The recent volley of messages about "favorite web-sites" has been an excellent example of information sharing and also highlighted some difficulties of posting messages. There have been two perisstent problems with these messages: 1. please identify yourself by name and e-mail in your message as not everyone's e-mail software shows the originator, and 2. when replying to a message please remove the previous headers - the "To", "From" fields confuse the list-server as to the destination. Both of these points were included in Tuesday September 10th's "Working guidelines for posting", and bear repeating because they are constant problems for subscribers and for the facilitators of this list-serv. Regarding the first point about identifying yourself, my own e-mail system does not reveal the sender (the "From:" field only indicates "owner-click4hp"), which makes it difficult for me, as one of the facilitators, to follow up with the original sender, unless that person signs their message and includes an e-mail address. It's appreciated that several participants on this list asked for more clarification. Thanks to Ed Blonz for identifying John Studach, whose e-mail address for those of us in the dark, is <[log in to unmask]>. Then we received another unsigned message asking for feedback to the sender on nutrition (reliefnet) and smoking cessation - later revealed to those of us without systems that can see original senders as: Chuck Tedesco <[log in to unmask]> Respondants can choose whether to answer the query directly to J. Studach or C. Tedesco or to share "best web sites" here. On the second issue, we had a message bounce back unposted as it had contained a header. The following is a copy of that message: ************************************************** John: I am obviously biased, but would encourage you to check out 'CyberIsle' under development by the TeenNet project based at U of T: "Using The Internet To Engage Teens In Health Promotion". The URL is: http:\\www.cyberisle.org from: Harvey A. Skinner PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioural Science Acting Chair Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics Acting Chair Graduate Department of Community Health Faculty of Medicine, McMurrich Building, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 Voice: 416-978-8989; FAX: 416-978-2087 Email: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************** Some [mostly Canadian] web-sites that I [Alison Stirling] use: Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC) - our web-site has quite a few leads to other health promotion sites: http://www.opc.on.ca Health Resources List , an excellent general health site maintained by Tom Flemming at McMaster University's Health Sciences Library in Hamilton, Ontario http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html The Health Communication Unit at the University of Toronto Centre for Health Promotion: http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/hcu/ The (Canadian) National Clearinghouse on Tobacco & Health - many good resources and links http://www.ccsh.ca/ncth/ The Tobacco Control Archives (California) Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers and unpublished documents relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California. http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ The Organization for Nutrition Education - lots of good links http://www.hwc.ca:8080/one/LINKS.HTM Physical Activity, Recreation and Active Living in Canada - most links are to organizations http://activeliving.ca/activeliving/index.html Well-Tech Net : a listing by source and subject of many lifestyle-oriented health on-line links including exercise/fitness, nutrition, smoking cessation and self-care. http://www.welltech.com/net_connect/index.html It's a start. I'd like to see some more discussion about the uses of the Internet for consumer health information. Perhaps over the next two weeks we can explore these areas in more depth. Alison Stirling co-facilitator CLICK4HP <[log in to unmask]> Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse - http://www.opc.on.ca ---------- Re: > Who do we send the information to? jstudac? > > Thanks, Debbie Bang > Coordinator/Researcher > St. Joseph's Community Health Centre > Hamilton, Ontario > > i'm trying to pull together the best web sites i can find for a > > presentation on health promotion. could you please send me your favorite > > sites on 1. health communication 2. smoking cessation 3. nutrition 4. > > physical activity. thanks