Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

If you know of other microscopy newsgroups or mailing lists, please let me know so that I can add them to this page. Send an e-mail to chris@stowey.demon.co.uk with the details.

3-D Imaging

Mailing List

Not entirely aimed at microscopists of course, but this mailing list is certainly of interest to anyone working with 3-D visualisation by means of computer graphics.

To subscribe, send a mail to listserv@bobcat.etsu.edu containing the single word 'subscribe'.

Post messages to list members by e-mailing sd3d@bobcat.etsu.edu, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

Confocal Microscopy

This is a good place to pick up information on equipment, methods and techniques. If you have a confocal question or problem to solve post a note here and the chances are good that within a couple of days you'll have several helpful replies.

Mailing List

To join, send an e-mail to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu containing the single line "subscribe confocal firstname lastname" for example, "subscribe confocal John Smith".

You can send a message to all list members by e-mailing confocal@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

There's also a handy archive of postings which you can use from any Web client.

News Group

Point your News Reader client to bit.listserv.confocal to pick up all the recent postings. The archive mentioned above also applies to postings to this list.

(Note that the mailing list and news group are connected by a gateway, items posted to either appear on both.

Mailing List

Users of the ImageTool program may find this dedicated mailing list useful. To join, send an email to listproc@sparky.uthscsa.edu with the single line "subscribe it-list firstname lastname", for example, "subscribe it-list John Smith".

You can send a message to all list members by e-mailing it-list@sparky.uthscsa.edu, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

Mailing List

Users of the NIH-Image program have a mailing list devoted to questions and answers on equipment, programming, file conversion and so forth. If you'd like to join, send an email to listproc@soils.umn.edu with a single line containing "subscribe nih-image firstname lastname", for instance "subscribe nih-image Mary Brown".

You can send a message to all list members by e-mailing nih-image@soils.umn.edu, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

There's a useful Gopher archive of past mails at gopher.soils.umn.edu.

News Group

If you need a general discussion on image processing, try sci.image.processing, it's not confined to microscopy of course, but it may well provide the help and advice you need.

Microscopy

Mailing List

To join, send an e-mail to listserver@sparc5.microscopy.com containing the single line "subscribe microscopy username@email.address" for example, "subscribe microscopy smithj@somewhere.edu".

You can send a message to all list members by e-mailing microscopy@sparc5.microscopy.com, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

News Group

sci.techniques.microscopy is the main Usenet News place to go for discussions on all aspects of microscopy.

Optics

News Group

sci.optics has regular discussions on a wide range of optical matters. Much of the information is not directly relevant to microscopy, but the newsgroup's worth following if, for example, you have interests in aspects of lens design.

Scanning Probe Microscopy

Mailing List

Digital Instruments hosts this list. Free ranging discussion is encouraged on all scanned probe issues, not just those concerning Digital's range of equipment.

To join, send a mail containing the single word 'SUBSCRIBE' to spm-request@di.com

E-mail for publication on the list should be sent to spm@di.com, do not send 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' requests to this address.

There's an archive of mails sent to the list at ftp.di.com, login with the username 'afm' and use the password 'stm'.

NanoScope User's Mailing List

This is another Digital Instruments list, this time restricted to users of their 'NanoScope' range of instruments. The list is used for announcements from the company to its user community.

To join, send an e-mail to michelle@di.com with your name, your organisation (university, company etc), and your NanoScope serial number. Only verifiable NanoScope users will be added to this list.

Visualisation

News Group

The comp.graphics.visualization news group discusses techniques and programs for turning data into images.

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