ISAP Remain- in-Touch

International Society for Anti-Infective Pharmacology (Founded in 1991)
Remain in Touch...

To remain electronically in touch with ISAP and his members, you are offered the following two, non-mutually exclusive means:

get automatic E-mail notice that our WEB page has changed (new activities, new meeting annoucements, etc...);
subscribe to our diffusion list <isap_list> to receive timely annoucements and news as well as to send your contributions.

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Automatic E-mail Notice that ISAP WEB page(s) have been changed

This service is offered free of charge by NETMIND. Netmind's robot scans WEB pages registered with it on a daily basis. If a change is noticed and you are a subscriber for that page, a short E-mail is sent to you telling you that a change has occured (each message indicates the URL of the page you asked this service for; if you have a recent version of Eudora and Netscape, or a similar mail programme, you only need to click on this URL to load the page; each message also gives instructions as how to cancel this service if no longer desired).

To register with NETMIND for ISAP "What 's new" WEB page, just fill up the following form (this page will always contain a summary of the changes in all ISAP pages with appropriate links; to register other WEB pages, contact NETMIND directly).

!! This will connect you to the NETMIND Web site in the U.S. Depending of the time of the day, the connexion can be fairly slow if from ouside North America (especially between 2pm and 8pm GMT 0 time). You MUST wait for a COMPLETE load of each Web page sent by NEMIND before answering any question on that page (check that the Netscape or Internet Explorer "window" has come to immobility and/or that your status line says "Document done").

The steps NETMIND will make are as follows:

(1) sending of a NETMIND page with request for re-confirmation of your E-mail address, and selection of your choices for warning (evry time the page changes, once-a-week, etc...), and acceptance of the terms and conditions of service; if your original request was innapropriateley filled, additional Web pages will be sent with further questions);

(2) sending of another NETMIND page with a preliminary confirmation of your registration.

You may quit at this stage; to come back to the present ISAP page and to previous ones, just click several times on the 'Back' button of your browser;

(3) after a few hours, sending of an E-mail message for definitive confirmation of your regisitration (during this period of time, NETMIND checks that our server is working properly; if our server does not answer at the time NETMIND checks it, you will be warned but you will need to redo the registration process from scratch).

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Subscribing to ISAP diffusion list (<isap_list>)

ISAP diffusion list is a moderated list maintained on a university INTERNET server (<lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be>) on behalf of and as a courtesy to ISAP. If you know what that means, click here; if you don't, read up the following information.

A diffusion list is merely a set of electronic adresses kept on a central server by the organizer(s) of the list (list_owner), and which is used to send or relay messages "en-bloc" to all subscribers of the list. Subscribers may also send messages to the server (as a simple E-mail message) for communication to all other subscribers. To be on the list and being able to both receive the annoncements and to send annoucements or comments to all other ISAP members, you need to register with owner of the list (removing your-self from the list can be done by your-self at any time).

In INTERNET present days two main types of lists exist (i) the non-moderated, and (ii) the moderated ones. The major difference is the way messages are handled. In non-moderated lists, everyone is able to send message(s) to the server which will then simply but blindly relay the un-edited message(s) to all subscribers. While this seems like a nice democratic forum, it often results in confusion, dissemination of unreliable news etc..., just to name a few of the less annoying problems. In moderated lists, a physical person acts as the recipient of all incoming messages. It is then up to him to decide which messages will be relayed, possibly after editing. He will also act as the middleman between the organizers of the list and the actual operators of the server to send out messages of general interest to the subscribers.

To be effective and useful, the list (i.e. the set of lectronic adresses and the software to run the system) must be maintained on an INTERNET server in a stable way (the address must not be changed too often to avoid inconvenience the subscribers). The server must be operating at all time and must preferably be on a main INTERNET highway or node so that all subscribers have a fast and reliable service. The server must also perate at no cost, since there is no simple way of setting up accounts and collecting fees from the subscribers to the list. For these reasons, most lists are "housed" in university servers (commercial servers may get closed for a number of reasons foreign to the purpose of the list and may also charge high fees for the maintenance of the lists and for access)

The ISAP diffusion list is physically located in Brussels, Belgium on the WEB server of the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Louvain (name of the server: <lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be> or <130.104.5.1>), as a courtesy to ISAP. All techicalities are therefore taken care of at this site, but this is totally transparant for the subscribers. Subscribers should therefore not contact this site directly unless they feel it absolutely necessary and only for major technical reasons.

The moderation of the ISAP diffusion list will be provisonnaly made by Paul M. Tulkens (ISAP President-elect; <tulkens@facm.ucl.ac.be>) in close conjunction with the Secretary/Treasurer (Prof. G.G. Zhanel <ggzhanel@pcs.mb.ca> and the Associate Secretary (Dr J. Mouton <mouton@bacl.azr.nl>)

The ISAP diffusion list is maintained, operated and moderated by the ISAP officers for the purpose of improving communication among ISAP members. In order to avoid undue annoyance and to preserve the quality of the communication, messages will be sent sparingly and always edited by ISAP officers. Messages should not be considered as a means of communicating or seeking scientific informations that would normally be conveyed through scientific Journals, meetings and so on. Queries should be limited to topics directly related to the Society's goals and purposes. Accurateness of the informations and confidentiality (explicit of implied) beyond ISAP membership connot be garanteed and all responsibility in this context is hereby explicitely disclaimed by ISAP. To avoid unwanted dificulties and technical problems, the following rules will be applied:

subscription to the list will be subjected to appropriate verification by ISAP officers;
all submissions for posting on the list and relaying to other subscribers should be made directly to the list owner (<owner-isap@md.ucl.ac.be> [note the dash between owner and isap]) by E-mail with the understanding that the submission is made to ISAP officers;
long documents which in the list owner's opinion may cause transmission problems or clutter the recipients' mailboxes will only be E-mailed in a short summary form and the full document(s) put on an appropriate server for download by interested subscribers.

If you agree with the above and wish to subscribe to ISAP diffusion list, fill up the following form for on-line subscription (you may also use a printable form and send it by fax or postal mail)

ISAP diffusion list (<isap_list>) subscription form (on line subscription)

Your request will be transmitted to ISAP officers who will notify you of its acceptance.

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Sending contributions to ISAP moderated diffusion list (<isap_list>)

To send a contribution, E-mail it to <owner-isap@md.ucl.ac.be> with appropriate enclosures. We will make the necessary format conversions but try to resrict your-self to widely-used word-processing or presentation softwares; in case of doubt, send the enclosures as ASCII files).

Make sure that you have read and uderstood or know the principles of our moderated diffusion list.

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Last update: June 19th, 1998