Dear Jyoti Rayamajhi: please send your subscription to the forest list to mailserver@nic.funet.fi as indicated in the announcement below. Your interest is appreciated, _______________ Hannu Saarenmaa Natural Resources Canada (613) 589-2880 Petawawa National Forestry Institute (613) 589-2275 FAX Chalk River, Ontario, Canada K0J 1J0 hsaarenmaa@pnfi.forestry.ca =============== Dear Forest Scientist: Announcement#6 Original September 15, 1992 Update June 20, 1993 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 I am glad to inform you 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. Currently, there are 253 subscribers from the following network domains (mainly countries): DOMAIN Count of Members ---------------------------- AT 2 AU 16 BE 1 BITNET 18 BR 3 CA 37 CH 4 COM USA 12 CS 1 DE 2 EDU USA 89 FI 28 FR 8 GOV USA 7 IE 1 IT 1 JP 4 NL 2 NO 1 NZ 5 ORG USA 4 UK 5 ZA 2 TOTAL = 253 To date, there have been 170 postings to the 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 to the mailserver: 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 archie, gopher, mosaic and 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. W h a t c a n b e p o s t e d ? 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?" "where can I find information on subject X" "is anybody studying this subject ..." and so on. Especially welcome are short reviews of methodologies and computer-related questions pertinent to forest science. Many mailing lists have bi-monthly postings of frequently asked questions, answers compiled by list maintainers. We are currently collecting such a list, but the FAQ has not be released yet. There are other network sources that you might be interested in. Another mailing list for people interested especially in decision support systems in forest management can be subscribed from listserv@pnfi.forestry.ca. The sci and bionet groups in usenet contain some interesting material also. The Finnish Forest Research Institute will have a Gopher-server in operation in October 1993. It will initally include forest statistics and publications of the institute. Later, we will offer proceedings of the Resource Technology Symposiums and the IUFRO World Congress '95 papers through it. S u b s c r i b e t o d a y 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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