Forwarded message: > From forest-owner@nic.funet.fi Fri Sep 18 11:57:53 1992 > Message-Id: <9209180857.AA06706@cs.joensuu.fi> > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 11:52:05 +0300 > From: roimse@tuomi.metla.fi (Dr. Hannu Saarenmaa) > Illegal-Object: Syntax error in Message-Id: value found on nic.funet.fi: > Message-Id: <9209180852.AA14728@tuomi.metla.fi.> > ^-illegal subdomain in domain > To: x0221daa@awiuni11.bitnet, forest@nic.funet.fi > Subject: Revised announcement of the list > Cc: hannu.saarenmaa@metla.fi, turkia@nic.funet.fi > > /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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