From mps.ohio-state.edu!pedro Wed Jan 8 19:30:49 1992 Message-Id: From: saizar@osu.edu (Pedro Saizar) To: randy@psg.com Date: Wed Jan 8 19:30:45 1992 Subject: A Guide to the Latin-American Mailing Lists No. 24-P Status: RO ###################################################################### # A GUIDE TO THE LATIN-AMERICAN MAILING LISTS No. 24-P # ###################################################################### Date: January 8, 1992 INTRODUCTION You will find here electronic mail addresses and information that will help you to locate and subscribe to the latin american mailing list of your choice. The lists included here are mainly for professional or other specific purposes. Mailing lists open for general discussion and exchange of news are presented in a separate file. You should write to the appropriate e-mail to subscribe or get more information. Please, DO NOT SEND ME REQUESTS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS! I do not administrate any mailing list. Membership in these lists is subject to the approval by their administrators. Some lists use LISTSERVERS. This is mentioned in the Service line. The name of the listserver is in parentheses next to the word Listserver. If you don't know how to use a listserver, please refer to the simple instructions at the end of this file. The mailing lists listed here are non-commercial (free access) and one member volunteers to administrate a list. For more information about the regulations concerning electronic mail, please refer to the appropriate documents in the public directories of your system or ask your system manager. In each entry of this guide, you will find: 1. the professional field and the region covered by the list; 2. a short description of its purpose and interests; 3. the type of list (mailing, listserver, etc.); 4. the e-mail addresses to contact the list; 5. the status to date (active-planned-unknown); 6. additional information, such as the dominant language or membership. Please, send any corrections or additions to the address below. Pedro Saizar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Astronomy Department Internet: pedro@mps.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University Internet: saizar@osu.edu Columbus, OH 43210-1106 Bitnet: pedro@ohstpy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX # Topic Region List name 01.1 Artificial Intell. Mexico, L.America IAMEX-L 02.1 Astronomy Latin America ASTR-O 03.1 Computer Science Latin America REDALC 03.2 Computer Science Chile CHILENET 03.3 Computer Science Puerto Rico SIRIAC-L 03.4 Computer Science Brazil COMP-NET 04.1 Health Science Latin America, USA PANET-L 05.1 Informatics Latin America ESLAI 06.1 Physics Latin America FISICA-L 07.1 Psychology The Americas IAPSY-L 08.1 Social Science Quebec RQSS Appendix: Listservers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-01.1 ***** ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: Mexico, Latin America 2. Description: a listserver devoted to the exchange of ideas and discussion of practical applications of AI. It is located at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. 3. Service: listserver (IAMEX-L) 4. E-mail addresses: -Subscriptions/information: (see additional information below) -Messages to the members: IAMEX-L@tecmtyvm.bitnet; or: IAMEX-L@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx -Administrators: J. M. Gomez Puertos (PL500368@tecmtyvm); or: F. Careaga Sanchez (PL57961@tecmtyvm) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: students and researchers with some experience the field are eligible for membership. To subscribe, please send e-mail to one of the administrators asking for the registration form. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-02.1 ***** ASTRONOMY 1. Cultural/geographical region: Latin America 2. Description: a list devoted to exchange of information in Astronomy, announcement of conferences, coordination of observations and related activities. 3. Service: mailserver (ASTR-O) 4. E-mail addresses: -Subscriptions/information: mailserv@brfapesp.ansp.br; or: mailserv@brfapesp.bitnet -Messages to the members: astr-o@brfapesp.ansp.br; or: astr-o@brfapesp.bitnet -Administrator: Augusto Daminelli (daminelli%iagusp@brfapesp.bitnet; or daminelli@iag.usp.ansp.br) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Aditional Information: this mailsever works like a listserver (see section 10.0). This list was created by the Sociedade Astronomica Brasileira. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-03.1 ***** COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: LATINAMERICA, CARIBBEAN 2. Description: A list for the discussion on the creation and status of latinamerican and caribbean computer networks. Its name is REDALC (Red de America Latina y el Caribe). 3. Service: Listserver (REDALC). 4. E-mail addresses: -Information/subscriptions: listserv@frmop11.bitnet -Messages to the members: ulat-rd@frmop11.bitnet -Administrator: Daniel Pimienta (ulat-dp@frmop11.bitnet) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional Information: Membership about 150. Dominant language, Spanish. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-03.2 ***** COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: CHILE 2. Description: A mailing list, based in Chile, for discussions about the configuration of computer networks in that country. 3. Service: Listserver (CHILENET) 4. E-mail addresses: -Subscriptions/information: listserv@uchcecvm.bitnet -Messages to the members: chilenet@uchcecvm.bitnet -Administrators: Enrique Olivares Canouet (eolivar@uchcecvm.bitnet), Victor Cid Sepulveda (vcid@uchcecvm.bitnet) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-03.3 ***** COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: LATINAMERICA, CARIBBEAN 2. Description: A list for the discussion on the implementation of the Latinamerican and Caribbean Academic and Scientific Computer Network and SIRIAC (Academic and Scientific Informatic Resources Integrated System) activities. 3. Service: Listserver (SIRIAC-L) 4. E-mail addresses: - Information/subscriptions: LISTSERVER@ENLACE.BITNET - Messages to the members: SIRIAC-L@ENLACE.BITNET - Administrator: Rafael Pirazzi R_PIRAZZI@ENLACE.BITNET or R_PIRAZZI@RACIN.CLU.NET 5. Status: Active 6. Additional information: Dominant language, Spanish (full spanish character set is supported). A list of nodes in Latinoamerica and the Caribbean of principal networks (nodes.list) is updated monthly and available >from the listserv using the command GET. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-03.4 ***** COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: BRAZIL 2. Description: A mailing list to discuss any topics of interest to the brazilian computer science community. 3. Service: mailserver (COMP-NET) 4. E-mail addresses: -Subscriptions: mailserv@fpsp.fapesp.ansp.br -Messages to other members: comp-net@fpsp.fapesp.ansp.br -Administrator: Tomasz Kowaltowski (tomasz@dcc.unicamp.ansp.br) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-04.1 ***** HEALTH SCIENCES 1. Cultural/geographical region: LATIN-AMERICA, U.S.A. 2. Description: This list is intended to provide a forum for the sharing of information and discussion within the academic health professions and among those seeking "Health for All in the Year 2000". 3. Service: listserver (PANET-L) 4. E-mail adresses: -Subscriptions: listserv@yalevm.bitnet -Messages to other members: panet-l@yalevm.bitnet -Administrators: Dr. Art St. George (STGEORGE@UNMB.BITNET) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Dominant language: English, although some information appears in Spanish. Membership is open to all nationalities and health care disciplines, although emphasis is on Latin America and the field of medicine. The Listserver is a collaborative effort between the Health Manpower Development Office (HSM) of the Pan American Health Organization and the Panamerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools (PAFAMS). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-05.1 ***** PROFESSIONALS: INFORMATICS 1. Cultural/geographical region: Latin America 2. Description: a list devoted to exchange of information between the graduates and people close to the ESLAI (Escuela Superior LatinoAmericana de Informatica). 3. Service: Mailing list. 4. E-mail addresses: -Suscriptions/Information: mandel@forwiss.uni-passau.de -Messages to the members: eslai@forwiss.uni-passau.de -Administrator: Luis Mandel 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: dominant language, spanish. Membership, about 40, by Apr 23, 1991. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-06.1 ***** PHYSICS 1. Cultural/geographical region: Latin America 2. Description: a list devoted to exchange of information in Physics, announcement of conferences, coordination of observations and related activities. 3. Service: listserver (FISICA-L) 4. E-mail addresses: -Subscriptions/information: migueltr@brufmg.anmg.br or: listerv@brufmg.bitnet -Messages to the members: fisica-l@brufmg.anmg.br or: fisica-l@brufmg.bitnet -Administrator: Miguel Tostes Ribeiro (migueltr@brufmg.anmg.br). 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Aditional Information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- P-07.1 ***** PSYCHOLOGY 1. Cultural/geographical region: NORTH, CENTRAL, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN 2. Description: This list is intended to facilitate communication and collaboration among psychologists throughout the Americas, and to aid the Interamerican Society for Psychology/Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia in its activities. 3. Service: Listserver (IAPSY-L) 4. E-MAIL addresses: -Subscriptions/information: listserv@albnyvm1.bitnet or: listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu -Messages to other members: iapsy-l@albnyvm1.bitnet or: iapsy-l@uacsc2.albany.edu -Administrator: Bernardo M. Ferdman (bmf13@albnyvm1.bitnet; bmf13@uacsc2.albany.edu) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: The languages of the list are English, French, Portuguese and Spanish (the languages of the ISP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P-08.1 ***** SOCIAL SCIENCE 1. Cultural/geographical region: QUEBEC 2. Description: A mailing list for social scientists interested in research in Quebec or about Quebec, called "Regroupement quebecois des sciences sociales". There are also additional mailing lists on Quebec (see additional information). 3. Service: Listserver (RQSS) 4. E-mail adresses: -Subscriptions: listserv@uquebec.bitnet -Messages to other members: rqss@uquebec -Administrators: Pierre J. Hamel (hamel@inrs-urb.uquebec.ca; hamel@uquebec.bitnet) 5. Status: ACTIVE 6. Additional information: Dominant language, French; for information on 9 other related lists send the command INDEX RQSS to the listserver. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix: LISTSERVERS Some lists use listservers, programs that need instructions from the user to receive or distribute information. The user can use the listserver by sending e-mail with "commands" that are acceptable to the program. For instance, to subscribe and get help from the MEXICO-L listserver, send e-mail to listserv@tecmtyvm.bitnet, including as text of the mail these lines: SUB MEXICO-L HELP to quit the list send e-mail to that address with this command: SIGNOFF. To send messages to the members, you need to send your mail to the address served by the listserver. The "username" is given in parentheses in the Service line (item 3). In our case, the e-mail address is: mexico-l@tecmtyvm.bitnet All listservers work in the same way. Read the instructions you will receive to learn new commands and procedures. If you have problems using this facility contact your system manager or the appropriate administrator. Un saludo Alvaro Ramirez Stavanger .