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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.bio -- A Failure
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 23:03:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  4 23:03:11 1984
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There were several peculiarities about the creation of net.bio, at least
from this area of the net, which may explain its lack of use.  First,
I don't remember any announcement of its creation.  It simply appeared
one day (who knows how long before that the create item came though.)
Second, it was not created on all machines.  One of the majore contri-
butors to the creation/evolution debate could not submit to the group
so I, probably like many, continued to submit to net.misc until the
situation stabilized.  We don't know yet whether this group is
available on all machines.  I suspect we will find more problems of this
kind as USENET continues its slow decline due to increasing load on
already overburdened machines and communications links.
-- 

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

					   Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
				  ({decvax,akgua}!mcnc!unc!bch)