KOGLIST: re: CogNeuro Discussion List

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 23:32:41 -0500 Reply-To: PSYCHE Discussion Forum <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)uga.cc.uga.edu> Sender: PSYCHE Discussion Forum <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)uga.cc.uga.edu> From: PATRICK WILKEN <X91007(a)pitvax.xx.rmit.edu.au> Subject: CogNeuro Discussion List X-To: psyche-d(a)nki.bitnet To: Multiple recipients of list PSYCHE-D <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)uga.cc.uga.edu> From: Peter G. Grossenbacher <pgg1001(a)phx.cam.ac.uk> This is the info. I have on the CogNeuro Mailing List. Hope it helps. -Patrick THE COGNEURO (COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE) MAILING LIST DATE This announcement is new as of 5/8/93. Please store it for reference. SUBJECT This list is an informal way to discuss phenomena at the interface of cognitive science and neuroscience. The discussion is scientific and academic. Topics include: o biological aspects of behavior; high level issues in neuroscience; o neuropsych issues in ethology, ecology, genetics, pharmacology; o imaging, simulation, innovative use of computers for cogneuro; o books, papers, paradigms, research directions, new results. o curricula, graduate programs, jobs, funding. Very important: o The list is self-moderating. Please read GUIDELINES below. o Please read HOW TO USE THIS LIST, below, BEFORE you subscribe or forward the list's address to a colleague. GUIDELINES The language of the list is English. The list is meant to be low in volume and high in S/N ratio. Controversy and informal speculation are as welcome as orthodoxy and rigor. Because cogneuro is a huge field, submissions shouldn't be off-topic or otherwise not essentially scientific or academic. Since the emphasis is scientific and academic, participants are expected to be both tolerant of other participants' opinions and choice of words and respectful in advance of their sensitivities. The list is initially open to anybody who is interested, but might be closed or restricted soon to keep the quality up. Although I don't expect ever to need to exercise it, I reserve the right to remove anybody from the list if there are problems, especially if these directions are not absorbed. I want to keep a spirit of free exchange of cognitive neuroscience. The premise upon which the list is founded is that no editor, censor, dictator, alpha male figure, or committee is likely to do as good a job in this context as your desire and that of your colleagues to MAINTAIN A REPUTATION FOR QUALITY. It is an exercise in SELF-MODERATION, and a potential model for future scientific collaboration on the net. It requires more from you, but I believe that it has the potential to bear fruit that will make it well worth while. I hope you join; please feel free to ask me any questions. HOW TO USE THIS LIST Would you like to avoid these common mailing list problems? o Sending a trivial administrative message to 500 of your colleagues, all over the world, in an age when the computer never forgets? o Being subscribed or unsubscribed unintentionally? o Experiencing anxiety over acknowledgements? Don't worry, avoiding mortification and inconvenience is EASY AS PIE. Just follow these directions EXACTLY! A word to the wise: the excruciating detail of this announcement is due to each of the above mistakes actually having occurred. With luck, this will prevent them. Note: THIS IS NOT LISTSERV. There are many types of mailing lists, only a few of which are Listserv. Listserv does not run under UNIX, to my knowledge, so its commands will not work. To UNSUBSCRIBE, send mail like this. To: cogneuro-request(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Subject: cogneuro: unsubscribe To SUBSCRIBE, send mail like this. To: cogneuro-request(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Subject: cogneuro: I read and understood the instructions In the body of your message, please write the DATE of this announcement (see above) and any information about yourself that you'd like me to know. You must have a FULL REAL NAME in the From: header, as well as an address. THERE WILL BE NO AUTOMATIC CONFIRMATION OR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but you might get a note from me welcoming you if I am not swamped with requests. There should be a delay of a day or two for all requests, since the mechanism is only semi-automatic and I am not on-line continuously. There is a human being on the other end of the line. (A live, breathing, real, emotion-feeling, existing, remembering human being, not a regression of computer homunculi. Please remember this.) You can usually add a "return-receipt-to: (your address)" header just above the subject header if your mailer allows you to. That will tell you that ptolemy received your mail, but it will not assure you that you are actually on or off the list. There is as yet no mechanism to assure this, but no subscriber who has followed the directions has had any difficulties. If you aren't sure, mail the administrator as below. To CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, or if you know that your MACHINE WILL GO DOWN for a while, or in case you LEAVE THE NET, say, for the summer, simply unsubscribe from your old address and resubscribe when you return to the net. If you want to be sure, you can put a note to the effect that that is what you are doing in the subject line after the "subscribe". If you REALLY want to be sure, wait a day or two before resubscribing, to let the unsubscribe take effect first. While you can SOMETIMES get away with not doing this (because the software can sometimes guess who you are), it risks a great deal of work on my part and anxiety on yours. (Note: the list has to have a constant full real name if you change your address, or the same address if you change your name. Otherwise, how can it possibly tell that you are the same person as the previous requester? Answer: it can't read minds.) To POST (send a message to everybody on the list), send mail to cogneuro(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov, or followup to an existing message. e.g. To: cogneuro(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Subject: corpus callosum To REPLY to the poster, just use the reply command of your mail reader as with any other message. Do be sure that the "cogneuro" addresses are not in the headers if you don't want your reply posted. To ask a METAQUESTION (a question or comment about the list), or if you have any PROBLEMS, send mail to the ADMINISTRATOR at cogneuro-request(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. Do not under any circumstances inconvenience the entire list with a problem. They will remember you! SUGGESTIONS for improving this announcement or the list are very welcome. This announcement is intended to balance giving you concise information with making sure that common errors don't occur. If YOUR MACHINE GOES DOWN for a long time, or for some other reason mail to you bounces, I might remove you from the list. It's nothing personal at all; it's just that I receive bounces for EVERY post to the list, and have to correct each one manually. If you are concerned that this might have happened, you can resubscribe without fear of double subscription. That is because my software, for all its shortcomings, does know who you are (by your full real name or your address, assuming you have not changed them -- see above) and usually won't think you're two people. If you get MULTIPLE MESSAGES, it might be because somebody is also gatewaying cogneuro to another, perhaps local, list that you are on. In that case, you can unsubscribe from either of the lists. If you're not sure, just contact me. Whatever you do, if you have a REQUEST, contact your friendly, unpaid administrator, me, at cogneuro-request. You must NOT mail it to the entire list, no matter what. It will not help in any way, and your request might be delayed. (If you are not already convinced, that this perhaps knowing that 500 of your reviewers and grant sources will be inconvenienced will work. It GALLS me to have to say this type of thing, for I believe in the community and the desire of most people to do the right thing, so I apologize. But it is NECESSARY to mention.) More things necessary to mention: Unless otherwise noted, SUBMISSIONS may be FORWARDED by list members to other interested people as long as the author and the list are attributed and quoted correctly. I generally try to protect subscribers' privacy, but PRIVACY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. Any IDENTITY you use must be consistent for as long as you are subscribed. Only subscribers may post. Any and all illegal activity is obviously your responsibility as a poster to prevent. The list is global. You will usually not receive BOUNCES from posts to the list unless they are due to problems getting from you to ptolemy. Bounces normally go to me; I usually fix them manually by removing the offending addresses. If you do get a bounce, it is usually something weird at another site. If you know how to debug it, I will appreciate your effort, as I am not an expert in mail transport. If not, don't worry too much about it, but if you haven't received the bounce before, please send an explanation, the full set of headers for the message you received, and the bounce, to "cogneuro-request" so that I can try to debug it when I have time. (Examples of this type of bounce are a gateway that is subscribed to the list under a user's name, a user who has a bad forwarding address and a nonstandard forwarding agent, etc. There is no way for any mailing list to prevent them from happening in advance.) Rarely, two different people with the same full real name (like two people named "John Q. Doe") get only one entry, so that only one is subscribed. To date, there have been no bugs in the software. That does not mean that there are not any. As I want to fix any bugs quickly, you must send me all headers and tell me what your symptoms were. (I can't read minds yet, so I can't tell that there is a problem unless you tell me, at the cogneuro-request address.) The list ARCHIVES are maintained manually or semi-automatically by Phil A. Hetherington <het(a)blaise.psych.mcgill.ca>ca>. Please arrange any archive requests with him. He is also a volunteer, so please take it easy on him. Things to remember (these hold true for almost all mailing lists): o Sending to "cogneuro" posts to the whole list. o Sending to "cogneuro-request" sends to me qua administrator. o Following up is for generally interesting posts. o Replying is for courtesy notes such as thank-yous. o Admin notes must only be sent to "cogneuro-request". o At your discretion, an archiving protocol such as ftp can be useful for distributing especially large files, files that are likely to be frequently requested in the future, or files that are likely to be updated frequently. o On this list, you moderate yourself. It's your reputation! o A cliche to remember: "The list is what you make of it". Again: o Admin notes must ONLY be sent to "cogneuro-request". o On this list, YOU moderate yourself. SUMMARY o GUIDELINES -- it's a self-moderated list. o HOW TO USE THIS LIST -- very important information. o SUBJECT -- cognitive neuroscience, academic & scientific. o DATE -- date of this announcement. END OF COGNEURO ANNOUNCEMENT Hope you like it; please feel free to ask me any questions. Kimball Collins AI Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Ctr, MS 269-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035 NET: kpc(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov; WORK: 415-604-1221; HOME: 415-941-3036 -- kpc(a)ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov cogneuro admin How does matter become aware? p6p8jLD(rw6L,97h@Z["'Jp"X8d@s4mtz9I>u`d[1eyo;(LBzM=s~5x;1wv0H+I6~f*YiUodZvYhtK> Ps/m#-j[Q&%V`;lSffgvXy2TT)AB/^-;Am>ne}=:D0y~I{Co~;V(IQ]]beaKl$[@c9T[&Mw>_{ASKnm (A random sig such as this one affirms that random speech is protected & free.)