Archives of the OEM-L Mailing List

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This page is intended to provide easy access to the saved content of broadcast messages to the Occupational & Environmental Medicine mail-list.

The archives have been greatly enhanced resulting from the conversion of the maillist software to Listserv, which provides for wonderful archives, including the following features:

Instant and continuous up-dating at the archive web page.
Though comprehensive, the search tool is limited.
Monthly lists can be sequenced by author name, date or by the concept thread that unites them.

Spiffier (but more limited, to the most recent ~2 years) archives are available at these sites:

eScribe or Vermont SIRI

Search capabilities at both of these sites are better than the "home" archive site.

eScribe is faster of all these to use, but has only the last 2 years (or so) of stored messages.

GUIDELINESfor how the list functions, subscription instructions and tips for cordial net-relations are on a separate page.

The original search site for Occ-Env-Med-L, still useful since it also includes the SAFETY forum, the IH list, or Health-&-Safety Canada)

Search at the original SIRI

The Vermont SIRI SAFETY folks have done a terrific job retaining archives from each mail-list.
I also suggest looking at some of the other great stuff on their pages, at the original site or the mirror site (just in case)

Sequential

If you want to follow a particular conversational thread, the list archives can be visited in monthly collections (truly unedited files showing who said what and when), and do reveal the subject lines. This is where it's obvious how much more useful it is to answer queries to the list and not just to the questioner. *IF* you see an unanswered query and need the answer, consider posting a personal message to the individual who posted the original question. He / She may have some answers which never made it to the list-as-a-whole, sent by smart but shy OEM-L readers.

Replies

Replying to these messages will be difficult:

1) a major delay may have passed since the message was first posted

2) there is no direct "reply" capacity, requiring manual cutting and pasting

3) the software that manages the OEM-L mail-list does not accept messages from non-subscribers. Thus, if you want to communicate with the community of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, you need to join the forum first.

If you have any questions regarding this page or Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Duke,
please contact Gary N. Greenberg, MD, MPH.

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The Occ-Env-Med-L Mail-list and these resources originated and are distributed from Duke University Medical Center. As faculty member, Dr. Greenberg is allowed to run this cyber-outreach without interference, and the five servers where these aggregate materials are housed (office-mail, home-mail, web-pages, gopher-text, mail-list) are each part of the University's global infrastructure, provided without direct or proportionate user fees.

Ongoing and unfettered support for this electronic forum is provided by AOEC, ARCO, Bench International, Continuum Healthcare, CSXTransportation , OEM Health Informationand Substance Abuse Management, Inc. (SAMI) .

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