[Cz-biology] Gene articles, and new biologists arriving

[Daniel Mietchen]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
> Well, I wish I knew what more *could* be done.  The main problem that
> happens with applications is that people never receive their
> automatically-sent e-mails--either the e-mail confirmation mails, or the
> welcome mails.  For some reason, they keep getting shunted into spam
> folders.  We aren't aware of our being on any spam blacklists, or we'd do
> something to get off them.
>
> The single best piece of advice we can give to people who are signing up
> their classes for Eduzendium is: have students check their spam folders for
> mail from CZ.
I gave this advice to my students, but I was told repeatedly that those CZ
mails didn't even make it to the spam folders. This seems to be the case
with university accounts in particular.
Daniel

>
> --Larry
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org
>> [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of
>> Daniel Mietchen
>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:10 PM
>> To: Biology Workgroup List
>> Cc: The Citizendium Constabulatory
>> Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] Gene articles, and new biologists arriving
>>
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>> I think it is the right time to start banging the drums among
>> biologists. However, I noticed that more than half of the
>> students of my summer course had problems with their
>> registration, and I do not think they are much less
>> computer-literate than the biologists we wish to join us.
>> Please give this some more thoughts before you launch the
>> calls for participation. Thanks, Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Larry Sanger
>> <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
>> > See http://news.google.com/news?q=Citizendium
>> >
>> > All the hits on Google News for us now (about 90 of them)
>> are due to
>> > the fact that we ultimately turned down Andrew Su in his long and
>> > well-intended effort to get us to adopt pages about genes!  It's a
>> > pity!  But I think it would have ultimately been a
>> disappointment for
>> > Andrew to see the gene articles uploaded here and then
>> staying dormant
>> > for who knows how long. Wikipedia does have a vigorous if imperfect
>> > system, and perhaps his articles will be well served there.
>> >
>> > Meanwhile, I'll be doing a great deal on Biology Week in the coming
>> > weeks. This will involve, among other things, posting many
>> > announcements about CZ on biology mailing lists and forums, etc.  I
>> > hope you'll join in with that. As a result, we'll probably see a
>> > sizeable influx of biologists, and while as usual many of
>> them won't
>> > be active (it's a numbers game), a good few of them very
>> probably will
>> > be.  Especially if they have encouragement from the old hands!
>> >
>> > --Larry
>> >
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