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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4847