Dear readers of the BBClist, I guess I do not have to tell you about the usefulness of the BBC mailing list, from which you receive each week a few messages. This list (first Belgian, later Benelux) has since its begin been managed by the now defunct Belgian EMBnet Node. I have untill now continued to do the management on a voluntary basis but it is not reasonable that I should keep doing this forever. Therefore we are searching a volunteer to take over the list, preferably a person or a group with a stable position in the field of bioinformatics and involved in collaborations within one or more countries of the Benelux. You can choose between two options : Either you install the list on a MailMan or MajorDomo server of you own OR The list stays on the MailMan server of the BBPF, which can without problem continue to host our list for several years to come, and you only take the responsability to do the administrative management. As manager you must do 3 things : 1. The list is currently configured in such a way that mails coming from adresses in the list are stored for moderation and mails coming from other adresses are automatically discarded. If there are mails in the queue the server sends overnight a warning to the manager. So, the first moment of the day that I check my mail I attend the moderation of the list. I have only once seen a spam, but I have several times seen the same mail send twice (and then I forward only one copy). You could of course decide to change the way you want to handle the list. 2. You must each year obtain from the organizers of the BBC the adresses of the participants and add them to the list. 3. Although the readers of the list can manage themselves their (un)subscription there are occasionally punctual interventions (add/change/remove addresses) to do for the sake of persons who have forgotten their password or otherwise need assistance, but this happens no more than about a dozen times a year. So, you see, it is really not much work. If you are interested, answer by returning mail (do not forget to present yourself and tell which of the two options you go for). Happy 2010 ! Guy Bottu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEN - Belgian EMBnet Node at the Brussels Free Universities Computing Centre | Address BEN ULB CP 257 Fax +32/2/6505124 | Boulevard du Triomphe email ben@vub.ac.be | B-1050 Bruxelles ----------------------------------------------------------------------------