time to moderate bionet.virology

Patrick Sobalvarro pgs at thillana.lcs.mit.edu
Sun May 14 13:22:23 EST 1995


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?



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