In article <65221.branco at ent.umass.edu> branco at ent.umass.edu writes:
>> With all due respect to those who took the time to become involved
>and replied to the "modest proposal" is it maybe about time we let go?
>I think that we all subscribed to the virology net to exchange important
>information among virologists, regarding virology, in a civilized fashion.
>>resulted. I would rather eliminate postings of that nature alltogether. It
>is much more enjoyable to read inquiries pertaining to REAL virology issues.
>That is after all the real purpose of this service, is it not???
>There are usually less than a dozen posts a day to this newsgroup -
most on two or three threads. Sometimes it takes a real hair-brain
idea to get anything interesting discussed here. After lobbying
for the Deusberg fans to leave one of the unmoderated bionet groups,
posts have gone from about 15/day to 2-3/day. There are probably a
lot of lurkers out there who benefit from these hypothetical
discussions. BTW, when's the last time YOU started an interesting thread?
--
Greg Tobin, Ph.D. tobin at lcms-1.ncifcrf.gov
LCMS
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Frederick, MD 21702
