wtm@bunker.UUCP (William T. McGarry) (08/28/85)
I've recieved quite a bit of mail about my proposal for a new news group for/about handicapped/disable people. I am on vacation right now so I will summarize the results that I have received so far next week right after labor day. Almost all of the mail has been in favor of the new group with a few different opinions on exactly how it should be started (more in my summary next week). Despite all of the mail, there has been very little on the net itself, so I am asking everyone who has sent me mail or who has an opinion on the subject, please post an article on the net stating your opinion. Many different people posting articles will have much more weight than me summarizing the mail that I received. Thank you all in advance. Bill McGarry decvax!bunker!wtm
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/30/85)
> Almost all of the mail has been in favor of the new group [...] > I am asking everyone who has sent me mail or who has an opinion on the > subject, please post an article on the net stating your opinion. > Bill McGarry <decvax!bunker!wtm> I just don't see the need for it. In an article a couple of weeks back somebody (I don't remember who) said we needed net.handicap because articles by/for/about handicapped people were flooding net.med. A a regular net.med reader, I don't understand how you reached that conclusion. I can't remember the last such an article I saw. I'm not interested so I don't read them. If the volume hasn't been enough for me to even notice, I don't think you could call it a flood. Rather then starting a new group, why not just go ahead and talk about it in net.med. When the volume of articles I have to skip becomes high enough that I notice (let alone be seriously bothered) I'll let you know. I quite agree with "--Lauren--"; the net needs a higher S/N, not more newsgroups. -- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) (09/04/85)
Bill asked for public plugs for net.handicapped (or some such).
This is one.
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