rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (09/04/85)
I was very interested in this group, but I must unfortunately report that I have received only two replies on it -- and one was from the person who originally posted the request for the group. I must therefore conclude from my observations, even adding in those 'yes' votes posted to the net, that there is far too little interest to warrant a new group. Two things: 1) Perhaps people mailed to the original poster instead -- Bill McGarry -- decvax!bunker!wtm -- Bill if you can post to net.news.group (assuming you haven't already) a summary of replies (preferrably with net addresses attached) then maybe we can still get this show on the road. 2) If this doesn't pan out, I would suggest that postings be in net.med and have subject lines starting with either "disabled:" for generic articles concerning the disabled/handicapped/whatever; or "disabled.med:" for an article about medical concerns of the disabled. This gives the non-interested an easy way to recognize such articles and hit their 'n' key and gives the interested among us the opportunity to gauge over the next few weeks the real interest. One last note: I know a lot of people want this group as bad as I do, but please don't take this as an invitation to flood net.med to make your point; if there is not genuine widespread interest then net.disabled would go the way of net.rec.disc in 6 months anyway. Thanks very much for your time, and I'll be looking forward to Bill's summary in net.news.group, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj