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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
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