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Newsgroups
Other Resources
USENET contains many newsgroups of interest to the scientific community.
Some microscopy related newsgroups are listed below.
Newsgroups function much like a bulletin board. Messages and replies are posted
in a common location for everyone to see. Unlike list
servers, posted messages are not mailed to a list of subscribers. Instead,
when a message is posted to a newsgroup it is transmitted to every news server
that carries the newsgroup. If there are 100 users monitoring a newsgroup on a
particular server only one message is transmitted and stored, not 100 as with a
mailing list. This is much more efficient.
All messages posted to all news groups carried by your news server must be stored
locally by your network service provider. This can consume a
large amount of disk space. Therefore, old messages will
disappear after a certain time period or when a certain disk space allotment has
been exceeded.
Like list servers, when replying to a posting in a newsgroup, you should
consider whether your reply is of general interest or not. If your reply is
of general interest you should post your reply to the newsgroup. If your
reply is not of general interest or of a personal nature
you should reply by e-mail to the person who originally posted the message.
This will prevent the newsgroup from being clogged with messages that say
things like, "Jerry, Thanks for the information!".
Microscopy Related Newsgroups
The following is a list USENET newsgroups of interest to the microscopist.
In order to access these newsgroups
- your browser must support newsgroups,
- your browser must be correctly configured, and
- your news server (NNTP) must carry the newsgroup.
- bit.listserv.confocal
- Confocal Microscopy List.
- sci.bio.botany
- Plants.
- sci.bio.immunocytochem
- A Usenet newsgroup for immunocytochemists and immunohistochemists.
More information can be found at
http://www.sghms.ac.uk/em/sbi/sbi.htm
and by e-mail
awilson@sghms.ac.uk.
- sci.bio.microbiology
- Protists, fungi, algae, other microscopic organisms.
- sci.engr.semiconductors
- Semiconductor devices, processes, materials, physics.
- sci.geo.geology
- Discussion of solid earth sciences.
- sci.image.processing
- Scientific image processing and analysis.
- sci.materials
- All aspects of materials engineering.
- sci.materials.ceramics
- Ceramic science.
- sci.med.immunology
- Medical/scientific aspects of immune illness.
- sci.med.pathology
- Pathology and laboratory medicine.
- sci.med.radiology
- All aspects of radiology.
- sci.nanotech
- Self-reproducing molecular-scale machines. (Moderated)
- sci.optics
- Discussion relating to the science of optics.
- sci.research
- Research methods, funding, ethics, and whatever.
- sci.research.careers
- Issues relevant to careers in scientific research.
- sci.research.postdoc
- Anything about postdoctoral studies, including offers.
- sci.techniques.microscopy
- The field of microscopy.
- sci.techniques.spectroscopy
- Entertainment in Hong Kong.
- sci.techniques.xtallography
- The field of crystallography.
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