Crystallography Newsgroup - Participating in the newsgroup

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Participating in the newsgroup

Homepage located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/stx/welcome.htm

How to subscribe (no cost involved)

Using your Internet/Usenet newsreading program, use the subscribe procedure unique to your newsreading software to select the sci.techniques.xtallography .

If you do not seem to have the newsgroup on your organisation's or Internet provider's news server, contact the administrators and have them add this newsgroup which should be a trivial procedure for them to do.

More information with examples can be obtained from:
The Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.index.html
Under the topic of "Newsgroups" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.gen.html
And the subtopic of "Graphical Installation and Setup of a Newsreading Program" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.set.html.

Sending articles and messages

Using your Internet/Usenet newsreading program, use the "post" procedure unique to your newsreading software and post to sci.techniques.xtallography .

More information with examples can be obtained from:
The Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.index.html
Under the topic of "Newsgroups" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.gen.html
And the subtopic of "Graphical Example Use of a Newsreading Program" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.use.html.

Continuing a Discussion

When participating in a newsgroup, you can continue the discussion by either "following-on" a response to the entire newsgroup, or sending a reply directly to the author via email. Below is more detailed information on how to accomplish this.

To Reply Only to the Author

Using your Internet/Usenet newsreading program, highlight the message you wish to contact the author to and use the "reply" procedure unique to your newsreading software.

More information with examples can be obtained from:
The Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.index.html
Under the topic of "Newsgroups" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.gen.html
And the subtopic of "Graphical Example Use of a Newsreading Program" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.use.html.

To "To "Follow-on" Your Comments to Everyone

Using your Internet/Usenet newsreading program, highlight the message that you wish to continue the discussion on and use the "followon" procedure unique to your newsreading software.

More information with examples can be obtained from:
The Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.index.html
Under the topic of "Newsgroups" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.gen.html
And the subtopic of "Graphical Example Use of a Newsreading Program" at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/int.news.use.html.

Unsubscribing Yourself From the Newsgroup

Using your Internet/Usenet newsreading program, use the unsubscribe procedure unique to your newsreading software to select the sci.techniques.xtallography .

Please feel free to send any queries, comments or suggestions to: lachlan@melbpc.org.au