Uploaded February 4, 1994
Subject: NEW: Occ-Env-Med-L - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
From: GREEN011@mc.duke.edu (Gary Greenberg)

Occ-Env-Med-L on mailserv@mc.duke.edu   Occupational and Environmental
                                     Medicine

Occupational & Environmental medicine represents a growing clinical
and public health discipline, seeking to evaluate and prevent the
diseases and health effects that may be related to exposures at work
and from other environments (eg pollution).

The Occ-Env-Med-L Mail-list provides a forum for announcements,
dissemination of text files and academic discussion.  The forum is
designed to allow presentation of clinical vignettes, synopses of new
regulatory issues and reports of interesting items from publications
elsewhere (both the medical and the non-medical journals).

The Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics represents
the first nucleus of members for the list, and will use the list for
announcements.  AOEC members are either:

   A) interested clinics with approved credentials documenting expertise
   in Occupational & Environmental Medicine

   B) individuals interested in sharing this topic, but who have no
   requirement to show advanced training or expertise.

Professional affiliations of the Mail-list subscribers will include:
   Occupational Physicians and Nurses
   Industrial Hygienists
   Government Public Health officials
   University investigators and regulators in Occupat & Environ Med
   diseases

I imagine that the topics will include:
   -   Case Presentations, ending with "what do I do next?"
   -   Ethical concerns
   -   Requests for technical expertise, usually free and off-the-cuff.
   -   Requests for collaborators, either research or business.
   -   Announcements of hot topics, including regulatory issues, case
       reports with effect on usual practice, news events.
   -   Job postings and requests for offers.
   -   You name it...

This maillist is currently unmoderated.  That means that anything
sent to the list is BROADCAST to all subscribers (a pain if the msg
is secret or even just trivial).  Responses to messages CAN be
selectively addressed (ie, to the individual who posted the message
or to just a few individuals) and this is suggested for any message
that the group as whole would find uninteresting (especially
replies).

In the future, we MAY limit posting to the maillist if the messages
get too numerous, too inflammatory or just annoying, but for now it's
open to all.  If we decide to limit the volume, it will be called a
"moderated" where a sysop (me, I guess) acts to approve information
for posting, to reduce the volume of undesirable stuff that everybody
else gets.

How to Subscribe to Occ-Env-Med-L

To place your name on the mail list, send a special message to the
internet address

   mailserv@mc.duke.edu

include just a single line message that says:

   SUBSCRIBE Occ-Env-Med-L "FirstName LastName"
   (you'll fill in the blanks, of course!)

eg: SUBSCRIBE Occ-Env-Med-L "Gary Greenberg, MD MPH"

Please put in your full name in quotes as the example shows.

An optional parameter, the address to subscribe, may be specified
with this commands.

   SUBSCRIBE Occ-Env-Med-L "Gary Greenberg" <green011@acpub.duke.edu>

This would allow you to subscribe someone else to the list, or to use
a second or different address than the one from which you are
presently posting the subscription request.  The mail list will
otherwise use your return electronic mail address as the maillist
subscription address.

I expect that once the list is established, we'll also be able to
accumulate a database of who's on the list (including an e-mail
list), what topics interest us and what discipline we belong to.

Owner:  Gary Greenberg, MD  GREEN011@mc.duke.edu