From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: net.health - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.541
Posted: Tue Dec 14 18:01:23 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 05:23:53 1982

#R:seismo:-17500:hp-pcd:5000006:000:1069
hp-pcd!courtney    Dec 14 12:27:00 1982


A group for sharing information about health hazards is
very appropriate in this day and age.  The level of "health"
(or sickness) in our society is quickly becoming a significant
factor in our quality of life.  Both the economic and social
costs associated with health care have some obscure and
far-reaching causes, making this topic prime for discussion!

A comment for those who resist the addition of new groups:
   Having a wide variety of well-defined topics in
   individual groups helps to make information more
   readily available to those who use the net.
   I realize that there is overhead associated with
   a large number of groups, but that should be a
   managable problem and shouldn't stifle the
   improvement of the usefulness of the network.
   As an example, groups would be used more effectively
   if there was a way to find a particular topic without
   searching through the long list of randomly-ordered
   group titles...perhaps a tree structure would provide
   a solution?
   Anyway, let's not stifle experimentation with new groups...