X-Message-Number: 10778 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 08:34:35 -0800 From: Peter Merel <> Subject: CryoWiki & Real21CM Charles Platt writes, >Thanks to Peter Merel for his summary of the conference presented by 21st >Century Medicine. The shock of reading this sober summary of important >work with practical applications, REPORTED ON CRYONET, is almost as great >as the shock that Peter experienced when he learned that vitrification of >organs is now possible at moderate temperatures with minimal toxicity, >after just a few months of research into this promising new mix of >cryoprotectants. Now Charles you and I both know too well that protestations about S/N only contributed to lowering it. We might not appreciate the irrelevant claptrap that's appearing on cryonet, but there's really only one alternative - unsubscribe. It's been proposed in the past that some generous soul come forth and produce a moderated version of cryonet. This really is too much to ask of anyone I think. Perhaps a self-moderating alternative might be to set up a wikiwikiweb on cryonet.org? I can contribute a perl script to do this if Kevin's interested, or of course there are several others available open-source. If folk don't know what a wikiweb is, check out www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?StartingPoints and www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks >I videotaped and photographed the entire conference and will be writing a >detailed report which should appear in Alcor's CRYONICS magazine, >CryoCare's internal newsletter--and maybe on CryoNet as well. First I >have to get all the tapes transcribed, which will be nontrivial. Perhaps a RealAudio version would be easier to make? Peter Merel. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10778