Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!unc!bch From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) Newsgroups: net.bio,net.news.group Subject: Re: net.bio -- A Failure Message-ID: <6878@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 23:03:11 EST Article-I.D.: unc.6878 Posted: Sun Mar 4 23:03:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 02:13:43 EST References: <2637@alice.UUCP> Organization: University of North Carolina Comp. Center Lines: 18 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)