Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb From: jwb@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Part of the problem with net.bio Message-ID: <2104@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 14:07:01 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2104 Posted: Mon Mar 5 14:07:01 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:49:54 EST Lines: 15 When net.bio was proposed, the suggestion was that it was for biological research, among other things. However, people immediately said this was a place for creationism, etc. This was exactly what I for one did not want. I would submit that now no one knows what this group is for. If it is for legitimate discussion of biology and is announced as such then I suspect some of us would use it. If it is for rantings and ravings of creationists and their oponents then I'll continue to ignore it. I would submit that given a definition which does not try to combine emotional argument issues with scientific issues, it would be used. As it is, neither group uses it. Jack Buchanan Medicine and Bioengineering University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb