Almanac Mailing List Catalog Extension Service Oregon State University October 5, 1992 Almanac is the server for a number of mailing lists. Electronic mailing lists, also known as "mailing groups", "reflectors" or "exploders", are much like physical mailing lists. If you have an e-mail address, you can simply subscribe to a list. After that, you will receive every message that is "posted" to the list. Some lists are two-way forums, in which the subscribers of the list post messages to each other. Others are one-way servers which send out reports, newsletters and other periodicals to the subscribers. Do not send mail to server lists. For information on how to subscribe to these lists: send guide Following is a list of the mailing lists currently served by Almanac, along with some relevant information about the list. If a list has an "Archive" line, then past articles can be retrieved through Almanac. Note that there are also hundreds of "Market News" reports that can be subscribed to. For a list: send market-news catalog --+-- Address: alm-news-mg Type: Server Descrip: Informal newsletter informing Almanac users of new features in the Oregon Extension Service's Almanac server. This group deals only with OES's instantiation of Almanac. Archive send alm-news-mg catalog Address: extech-mg Type: Forum Descrip: Discussion group for personnel of Extension Services around the country who are interested in solving problems through the application of information technologies. Archive: send extech-mg catalog Address: fdmktnews-mg Type: Server Desecrip: Newsletter on the trends and prices of food commodities. Written by Mary Mennes of the University of Wisconsin and distributed nationally through Oregon State University Extension. Archive: send fdmktnews-mg catalog Address: agam-mg Type: Server Descrip: Summary of the day's agricultural news appearing in major newspapers and magazines. Produced daily by the Office of Public Affairs, USDA. Copyright restrictions limit distribution of this information only to employees of Oregon State University. Archive: send agam-mg catalog Address: usda-press-mg Type: Server Descrip: Press releases produced by the Office of Public Affairs, USDA. Archive: send usda-press-mg catalog Address: cur-dev-mg Type: Server Descrip: Weekly newsletter of Dr. Myron Johnsrud, Administrator, ES/USDA. Address: farmbill-mg Type: Server Descrip: Press releases and other information relating to the 1991 farmbill. Information originates at ES/USDA. Address: sanet-mg Type: Forum Descrip: Mailing list for the discussion of information about sustainable agriculture information dissemination. Archive: send sanet-mg catalog Address: cite-mg Type: Server Descrip: Electronic newsletter of the Communication Information and Technology unit of Extension Service/Department of Agriculture. Address: weather-or-mg Type: Server Descrip: Daily Oregon weather report. This is the wire report from the National Weather Service. The report is sent out at approxi- mately 8:15am every day. The information is courtesy of OSU's Atmopheric Sciences Department.