The
METAB-L History Page
(quick and dirty)
The Metab-L mailing list
and the Metab-L community started in August 1995. In
cyberspace seems a respectable enough period of time, giving a
pretense to celebrate our common successes and build this rudimentary
page with some links to "how it all came to happen":
- As for one of the
versions of the
general story, have a look at
the Wikipedia
Entry on Metab-L (and
have a go at editing, reworking and
improving it, please).
- Metab-L's
(in)official birthday is on August 16th, which is the date given on
the invitation letter sent out as a mass mailing to all metabolic
specialists whose postal addresses could be found in our address
collections ("wilted and arcane") in summer 1995.
Here is the original invitation
text and
the "CMC
questionaire" on
previous use of "computer-mediated communication
(CMC)" included in the mailing (but never really processed and
evaluated reasonably,
as only a few filled-in forms really came back).
- And here is a link to
the original
Usenet-posting to
sci.med.telemedicine a few days later.
Please
mail ideas and
suggestions for improving this page to me!
Links
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
Metab-L has been kindly supported by both Orphan
Europe, Dietzenbach, Germany and
Milupa
GmbH, Friedrichdorf, Germany.
THANK YOU ORPHAN AND MILUPA!
© 1995-2010
Christian Renner (cjrenner@well.com)