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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.biology
Message-ID: <539@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 13:00:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 13:00:10 1983
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 >> One last request: If such a group is started up, please let us try to
 >> restrict its use to serious science. Socio-political discussions are best
 >> put in net.flame, net.religion, net.misc, or any other group that I don't
 >> subscribe to.
 >> 				..!cvl!elsie!mark

This sounds a lot like the argument that led to the creation of
net.astro.expert (or even net.women.only! :-> ).  I sometimes
wonder about the elitist trend in certain newsgroups, but I suppose
I've got no real objection as long as interested non-experts have a
place to discuss things, too.  After all, not all of us want to
talk about analysis of two-dimensional gel electrophoretograms --
some of us are interested in things like evolution, population
genetics, or wildlife biology.

(I agree, by the way, that flaming non-scientific harangues would have
no place in net.biology.  I just wanted to point out that I, for one,
would enjoy a middle ground between "serious science" and "socio-political
discussions".)
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Prentiss Riddle
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