X-Message-Number: 414 From att!oce.orst.edu!johng Thu Aug 29 13:17:12 PDT 1991 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 13:17:12 PDT From: (John Gregor) Message-Id: <> To: whscad1! Subject: Re: cryonics #407 - Moderation and USENET |KQB said |>>>>>>>> |[ A lot of interesting thoughts have been brought forth on this thread, | but now that the messages mostly discuss political theory and don't even | mention cryonics anymore, I think that we are straying a bit too far. | Let's get back to cryonics. - KQB ] |<<<<<<<< |I think the moderator is overstepping acceptable bounds here. |Expression of opinion should be in a separate message. Bzzzzt, sorry. That's one of the perks of being moderator. First, it's a longstanding usenet/e-mail tradition. Second, it saves time for both the moderator and the readers to have one note instead of two. Third, it saves bandwidth (although, a few K one way or the other is trivial). | If the political problems surrounding cryonics were solved, | the others would be gone pretty fast (IMHO). True. I am a fan of human experimentation, but try to tell the mundanes that after folks like Mengele. | If there is too much material coming through the mailing list, then it | is time to create a USENET newsgroup. This would reach a much larger | group of people, allows simultaneous discussion threads, and is a more | democratic structure. Personally, I like the directness of mailing lists for topics that I'm interested in (and living is certainly one of them!). A moderated usenet group is no more "democratic" than a mailing list. And I would humbly suggest that an unmoderated group WOULD NOT be a good way to proceed. John A. Gregor College of Oceanography E-mail: Oregon State University Voice #: +1 503 737-3022 Oceanography Admin Bldg. #104 Fax #: +1 503 737-2064 Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=414