JULY REVIEW OF THE GP-UK LIST   (03/07/96)


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LIST DESCRIPTION

GP-UK facilitates discussion on new ideas, research, workshops,
seminars, conferences, grants, education, software development etc. for
the UK General Practice (Family Medicine) community. Non-UK views are
also welcome. GP-UK intends to promote collaborative work, problem
solving and support.


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Members are reminded that this is an "academic" list and should not be
used for personal or commercial messages.

Due to increasing traffic we would urge members to avoid posting
"me too" messages, and large chunks of quotation.

Replies are set to GP-UK automatically. If replying personally to the
author please use email, not gp-uk. If using commands (see below) send
them to mailbase, not gp-uk.

Uncollected mail bounces and generates much unnecessary traffic. If you
go away for over a week please use the suspend gp-uk command (see below)
or you may be removed from the list. If you find you have been removed
please don't take it personally; simply rejoin using the join gp-uk
command (see below).

Brevity is appreciated: please keep messages below 10K where possible.
For this reason plain ASCII text is the preferred message format.
Large graphics or other UUencoded files should be transmitted privately
upon request rather than directly to the gp-uk list.


A WORD OF WARNING

Medical journalists can and do read this list. There is a tacit
understanding that they will not reproduce any comments without the
consent of the author.

Nevertheless, MEMBERS ARE ADVISED TO CONSIDER COMMENTS POSTED TO
GP-UK TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Although this is a mailing list and
not a newsgroup please bear in mind that the archives are available to
the public via ftp (see below).


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    join gp-uk john smith
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    resume mail gp-uk

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    send mailbase gopher-tutorial

To obtain our introduction file (sent automatically to all new members):
    send gp-uk introduction

To obtain a list of the current membership of gp-uk
    review gp-uk

To obtain details collated from questionnaires submitted by gp-uk members:
    send gp-uk subscribers


ANONYMOUS FTP

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the anonymous FTP service at:

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    http://mailbase.ac.uk/


PROBLEMS

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CURRENT ATTRIBUTES

For this list non-members may:
    - Subscribe direct
    - Contribute mail
    - Request review
    - Request files

This list is not moderated.
Contributions to this list are archived for one year.
Replies are sent to the list rather than to the message-sender.


LIST TRAFFIC

Total messages (average per day):

    May 95 - 118  (4.5)
    Jun 95 - 310  (8.6)
    Jul 95 - 170  (6.1)
    Aug 95 - 133  (4.2)
    Sep 95 - 170  (6.1)
    Oct 95 - 353  (11.0)
    Nov 95 - 479  (16.5)
    Dec 95 - 375  (11.4)
    Jan 96 - 375  (12.5)
    Feb 96 - 675  (21.8)
    Mar 96 - 875  (30.2)
    May 96 - 1299 (21.3)
    Jun 96 - 806  (25.2)


MEMBERSHIP

There are currently 438 members. The list is now too long to publish
regularly on gp-uk, but membership details may be obtained using the
Mailbase commands detailed above, or via hot links from our home page.

We invite all subscribers to complete our simple questionnaire: details
will be collated and uploaded to the subscribers file. Please clip out
the completed proforma and send it to: [log in to unmask]

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QUESTIONNAIRE

1.  Name:

2.  Snailmail Address:

3.  Tel:

4.  Fax:

5.  Email Address:

6.  Description: e.g. GP, academic title, managerial/commercial post ?

7.  If GP: which clinical software system ?

8.  If academic: research interest ?

9.  If managerial/commercial: area of responsibility ?

10. Special interests: e.g. clinical coding, EMR, messaging etc. ?

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Dr Ian Trimble                         email: [log in to unmask]
Sherwood Health Centre
Elmswood Gardens                                   Tel: +44 115 962 4516
Nottingham   NG5 4AD                               Fax: +44 115 985 7899
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