time to moderate bionet.virology

[Michael Rivero]

In article <PGS.95May14142223 at thillana.lcs.mit.edu> pgs at thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) writes:
>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.
>
>Doesn't it seem likely that it's time for someone to moderate the group?  Say,
>a virologist?

  That all depends on whether you mean a GOVERNMENT virologist or an
independent virologist.

  No to the former, yes to the latter.



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