X-Message-Number: 20387
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:14:22 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #20384 - #20386

Hi everyone!

REAL NEWS from Alcor would be most important for members who don't
live close to their facility, and even more so for those who don't
even live in the same country. For instance, while there are some
news articles about cryonics here in Australia, I haven't noticed
many. If the suspension of a baseball star caused lots of attention
in the US, it raised only a slight sea wave here, particularly
amid lots of other things. 

Just to raise some hairs on the back of people's necks, I think
one good thing Mike Darwin did when he was at Alcor was precisely
to give NEWS. He may have had lots of faults, and have been hard
to work with, but I think that the issues of CRYONICS that came
out after he left Alcor, even though much more colorful and
snazzy, are trivia compared to those when he was Editor. Snazzy
photos and good design utterly fail to make up for a comparative
lack of news.

And yes, at first I thought that the Alcor PHOENIX might make up
for the lack in CRYONICS, but it hasn't been appeared very
regularly. 

If the leaders of Alcor which to contemplate the complexities
of their bellybuttons, they have a right to do so. Whether
they're keeping in touch with their members is another matter.

                       Best wishes and long long life to all,

                            Thomas Donaldson

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