<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I fully endorse the feelings expressed by KP. reading on Leish link is a fun and gives lots of information (new as well as historical). we understand that its free flow of ideas. should continue with disclaimers of course</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Dr Sunil K.Arora<BR>Professor <BR>In Charge HIV diagnostic and Disease Monitoring Laboratory<BR>Department of Immunopathology<BR>PGIMER, Chandigarh-160 012<BR>Ph.: 0091-172-2755192(Off)<BR>FAX: 0091-172-2744401, 2745078<BR>Ph:+91-172-2732863 (Res); 9872866087 (cell)<BR>email: skarora_in@yahoo.com; skarorain@gmail.com<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 4/5/12, Chang, Kwang-Poo <I><KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Chang, Kwang-Poo <KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leisjh-L and Citability<BR>To: "jeffrey shaw" <jayusp@hotmail.com>, "Leish-L" <leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br><BR>Date: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 10:48 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=yiv842015115MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I urge Dr. Shaw to continue his effort with the activities of the network communication as before. Anything provided as attachment by the sender along with the message will be his or her responsibility. A disclaimer is needed to indicate this and also to indicate screening of messages at the discretion of the webmaster. My suggestion about screening is not to pass any scientific judgments, but to screen out junk mails or unrelated/non-scientific topics.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=yiv842015115MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br [mailto:leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>jeffrey shaw<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:15 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Leish-L<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Leish-l] Leisjh-L and Citability</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=yiv842015115MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">KP raised a very important point in his reply <FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black">to Isra´s comment on the Madrid VL outbreak</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">by </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">saying that:<BR><BR>" </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It is understood that such informal communications do not constitute a formal scientific publication, but do help spread the information more quickly to the scientific community." <BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For the reasons given by KP Leish-L communications <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">are not eligible as citations</SPAN></B> in formal publications. </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The idea behind the messages is simply to make people aware of recent breakthroughs and advances</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> and to encourage informal informal discussions on any subject remotely related to leishmaniasis.<BR><BR>This brings me to question the acceptability of web-links as sources of information in dissertations, theses and papers. <BR><BR>With best wishes<BR><BR>Jeffrey </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
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