tiberio (12/13/82)
How about a news group where discussions about health can take place? I am particularly interested in news about VDT's and other office health hazards.
courtney (12/15/82)
#R:seismo:-17500:hp-pcd:5000006:000:1069 hp-pcd!courtney Dec 14 12:27:00 1982 A group for sharing information about health hazards is very appropriate in this day and age. The level of "health" (or sickness) in our society is quickly becoming a significant factor in our quality of life. Both the economic and social costs associated with health care have some obscure and far-reaching causes, making this topic prime for discussion! A comment for those who resist the addition of new groups: Having a wide variety of well-defined topics in individual groups helps to make information more readily available to those who use the net. I realize that there is overhead associated with a large number of groups, but that should be a managable problem and shouldn't stifle the improvement of the usefulness of the network. As an example, groups would be used more effectively if there was a way to find a particular topic without searching through the long list of randomly-ordered group titles...perhaps a tree structure would provide a solution? Anyway, let's not stifle experimentation with new groups...