[net.news.group] net.natsci

janc@uofm-cv.UUCP (Jan Wolter) (02/09/84)

I'd like to propose a news group for topics relating to the life sciences.
While it's not surprising that UseNet has a strong technocratic bias, it
is unfortunate that there is no home for discussions on the natural sciences.
This would include biology, chemistry, anthropology, archeology, and
botany.  Perhaps "net.natsci" would be a good name ("net.life" is too
general).  If nothing else, this would at long last give a home to the
creationism/evolution debate.

					Jan Wolter
					University of Michigan

decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (02/13/84)

We already have net.bio, and net.physics.  Discussions of chemistry don't come
up too often, and when they do, they seem to fit well into one of these two
categories.  Anyway, most pronunciations of "natsci" imply that it
should be a subgroup of net.politics.  Is there anybody who is really sick
and tired of hearing about natural science issues in any of our newsgroups?
If not, we don't need a group for it.

Dave Decot		 "Non-Americans are people, too."
decvax!cwruecmp!decot    (Decot.Case@rand-relay)

sam@rocksvax.UUCP (Sam Houston) (02/13/84)

x
Here's a second for a natural science/natural history
net.  Living things are interesting too!

		sam (Xerox, Rochester, NY)