Distributed to: USR:[MTS]INTERNET.DIS;87, mts 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ---------- Apis on the World Wide Web: http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~entweb/apis/apis.htm ======================================================