time to moderate bionet.virology

[Jeremy Erwin]

In article <3p6vka$it0 at nntp3.u.washington.edu>,
A. M. Lotto <aurelia at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>With all the traffic that has hit this group in the course of the last 
>week, maybe a new group should be considered temporarily specifically for 
>those who wish to discuss the goings on in Africa.  I have non idea how 
>this is done(the creation of a new newsgroup) but I would certainly 
>appreciate it.
>
I would agree. What is somewhat curious, though, is that many of the 
recent questions on ebola seem more related to epidemiology (if one 
can grace "We're all going to die" posts with such a serious 
classification) and not to virology. (i.e. one doen't see many posts 
about the reproduction, structure, and genome of filoviri.)
In recent years, there has been hysteria about HIV, hantaviri, biological 
warfare, plague, and "flesh eating bacteria."
In that light, perhaps 'alt.current-events.coming-plague', or a similar 
'alt' group could be created to alleviate this problem. 

Jeremy
 

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    Jeremy Erwin, Antioch College, <jerwin at college.antioch.edu>