X-Message-Number: 5422 From: (Matt Day) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: RFD sci.life-extension.cryonics Date: 13 Dec 1995 23:56:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4aohqt$> References: <> In article <> (Brian Wowk) writes: > In reply to an RFD for sci.life-extension.smartdrugs, >Brian M. Delaney suggested that sci.cryonics become >sci.life-extension.cryonics. (Neither of these posts appeared >at my Usenet site, however Brian's post was forwarded to >CryoNet, which is where I saw it.) > > I think the topic of cryonics is sufficiently unique >that it should remain a second-level newsgroup. Moreover, >second-level newsgroup status gives cryonics a prestige >and visibility that it simply would not have as a subgroup >of sci.life-extension. > >[..] On the other hand, if the newsgroup was under the sci.life-extension.* tree, perhaps the random Usenet reader would more likely to associate cryonics with life extension than with mad scientists, thus helping in some small way to reduce the mystique of cryonics that I believe scares away a lot of potential cryonicists. In my opinion, the "prestige and visibility" of a second-level newsgroup is very limited at best. Matt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5422