I agree about the moderator --- I have sent 3 messages to
biosci-help at net.bio.net, and in each I have volunteered to moderate this
group. I have not received any response. I guess I'll try a 4th message
today.
--
Dr. Peter W. Pappas
Professor, Department of EEOB
The Ohio State University
1735 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone 614-292-2746
FAX 614-292-2030
pappas.3 at osu.edu
Mark Farmer <farmer at emlab.cb.uga.edu> wrote in message
news:37BD9F2B.C07367AF at emlab.cb.uga.edu...
> Dear members,
>> It REALLY is time for someone to step forward and become the moderator
> for this newsgroup. It has been a while since I logged in and I was
> alarmed to see the number of useless and inappropriate postings.
> Compare this to the postings at bionet.protista
> [http://www.bio.net/hypermail/PROTISTA/9908/] which is the site that I
> have been moderating for the past year. Not only are there no
> inappropriate solicitations but most of these spammers no longer even
> send me their crap because they have learned that I do not pass it on
> the subscribed members.
>> All told it takes me about 5 minutes/day to moderate the site and filter
> out the garbage. Someone should contact the helpdesk at
>biosci-help at net.bio.net and volunteer to do this and once again make
> this a useful forum in which to discuss subjects related to
> parasitology.
>> MTC,
>> Mark Farmer
>>