Seven main Email Discussion Lists
have been established for the use of students, consulting students, and consultants participating in the VSNS-PPS Course.
These are one of the main ways in which we will communicate with each other, on various matters relating to the Course. If you join a list you will be enabled to send messages (which all members will read), and you'll receive a copy of every message sent to the list by any member of it.
The messages sent to each list will be automatically hyper-archived on an hourly basis into monthly archives, and may be browsed by anybody.
These lists are named:-
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This is intended for people to discuss any technical problems that they have with any of the technology that we are attempting to use in the course. Already we know that some people have difficulties with forms. Anyone who can offer others the benefit of their technical knowledge should join this list and respond with possible solutions.
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Here we will discuss issues related to the scientific content of the course as we progress down the `backbone' of the `Principles Outline Document'. Any queries, problems, or suggestions on the scientific aspects of the principles of protein structure may be raised and discussed here.
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The glossary is going to comprise a major component of the course, and will be a
very powerful resource. Documents can be marked up AUTOMATICALLY! Anybody
wishing to help with and/or use is encouraged to join this list.
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This is a forum for all students to discuss whatever they choose with each other.
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On this discussion list groups may debate the content of the
`Protein Families' section of the course, and recruit helpers, etc. It may become appropriate later, to set up several separate strands if the mail traffic gets heavy.
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For the exchange of views on student projects as they develop. For consultants as well as students. Suggestions for (and adoption of) specific projects may be made here, as well as appeals for assistance.
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This is a rag-bag catch-all discussion list which may cater for those matters which don't easily fit anywhere else. Popular topics may spawn separate lists; we'll see.
Joining A List
To join any one of the lists, you should send an email message to
listproc@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
with a blank subject header and
in the body of the message put
subscribe vsns-pps-technical Real Name
substituting your real name and the appropriate list name, and nothing else.
You will receive an email acknowledgement. Read it carefully
Sending Messages to The List
You may send email messages to a list of which you are a member (but only from the machine from which you subscribed) by simply sending them to, for instance
vsns-pps-technical@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk .. or, say
vsns-pps-students@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk .. or, say
If you encounter problems e.g. with bounces, check with your local support first.
Replying to Messages
It is important to understand the distinction between the list itself, and the original sender of any particular message.
SO when replying, you must consider whether want to broadcast your response to the whole membership of the list, or whether the reply is only for the originator. Keeping this in mind keeps reasonable limits on the list traffic.
Leaving A List
Getting you name removed from the membership of a list is simple, but you've probably forgotten by the time you want to do it. So refer back here.
It's important NOT to send your unsubscribe message to every member of the list. They don't want to know.
You should send a message to
listproc@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
with a blank subject header and
in the body of the message put
unsubscribe vsns-pps-listname
where you put in the appropriate list name.
Suggesting Further Discussion Lists
This can be done within the vsns-pps-general discussion list.