creation of new newsgroups

[Stephen Fletcher]

In article <maga-300595093050 at 130.60.120.11>,
   maga at vetbio.unizh.ch (Giovanni Maga) wrote:
>In article <3qb3fb$l88 at ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, tichysr at ix.netcom.com (steve
>tichy) wrote:
>
>>      I have found out where to go to get new newsgroups created.  I
>> would like to know if there is any other newsgroups that I should put
>> in a request to create besides those that follow:
>> 
>>           bionet.virology.ebola
>>           bionet.virology.hepatitis
>> Thanks,
>> Veneta Tichy
>> tichysr at ix.netcom.com
>
>Probably I missed it, but I would like to know if there are enough people
>interested in the above topics. I didn't see so many postings about
>Hep.viruses and Ebola virus to justify a bionet.newsgroup (please note that
>we are talking about bionet groups, so also the many Ebola postings we got
>recently were mostly outside the pourpose of such groups). There was
>already a proposal for a virology.hepatitis group and the feeling was that
>it wasn't worth making. Is anything changed? I do not have anything in
>principle against such groups, but I simply do not see the necessity to
>split the virology group. I think that covering a wide range of matters
>could be useful for many people. Just my 2 cents of course.
>Regards, G.Maga
>maga at vetbio.unizh.ch

The ebola virus seems pretty media hyped etc. Why create a new bionet 
newsgroup just to satisfy media zombies.