated. GenBank updates
bionet.molbio.gene-linkage
Discussions about genetic linkage analysis
bionet.molbio.evolution
How genes and proteins have evolved
bionet.molbio.genome-program
Discussion of Human Genome Project issues

Discussion concerning the molec. biology of HIV
bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
Requests for information and lab reagents
bionet.neuroscience
Research issues in the neurosciences
bionet.molbio.proteins
Research on proteins and protien databases
bionet.sci-resources
Information about funding agencies

BITNET LISTSERV ECHOS

Description:
As with all of the bit.listserv news groups, these are
echos of the corresponding Bitnet mailing lists.

bit.listserv.aidsnews
bit.listserv.autism
bit.listserv.deaf-l
bit.listserv.l-hcap
bit.listserv.mednews
bit.listserv.psycgrad.

MISC NEWSGROUPS

Description:
misc.emerg-services
Emergency services discussion group
misc.handicap
This newsgroup covers all areas of disabilities,
technical, medical, educational, legal, etc.

Name: SCI NEWSGROUPS

Description:
sci.bio
Biology and related sciences discussion
sci.bio.technology
Discussion of technology in biology
sci.med
Medicine and its related products and regs.
sci.med.aids
AIDS: treatment, path./biol., HIV prevention
sci.med.nurs
Nursing discussion
sci.med.physics
Physics in medicine discussion
sci.med.radiol
Radiology discussion
sci.med.telemedicine
Medical Networking - Hospital Networks
sci.psychology
Psychology issues
sci.psychology.digest
Psychology issues in digest form
sci.med.occupational
Occupational Injuries discussion.

TALK NEWSGROUPS

Description:
talk.abortion
Abortion issues discussion
talk.politics.drugs
The politics of drug issues