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Introducing the APIS mailing/discussion list



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INTRODUCING THE APIS-L MAILING/DISCUSSION LIST  
  
Dear Newsletter Reader:  
  
I want to thank you for your continued interest in APIS:  Apicultural  
Information and Issues, one of the longest running monthly Cooperative  
Extension Beekeeping Newsletters in the U.S.  This publication is now  
celebrating its fourteenth year chronicling change in apiculture.  It was  
first made available on BITNET and later through the Internet, officially  
recognized for pioneer work in electronic publishing by being featured  
in the lobbying document, 51 Reasons--How We Use the Internet and  
What it Says About the Information Superhighway.  In keeping with  
developments in the information revolution, APIS is also archived at  
gopher sites, including the one maintained by IFAS (College of  
Agriculture) at the University of Florida (gopher://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu).  
It also has an extensive World Wide Web site with links among issues  
and  to other sites.    
  
In addition to these passive archives, I have continued to make APIS  
available to an extensive electronic mailing list, including cross posting  
it to other lists such as BEE-L.  This way interested persons can get a  
copy hot off the press.  The number of requests, however, is so great that  
 I can no longer adequately maintain this mailing list.  Fortunately, there 
are now automatic programs which will do this job.  Therefore, I have 
created the APIS-L mailing/discussion list.  
  
This list will be managed by a program called LISTSERV at the Northeast  
Regional Data Center on the University of Florida Campus.  To begin  
receiving the newsletter on an automatic basis, you simply send a message to:  
 
LISTSERV@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU  
  
Leave the subject line blank and on the first line of the message enter the 
only the following:  subscribe APIS-L First Name Last Name.  You  
should receive a message from the listserv asking you to reconfirm your  
request.  
  
Besides managing the list, the listserv provides some other benefits.   
These include opportunities to discuss the contents of newsletter with  
others directly receiving it, including the author.  In addition, 
distributing the publication this way will help to reduce the number of 
redundant messages across the Internet.  Instead of the full APIS issue,
I will post to discussion lists and elsewhere only a summary of what each
new number contains.  This will serve as a friendly reminder that the 
newsletter is available; those who want to see the issue can then access it 
through gopher or the Web; anyone wanting subsequent issues sent directly 
to them can subscribe to the APIS-L list.  Again, thank you for  your 
continued interest in the newsletter.  
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Malcolm T. Sanford		Phone:  352/392-1801 X 143  
Extension Apiculturist		Fax:  352/392-0190  
University of Florida		Email: mts@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu  
Box 110620, Bldg 970		Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 
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Apis on the World Wide Web:            
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~entweb/apis/apis.htm  
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