The Adrienne
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PDNEWS, a news service for items of Parkinson's interest
The PDNEWS mailing list recieves announcements, notice of important happenings, and other articles of interest to the wider PD community.List profile
Typical messages are:
- announcing real world events, such as conferences, fundraising walks, etc.
- announcing new resources, such as books, web sites, mailing lists, etc.
- digests of current science reviews, other useful PD specific information
- appeals for help/calls to arms for things like the Udall bill (but not specific detials and discussion about the Bill and efforts to get it passed).
- announcing new drugs, or new applications of old drugs, etc.
The list is way - announcements only and moderated, at least initally. There are a few posts a week, nothing more. Any discussion or follow-up from posts happen privately or in appropriate forums such as PARKINSN, the main worldwide mailing list about Parkinson's Disease.
The main motivation for this list is to have somewhere for people to go if they have an interest in Parkinson's Disease, but don't feel they can subscribe to PARKINSN - for whatever reason. I would also hope that all members of PARKINSN would subscribe as well.
Typical list members:
- A current member of the PARKINSN list.
- A busy office worker who's parent/friend has PD. They won't have the time to subscribe to PARKINSN but probably would be able to subscribe to PDNEWS, and fax/mail articles to parents.
- Charity worker/interested medical professional, who would like to be part of the PD community on the Internet but doesn't have much interest in the kind of chattiness that goes on in PARKINSN.
- A member of a branch committee or newsletter editorial board who is looking for relevant news & information for their newsletter.
PDNEWS would have the same philosophy as other Internet mailing lists such as MACWAY and RRE, for those of you who are members of those lists.
Joining PDNEWS
You can join PDNEWS by either filling out this form or by sending an email (content doesn't matter) to join-pdnews@mailman.coles.org.uk.
Submitting articles
People wanting to post articles to the list should send them to me (simon@coles.org.uk) I and I will forward them on to the list.
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