email & mailinglists
Email is the modern form of person to person document exchange
(pictures, sound-files, etc can be send too). Both, sender and
recipient, must have access to a computer, which must provide
email-functionality and shoud be switched on 24h a day.
Advantage: the person to whom the mail is addressed will read
it, when it connects to its mailbox (that´s where all the mail
is stored in absence).
Mailinglists can be reached like a person with the difference
that they are programms. This will forward the message to a
list of persons. A replay to a mail will be send to the list
and provided to all subscribed persons, too. We discussed
different sort of mailinglists and the use and the kind of
informations provided on some existing lists. Often these list
have an archiv of former mails, so that new persons can get
informations about older discussions.
news
News is a service to provide informations to readers all over the world. The messages are sorted by subject and collected in so called news groups. To take part in a discussion you must have access to a news-server (the computer which stores the texts and provides it to your newsreader). After you connected to the server you´ll get a number of groups. After you entered a group, you can read all messages and answer to them - the news will then be spread to all the other readers. Advantage: Everyone can find the information, so he uses the news-service.
Differences between news and mailinglists
Mailinglists are usfull for a certain number of persons who are
temporarily in need of a discussion forum. The informations are
delivered to each person who will find them in its mailbox.
Problems occur in case of a long term use: Persons will leave
the list and new one must join.
News are in advantage when there is a topic to be discussed
permanently. These groups are open to every person and the
informations are spread worldwide (red or not).
talk, irc, internet-phone
These services were discussed more in sense of entertainement. The problem is, that all persons must be present on the net at a certain time to get the informations or to take part in the discussion. So only urgent events should/could be discussed in these ways.
WWW
Is short for the „World Wide Web“. This loose network of servers exist only by using links. These links (or: URL) connect different HTML-files. HTML is the abbreviation for Hyper Text Markup Language. This language garantees that the pages look everywhere the same. To use the Web, you need access to a special programm (netscape, MS-Internet-Explorer, etc).
We looked and worked with the programm Eudora light. We send an email and discussed the function of the differend fields in a mail-header. Afterwards, we discussed some of the functionalities of an email-programm: replay to:sends an answear to a recieved mail; replay to all: is usefull when there are a lot of persons on the cc-field - it will send a replay to all people named there; forward: sends a recieved mail to an other person (e.g. to inform or to initiate an action).
WWW
It was shown how to use the netscape-programm. We discussed further the use of a proxie-cache to speed up access to distant pages.
Information network
Here, we thought about initiating an information network of
biology students resources. We discussed different solutions
and possibilities. We decided to start with a homepage, from
where everyone can access different informations. Important
informations are: addresses of the representations combined
with links; general infos (such as: history and idea of
SymBioSE); specific informations about each meeting
(Informations in advance and afterwards, the reader).
The pages with the addresses of the representations of a
country should be located at a university of that country to
provide actuality and correctness. A
central page to be used as an example is located in germany in
Karlsruhe (bio-MAP).
A HTML-file will be provided at the end of the meeting.
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