Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:04:14 -0400
From: Jim Hendee
Subject: coral-list listserver situation
Greetings,
This message is for those of you who are also subscribed to the
coral listserver at coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov. As you may recall, as
administrator of coral-list I posted a message that the coral workstation
was going to be temporarily shut down due to upgrades to the system. We
upgraded the operating system, but unfortunately the older version of the
listserver software, majordomo, was not compatible with the new operating
system. We are doing our best to upgrade the software and will hopefully
be back online this week. Fortunately, the Web page at
http://www.coral.noaa.gov IS working fine.
For those of you who are not subscribers to coral-list, but would
like to be, please wait a few days, then send "subscribe coral-list" in
the body of a message to majordomo@coral.aoml.noaa.gov and hopefully the
request will be processed. If you're not sure coral-list is the
listserver for you, please see the attached Welcome Message before
subscribing.
Thank you for your patience.
Cheers,
Jim Hendee
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James C. Hendee, Ph.D.
Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Ocean Chemistry Division
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1026
Voice: (305) 361-4396
Fax: (305) 361-4392
Email: jim.hendee@noaa.gov
Web: http://www.coral.noaa.gov
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(i.e., search for your topic, ask the
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Sincerely yours,
Jim Hendee
Louis Florit
Philippe Dubosq
Ocean Chemistry Division
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1026
USA
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