Re: CCL:G:News and woos from coordinator

 And needs apppreciation -- Charlie Bender
 At 12:43 AM 8/28/95, Jan Labanowski wrote:
 >Dear Netters,
 >
 >Occassionally, I need to say that I am here... Do not take it, please, as:
 >  "Your daddy is talking"...
 >I am simply trying to do my job...
 >
 >Now, you can try the new look of the CCL home page (Alan Chalker, my
 >student assistant, is doing a fine job, but I still think about
 improvements,
 >so it is not yet an "official" page, but, see for yourself...)
 >   http://www.ccl.net/chemtest.html
 >and comment, please...
 >
 >Now, some people asked me (prompted by the change of list's address from
 >chemistry (+ at +) ccl.net to chemistry (+ at +) www.ccl.net), if I got the
 support for the
 >list. Carefully crafted {:-)} answer is: yes and no...
 >Your letters of support were used inside the OSC to help me get, a more or
 >less, dedicated machine for the CCL and delay the cutoff date. As the
 proposal
 >for extramural support is concerned, it is still pending...
 >If I get it, you will be the first to know.
 >
 >You will notice on some messages that the Subject starts from:
 >     CCL:G:        -- to identify that words Gaussian or G9* were used
 >                      within a message
 >     CCL:M:        -- to identify that the word MOPAC was used within a
 message
 >
 >I am getting some remarks from subscribers that these topics
 >are occupying too much of the CCL. I insist that they are within a scope of
 >the list, and if they are asked, they may be needed. Of course, I know
 >about help (+ at +) gaussian.com, but some people want to contact actual
 users.
 >On the other hand, I wished that the questions were sometimes asked in a
 more
 >useful way... Which prompts me to give a sermon...  {:-)}
 >
 >The list is to get and give. If you get (and even if you do not...) try to
 >give... (OK, OK, but I heard this long before JFK said something to this
 >effect, and I am also trying to be "gentlier and kindlier"...).
 Before you ask
 >the list for help, try to see, if you can find the answer yourself. Many
 >questions were asked and answered before. You can search the archives of
 CCL.
 >Send a message:
 >   help search
 >to MAILSERV (+ at +) www.ccl.net to find out how. Yes, it is clumsy, and I
 am
 >working on a better document and search engine, but the old stuff is still
 >usable, so use it please. It is not that difficult, after you try a few
 times.
 >And if you find something pertinent, at least you can start the discussion
 >on a higher level. If you cannot find the answer, ask the list, but try
 >to make your question interesting and useful to others -- e.g., say more how
 >did you run into the problem, tell what you do, etc...
 >
 >And if you get the answer(s), try to summarize it and post it back to the
 >CCL. We want to learn what you learned. And if you summarize, please
 >try to make the messages compact, just quote the important lines which
 >helped you to solve the problem giving credit. The whole headers or
 redundant
 >information is not needed in such a summary -- try to make it selfcontained
 >but also short if possible.
 >
 >Now, please adhere to rules of the list. They are available from the
 >home page: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html but can also be retrieved
 >via e-mail by sending a message:
 >   help chemistry
 >to MAILSERV (+ at +) www.ccl.net
 >If you are in doubt, if something fits the profile of the list, please
 >ask me before posting. My reject file gets longer and longer (the reject
 >file lists addresses of people who sinned, and I need to review their
 >messages before they are posted to the list), and I hate to be a censor.
 >
 >I hope, I did enough preaching for today. Tomorrow, or in the next few
 >days, I plan to share my impressions (very limited, in fact) from the ACS
 >Meeting in Chicago. So beware...
 >
 >Jan Labanowski
 >The CCL Watchdog (old, worn out, teethless, but still barking)
 >jkl (+ at +) ccl.net
 >
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