Rzepa, Henry wrote: : : I was invited to the Current Science group by Ian Tarr in the : form of a friendly e-mail message to discuss this issue. I visited : them yesterday. : : I am advised that chemweb.com was registered as a domain : name in August 1995 by Current Science, but : is not yet in common use. There is no registration mechanism : for E-mail lists. Chemweb as an e-mail list now been in : common usage for some 9 months. My understanding : from both local advice and from Current Publishing : is that we have two options. : : a) Continue the discussion list with its current name and : location, but making it clear that the list bears no association : with the subscription club with the name chemweb.com : One way of doing this is via a message retrievable via : info chemweb : sent to listserver@ic.ac.uk. : : b) Current Science have offered to host the chemweb : discussion list on their own server, and have invited me : to continue moderation if I wish. : : My inclination is that if there is significant positive demand for : course b) we might wish to consider it. If anyone feels : that we should consider route b) then mail me and I : will summarise for the list. If no significant positive : response is received, I will assume the status quo : will continue. : There are already a plethora of science/chemistry related groups that use the same name/abbrev. (eg. ACS). I don't think we need to add to the problem. If Cur.Sci is willing to maintain the status quo (i.e. free and open internet chemistry mailing list) but provide you CPU cycles then I'd go for "b". This also has the added advantage in that they get positive PR for maintaing a free access chem list while you might have the opportunity to utilize Cur.Sci resources for the benefit of the free list. My $0.02, -Brian -- ============================================================================= | .---------.| Brian W. Beck | E-mail Addresses: | |/\ | || Biochem/Biophysics | brian@bert.chem.wsu.edu | || \\ WSU || Washington St. Univ| brian_beck@wsu.edu | |\ - *|| 206 Fulmer | URL http://elmo.chem.wsu.edu/~brian | | | || Pullman, WA, USA | VOICE (509) 335-4083 | | \___________|| 99164-4660 | FAX (509) 335-9688 | ============================================================================= ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)