Subject: Seabird Listserver (fwd)
Date: Jan 25 13:52:09 2000
From: Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney - festuca at olywa.net


Hi folks,

Having cross-posted a few pertinent (I hope...) messages from the
SeaBird-l list, I have had several people ask me about the list, how to
subscribe, etc. Here is the information from the list owner, and I hope
that it's helpful to those who were interested.

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:18:12 SAST-2
From: John Cooper <jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za>
To: seabird at uct.ac.za
Subject: [SEABIRD] Seabird Listserver

Seabird-L members (all 752 of us!) may find it convenient to see the
instructions again. Please forward to colleagues.

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SEABIRD-L

MEMBERSHIP of Seabird-L, a listserver about seabirds and for marine
ornithologists, is not restricted in any way.

The listserver was initiated in August 1993 to help marine
ornithologists exchange information and to keep in contact on a
worldwide basis. On 24 January 2000 membership stood at 752.

Examples of its use are requests for and offers of information,
ideas, data and collected material (such as skeletal and soft-tissue
samples), advertising employment, bursary, fellowship and volunteer
opportunities, notices of meetings, availability of written materials
(e.g. expedition reports, books, proceedings, reprints), etc.

All e-mail messages posted on Seabird-L will automatically be sent to
all subscribers.

Seabird-L is managed by John Cooper (jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za),
Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701,
South Africa.

Receipt of this message does not mean that you have automatically
been made a subscriber of the listserver. Your privacy is being
fully respected and your e-mail address will only be
added to Seabird-L's address list (and therefore be available to all
its members) if you join the listserver as detailed below.

To join Seabird-L send to

LISTSERVER at UCT.AC.ZA

the following in the FIRST LINE of the MESSAGE FIELD of an e-mail
message:

SUBSCRIBE SEABIRD

This MUST be followed on a new line by a double dash <-->,

An acknowledgement will automatically be sent to new
members, confirming they have been added to the membership.

**** To have your e-mail address removed from the listserver, follow
the above procedure, but use "UNSUBSCRIBE SEABIRD". ****

To post messages send them to SEABIRD at UCT.AC.ZA. You will receive your message back as confirmation it has been sent out to all
subscribers, but only if you have previously subscribed.


To receive the information message on the SEABIRD listserver, send in
the message field, followed by a double dash <--> on a new line, to
LISTSERVER at UCT.AC.ZA

INFORMATION SEABIRD

Also available are archival files which contain e-mail messages sent
to the listserver in the current calendar year and in previous years.
These are available by sending in the message field, followed by a
double dash <--> on a new line, to LISTSERVER at UCT.AC.ZA

INDEX SEABIRD

This will automatically send you the list of archive files, along
with instructions on how to retrieve them.

Also available is an alphabetical e-mail and postal address list
which contains all the current subscribers to the listserver, along
with their research interests if given. It is automatically
accessible by sending in the first line of the message field,
followed by a double dash <--> on a new line, to
LISTSERVER at UCT.AC.ZA

WHO SEABIRD

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__________________________________________________________

John Cooper
Coordinator

BirdLife International Seabird Conservation Programme

based at the
Avian Demography Unit
Department of Statistical Sciences
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7700
South Africa

jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za

Website: http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/seabirds

Office Phone: +27-21-650-3426
Office Fax: +27-21-650-3434
Home Phone: +27-21-685-1357 (answering machine)

"Help albatrosses avoid death by drowning:
encourage responsible longline fishing"
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