time to moderate bionet.virology

[The LightKeeper]

pgs at thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) muttered:

>As someone who works in a completely different discipline, I used to enjoy
>reading bionet.virology as a way of occasionally learning interesting things
>about virology.  Unfortunately, the group has become nearly unreadable in the
>past couple of months, because of two kinds of people:
>(a) those who apparently have no idea what a library is, and whose reaction
>    to any idle curiosity they experience is to post a message on the net, to
>    be read by thousands of people; and
>(b) complete nutcases, with either a plan for exterminating some portion of
>    the human race, or the need to convince us all that such a plan is being
>    executed.

This is what USENET is, in many cases.  It shines when it is an
OPEN forum.  That's why we have kill files, to ignore some of the
driftwood.

-Lighty