avi@pegasus.UUCP (03/03/84)
I agree with Adam Buchsbaum that net.bio was a failure. I submitted a letter to net.bio late Saturday night (technically at 12:24 on Sunday morning) asking why there was no real traffic in net.bio itself. I include the message, with a few headers stripped, at the end of this article. So far, I have seen no signs of life in net.bio. All I see are articles to net.bio AND net.misc or some other group. I have a sneaking suspicion that NOBODY subscribes to net.bio, because they assume anything of interest will also be posted to somewhere that is interesting. I was going to wait a few weeks before posting this, in all fairness. But, since Adam beat me to the punch, ... Avi Gross ---Original Message to net.bio follows----- >Path: pegasus!avi >From: avi@pegasus.UUCP (Avi E. Gross) >Newsgroups: net.bio >Subject: What is the purpose (if any) of this newsgroup >Message-ID: <999@pegasus.UUCP> >Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:24:49 EST >Article-I.D.: pegasus.999 >Posted: Sun Feb 26 00:24:49 1984 I have 9 articles in the net/bio directory. SEVEN are to both net.bio and net.MISC. one is to net.bio and net.WORKS. Finally, one is to net.bio itself. I see very little justification for this newsgroup at this time. I would suggest that people who have a real reason for this group should post directly to it. If the creationist/evolutionist debate really belongs here (note: I said IF) then why is everybody also posting to net.misc? It is hard enough to create a newsgroup these days, without keeping around fossils. Maybe we should nuke this group and replace it with something like net.sci.life. Seriously, if I don't see many reasonable articles in this group, I will eventually make the suggestion to remove it in net.news.group. I am NOT threatening to remove it. Rather than sending replies/flames to me, please post an intersting article to this group. I want to see the group used. -- -=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi -- -=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi