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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
Subject: Re: The Bio-Matrix: another view
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Date: 17 Dec 90 17:17:44 GMT
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In article <9012161930.AA01512@tome.media.mit.edu> mike@TOME.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
(Michael Hawley) writes:
> Of all the bulletin board groups I've seen, this one seems to have by far the
> highest ratio of "What this bboard is" to content.  Not sure why bio-people
> seem so introspective.

I think it's because the topic has not yet 'caught fire'.  People don't know
what to say on the group, so nobody says anything, even though many people may
be 'listening'.  The postings may eventually spark a discussion about the
topic.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov