ebola/crapola

[HOWELLP at DELPHI.COM]

Speaking as an armchair hack, I have to agree.  I came here to be 
informed.  That, in my opinion, is was the usenet is all about.  In order 
to be informed, however, it's neccessary for me to be interacting with 
people who are at least as informed as I am.  I came to the virology 
group in hopes of hearing what the "experts" had to say.  Unfortunately, 
there's so much noise from people no more informed than I am, that's it's 
hard to get any signal.  

I believe in free speech, but try  talking over the professor in the 
middle of a 
middle of a lecture.  If you want to be informed, then I suggest 
following the advice already given and do some lurking, or read a book or 
two.  If there's a question you just can't find the answer to, I bet 
these nice folks would be happy to answer it.  Just keep in mind that 
they're busy people who were here first, and are trying to get some work 
done.

If this keeps up, I bet the "experts" will just go to a more "elitest" 
forumthat we can't get to, and this group will become useless to all but 
the loudmouths and those credulous enough to believe them.  

With apologies for taking up yet more band width, I sign off.