X-Message-Number: 826 Date: 14 May 92 01:56:52 EDT From: Bob Smart <> Subject: CRYONET: sci.* proposal One of the more useful products of the recent activity on sci.med was the proposal that the new cryonics group be called sci.cryonics, as opposed to sci.med.cryonics. That sounded pretty reasonable to me. That might pacify the rabid cryonics-ain't-medicine crowd, while still leaving us as part of the sci.* hierarchy (which is apparently carried at more sites than is the alt.* hierarchy). I don't see any real advantage to forcing the issue by insisting on a sci.med.cryonics...and it might actually be better to start our own subtree anyway. Some of the issues that are likely to come up in a cryonics newsgroup are not directly medical; we could start out with sci.cryonics, then if sufficient volume develops to warrant more specific grouping, we could have a sci.cryonics.med, sci.cryonics.legal, sci.cryonics.ethics-and-philosophy, ... . Meanwhile, the more general sci.cryonics group would be an appropriate place for a wider range of topics, and could perhaps be complementary with sci.nanotechnology. Comments, gentlebeings? [ Allowing for convenient expansion to sub-newsgroups is an interesting idea. Meanwhile, the latest sci.med cryonics debate has generated well over 165K bytes of commentary so far. The message 0011 has the entire set and the daily incrementals are in files 0011.1 (May 12), 0011.2 (May 13), etc., all accessible via the usual CRYOMSG Subject line mechanism. These files currently are formatted to unbundle into their separate files (after you remove the email headers) when you type a command of the form "sh filename". Of course, for those of you on non-UNIX machines, this unbundling capability is not much help. (You can still read the files without unbundling them; it's just harder to see where one message ends and another begins if you do not.) I may eventually reformat these to be more like the digest files. - KQB ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=826