E-Mail Discussion Lists

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• Four Email Discussion Lists

  have been initially established for the use of participants in the PPS '96 Course. These are one of the main ways in which we will communicate with each other, on various matters relating to the Course. Further discussion lists may appear during proceedings depending on the wishes of participants; a 'projects' list will be activated at a later date as appropriate.

  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:-

  • pps96-technical

    This is intended for people to discuss any technical issues that they have with any of the technology that we will be using in the course. Anyone who can offer others the benefit of their technical knowledge should join this list and respond with possible solutions to problems which others may experience.

  • pps96-bioinformatics

    Here we will discuss issues related to the scientific content of the bioinformatics section of the course - mainly term 1.

  • pps96-proteins

    Topics relating to protein structure (mainly term 2) are to be raised and discussed here.

  • pps96-general

    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@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

  with a blank subject header and
  in the body of the message put

  subscribe   ListName   RealName

  substituting the appropriate list name and your real 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

  pps96-technical@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

  .. or, say

  pps96-general@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

  If you encounter problems e.g. with bounces, check with your local support first.

  If you have further technical problems contact Dave Houldershaw:

  software@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

• 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@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

  with a blank subject header and
  in the body of the message put

  unsubscribe  ListName

  where you put in the appropriate list name.

• Suggesting Further Discussion Lists

  This can be done within the pps96-general discussion list.

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