/To be printed in IUFRO News upon request of H.Schmutzenhofer/ Dear Forest Scientist: Announcement#4 F o r e s t m a i l i n g l i s t i s n o w i n o p e r a t i o n We are glad to announce that an international electronic mailing list has been set up for forest researchers. The mailing list is intended to be a general-purpose forum for all issues that can be fitted into email and are raised within IUFRO members and other parties interested in forestry sciences. The mailing list works in internet and all other nets that have gateways to it. These include bitnet and X400 mail to U.S. Forest Service. U s a g e The mailing list works simply: all messages that are sent to: forest@nic.funet.fi are forwarded to all the members who have subscribed to the forest-list. A d m i n i s t r a t i o n You can join the list by sending a subsription to: mailserver@nic.funet.fi The subscription should contain only four words on one line: subscribe forest <your first name> <your last name> The mailserver interpretes your mailing address from the mail you send. Correspondingly, you may unsubcribe from the list with the following message: unsubscribe forest You can get information about the services by sending the following one line, one word message to the mailserver: help For instance, one useful command that is apparent from help is: review forest which returns you a list of the subsrcibers. Physically, the mailing list resides at the State Computing Centre, Espoo, Finland. The same computer nic.funet.fi hosts one of Europe's largest software archives accessible with ftp. We are connecting the list to some usenet groups, but his will not be available globally for now. If you want to reach the administrator of the list, please send email to: forest-request@nic.forest.fi Please do not send administrative material to the list and all its members. The mailserver is still somewhat experimental, but we try to solve possible problems quickly. The adminstrator is: Mr. Ari Turkia Forestry Faculty University of Joensuu P.O.Box 111 SF-80101 Joensuu, Finland turkia@lists.funet.fi You may also correspond with Don Latham and the undersigned about IUFRO computers issues. S u b s c r i b e t o d a y If there is demand for specialized groups, we can set up additional lists for the various forestry subfields. However, we feel that this needs to be done only after sufficient activity around some topic has been demonstrated in the main list. Please use the subject field of email wisely to indicate what topic you are discussing. What is suitable material to the list? Almost anything that is not personal and has at least some general interest amoung forest scientists. Announcements of events and positions are maybe the most interesting ones. If you have questions that you do not know whom to ask, go ahead on the list. These questions include such as "what is a recommeneded book to learn of something?", "is anybody using software package A to solve a particular problem?", and so on. We hope that this mailing list will see lots of activity. Please spread the word among your colleagues. Yours, Hannu Saarenmaa Deputy Leader of S4.11-03 "Computers" Finnish Forest Research Institute tel: +358-0-85705235 Unioninkatu 40A fax: +358-0-625308 00170 Helsinki, Finland hannu.saarenmaa@metla.fi
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