Re: Biosym Mail List - no luck!

[shenkin.,at,.still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)]

 > 	I am sure many of you are registered with the mail list for
 > the Biosym softwares (Insight, Discover, etc.)!  I have tried 3 times
 > and am still not registered.  I would appreciate it if someone who
 > registered in recent 3 months would tell me how to!
 The current DIBUG request address is:
 	dibug-request.,at,.comp.bioz.unibas.ch
 If you were using something else, please try this.
 > 	BTW, why there is not a newsgroup on the usenet for this?
 > Many less popular groups are out there!  Am I wrong?
 Whether by "this" you mean Biosym or computational chemistry,
 the answer is probably that any networked site can send/receive
 mail without special software, whereas special software is
 needed to read news, and administering news at a site is both
 time-consuming and a bore.  Most scientists get a workstation
 and hook it up, and don't want to have to bother with this.
 Also, a scan of sci.chem on Usenet ought to give you an idea
 why "real" chemists might prefer something else....  (Unless
 it's improved lately -- it's been years since I unsubscribed.)
 	-P.
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