X-Message-Number: 4847
From:  (Kevin Q. Brown)
Subject: Re: Cryonics Posts (lately)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 0:30:43 EDT

In message #4837
Christian Alberto Garcia Sepulveda <> said:
> I am so sorry about the actual use CRYONET list is getting, I 
> can almost remember when good scientific adds really got through instead 
> of all this Donahue-like MLM crap.
>   . . .
> Please Take as much time as you can with the above dilemas, and 
> please beg the listmanager to take control of the situation.
> KQB- Please reply!!

Dear Senior Garcia,
Probably the best solution to the questions you pose is for you to
post messages to CryoNet that you _do_ like.  For example, you
posted an interesting message about Rat Embryo Freezing awhile ago,
and I am sure that we would all be happy to see more messages like that.
In the USENET sci.cryonics news group I have noticed that when a
lot of good, technical messages are posted, very few silly messages
get posted even though sci.cryonics is an unmoderated news group
to which anyone can post.

FYI: The USENET sci.cryonics news group was created for discussing
(strictly) scientific/technical cryonics-related topics, whereas
CryoNet is for anything that relates somehow to cryonics.  Since
cryonics involves a lot of socio-political issues in addition to
the technical issues, the CryoNet mailing list sees a wide range
of topics.  Sometimes it gets off track, but I think that it runs
best overall when given a lot of slack; usually one can ignore a
silly thread until it goes away.  Most of the (vocal) people here
seem to prefer it that way, finding occasional silliness less
disagreeable than any form of censorship.  If you care to inspect
the archives over the past seven years, you'll see a number of
such "digressions," after which the messages returned to topics
more obviously related to the central concerns of cryonics.

Another approach would be for someone to offer a filtered version
of CryoNet, to which interested people could subscribe.  That
list could take the entire CryoNet feed as input and distribute
only those messages that satisfy the criteria of the editor.
My only request is to have all _replies_ sent to CryoNet rather
than just to the filtered list so that we do not unnecessarily
balkanize the cryonics mailing list(s).

Sorry if this isn't quite what you wanted to hear, but I really don't
have a better solution.  Direct attempts to "take control" too often
end up hurting more than helping, especially on the Internet.

                                   Kevin Q. Brown
				   
				   
				   


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