Julie Wilkerson (I think I got that right) asked "Why another Bulletin
Board?"  I think she may have her cyberterminology confused.  What NCURA is
proposing (I don't know about the SRA proposal) is a bulletin board, more
correctly a gopher, and not a list like RESADM-L.  NCURAs region III has
already initiated its own gopher which includes (or will include) information
on the parent organization, the regional organization, job opportunities in the
southeast (hey, we're provincial and damn proud of it!), sample policies and
procedures for small/medium/large (and medical) organizations and several
other forms of information which I don't recall.  The gopher is accessible
through Georgia Tech (enter "gopher gopher.gatech.edu 4025" or "telnet gopher.g
atech.edu") Telneting will require that you log in as "ncura" (IMPORTANT: use
lower case letters only).  You'll then receive a menu screen and can navigate
your way to the information you want.

The importnat point is that a gopher or bulletin board of this type serves a
very different purpose from a list like RESADM-L.  Both are needed.  Multiple
BBS can include different types of information (NCURA, SRA, etc) so you can
pick and choose what you want.  By making these BBS systems gophers you should
be able to burrow from one to another without every surfacing for air!  Lists
OTOH provide more conversational, or question and answer information.  I would
agree that we don't need multiple lists on the same topic.  Right now monitorin
g RESADM-L GRANTS-L (both NSF and the International version @gsuvm1 and the
extremely quiet NCURASE-L is about all I can handle at one time.

Richard H. Moore
Asst. Vice President, Grants and Sponsored Research

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