Internet Directory for Botany - Listservers and Newsgroups

Listservers

• Base de Dados Tropical Discussion Lists, Brazil.
• BENE HyperMail, Texas, USA. This is a WWW interface to the BENE Email ListServer archives.
• Bromeliad Taxonomists and Growers Discussion List (brom-L). This is the read-only searchable archive for BROM-L@bdt.org.BR, the Bromeliad Taxonomists and Growers Discussion List, maintained by the Tropical Database (BDT) in Brazil.
• Conservation Biology Listserver, Colorado, USA.
• Fruit-of-the-Day Mailing List, USA.
• Internet Discussion Lists of Interest to Palynologists by Florin Neumann, Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Canada.
• Mailing Lists for Gardeners, a resume of lists compiled by Karen Fletcher, USA.
• NHCOLL-L, Natural History Collections Listserv - to subscribe, send an email message to listproc@cmp1.berkeley.edu. In the text field type: SUBSCRIBE NHCOLL-L followed by your full name. The list manager is Paula M. Sumpter.
• Phytopharmacognosy Discussion Group and Mailing List, UK. Discussion group/mailing list open to academics, industrialists and professionals who work with plant-based natural products. Subject areas include traditional herbal medicines, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, research on phytochemistry, ethnobotany and other related areas.
• Plant Taxonomy Gopher, UK. An open list for the discussion of plant taxonomy, primarily to promote a better understanding of the subject, and to provide an up to date forum for current views; searchable mail archives.
• TAXACOM Listserver Archives (WWW), Cornell, USA. Taxacom is a biological systematics discussion group. To subscribe TAXACOM, send message: subscribe taxacom your_name to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu. Also accessible via TAXACOM gopher.
• A list of Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists by Subject. - Publicly Accessible Mailing List - Index for Botany (in March 1996 only a couple of lists mentioned).

Newsgroups

• Garden plants
  • rec.gardens discussion group
  • rec.gardens.orchids discussion group
  • rec.gardens.roses FAQ. This page is a compilation of questions and answers that have appeared in the Usenet Newsgroup rec.gardens.roses on the Internet, and other articles that regular contributors to the newsgroup have written. The page is currently maintained at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, USA.
• Bionet
  • BioNet Newsgroups, W3 Consortium, hypermailed.
  • Bionet News Filtering Program by Pétér Fábián, Trieste, Italy.
  • BIOSCI, Bionet Electronic Newsgroup for Biology, via WWW. BIOSCI is a set of freely accessible electronic communication forums, newsgroups and parallel e-mail lists, for use by biological scientists worldwide.
• A selection of bionet. and sci. newsgroups of interest to botanists:
  • bionet.agroforestry, discussion of agroforestry.
  • bionet.announce, announcements of widespread interest to biologists
  • bionet.biology.computational, computer and mathematical applications
  • bionet.biology.grasses
  • bionet.biology.tropical, discussions about tropical biology
  • bionet.general, general BIOSCI discussion
  • bionet.journals.contents, contents of biological journals
  • bionet.mycology, mycological discussion group
  • bionet.plants, general discussion on plants
  • bionet.population-bio, population biology
  • bionet.software, software for biology
  • bionet.software.www
  • sci.bio.botany, the scientific study of plants
  • sci.bio.misc, general discussion on biology and related sciences
  • sci.bio.systematics, systematics, taxonomy, and the tree of life
  • sci.bio.ecology
  • sci.bio.evolution; searchable archive to sci.bio.evolution discussion group.
  • sci.bio.phytopathology

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