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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:
 
[log in to unmask]
 
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: [log in to unmask]
Box 110620, Bldg 970            Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
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