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Mailing lists, their modes of distribution, their methods
of administration, and much other stuff is discussed in
non-technical language in "A Biologist's Guide to Internet
Resources", last released Nov. 1993 (the new version is
slowly getting to the top of my free-time work stack ;-).
Below, you'll find a blurb about how to obtain the guide.

Regards,

        Una Smith               una.smith@yale.edu

Dept. of Biology, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT  06520-8104



				How to Get

		A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources


The Guide contains an overview and lists of free Internet resources such as: 

	scientific discussion groups:  newsgroups and mailing lists
	research newsletters, directories, and bibliographies
	huge data and software archives
	tools for finding and retrieving information
	a bibliography of useful books and Internet documents

The current version of the free 40-page Guide can be obtained over the
Internet via Usenet, gopher, anonymous FTP and e-mail:

   -- In Usenet, look in sci.bio, sci.answers, or news.answers.

   -- Gopher to sunsite.unc.edu, and choose this sequence of menu items:

		Worlds of SunSITE -- by Subject
			Ecology and Evolution

      Or, from any gopher offering other biology gophers by topic, look for
      the menu item "Ecology and Evolution [at UNC and Yale]".  The Guide
      is stored there in two ways:  as a file for easy retrieval of the
      entire file, and as a menu for browsing and retrieving key sections.

      Sunsite.unc.edu offers public telnet access to their own gopher client,
      if you don't have your own.  Telnet to sunsite.unc.edu and read the
      instructions before the login prompt.

   -- FTP to sunsite.unc.edu.  Give the username "anonymous" and your e-mail
      address as the password.  Use the "cd" command to go to the directory

		pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/

      and use "get bioguide.faq" to copy the Guide to your computer.

   -- Send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the text

		send pub/usenet/sci.answers/biology/guide/* 
		send pub/usenet/sci.answers/index
		quit

      You will receive the Guide in several parts:  save each part separately,
      use a text editor to delete the e-mail headers and trailers of each,
      and merge them.  You will also receive a useful index of all other FAQs
      on (more or less) scientific topics.  Use "quit" to prevent the mail
      server from trying to interpret your signature as an instruction.  For
      help using the mail server, use "help".

      Rtfm.mit.edu also accepts anonymous FTP requests.

Enjoy!