From nkraft@bkhouse.cts.com Sun May 15 09:00:52 1994 Date: Sat, 14 May 94 09:44:27 PST From: nkraft@bkhouse.cts.com Reply to: The OrMed Mailing List To: Multiple.Recipients.of.List.OrMed@donews.cts.com Subject: Welcome to the list! This first message is going out to those of you who have joined us in the last two or three days. Welcome! I'm Norman Kraft, the list administrator and moderator. For those of you who joined the list, but did not request the FAQ, please do so. The FAQ is incomplete at this stage, but contains important information. Since the posting guidelines went out with the new subscriber introductory messages, you should all have a general idea of my goals as moderator, but there is additional information in the FAQ that might prove helpful to some of you. Basically, there are two fairly simple rules here: 1. Be polite (that means no flaming). 2. Stay on topic. Otherwise, always remember that the OrMed mailing list is a family, not a town square. Anyway, one thing that I plan to do regularly as a part of this list is to post questions for discussion. It is very easy for a list to get bogged down in minutiae, and I hope that these questions will help us to keep our eyes on some broader issues as well. I would encourage everyone to give some thought to what we post. It would be very easy for this list to turn into a long string of "what herb is good for this ailment" type of questions, but we are here, as it says in the introduction file, "to serve as a forum for the discussion and advancement of Oriental Medicine." I encourage topics on every subject from "what herb is good for this ailment" to "how will Oriental medicine fit into national health care" to "just how accurate are our translations of Chinese medical texts." These are all important issues to the field, for both practioners and patients. I want to thank everyone (all dozen or so of you) for joining this list and helping it to grow. I look forward to your input! Norm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Kraft INET : nkraft@ucsd.edu (work) Peptide-T Clinical Trial or try: nkraft@bkhouse.cts.com (home) HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center UUCP : ucsd!nkraft Dept of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California, San Diego Usual disclaimers... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------