X-Message-Number: 1377 From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) Subject: CRYONICS META: Cryonet vs. sci.cryonics Unlike the "CRYONICS" and "CRYONICS.POLITICS" mechanisms for submitting messages to Cryonet (the cryonics mailing list), the link between Cryonet and the USENET sci.cryonics news group is far from automated. Whenever I notice a sci.cryonics message that looks interesting to the Cryonet readers, I forward it to the list. (If I miss something important, anyone else on the list can forward the message to Cryonet, too.) With the exception of Ralph Merkle's five-part posting on the Technical Feasibility of Cryonics (which you can retrieve by sending email to me with the Subject line "CRYOMSG 0019.[1-5]"), sci.cryonics has been fairly quiet lately and that is why you have not seen many postings from sci.cryonics lately. Similarly, the Cryonet messages that look appropriate for sci.cryonics get forwarded there, unless the author requested them not to be posted in sci.cryonics. None of the recent exchanges about Alcor internal issues have gone to sci.cryonics, though, since they did not appear to me to be SCI.cryonics material. (Of course, if someone else who has USENET access really wants to post a message to sci.cryonics, I cannot stop him or her from doing that.) I welcome more technical messages on Cryonet (and sci.cryonics). For example, someone recently asked me (privately) about the cryoprotectants used in cryonics. (What research has been done on them, how do they work, how are they used, etc.?) I am sure that several people on this list can provide a lot more information on that topic than I can, or at least point to appropriate references. Thanks. Kevin Q. Brown UUCP ...att!whscad1!kqb INTERNET or Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1377