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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.bio,sci.physics,bionet.general
Subject: Re: Call for discussion on chemistry newsgroups
Message-ID: <3701@phri.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 03:03:02 GMT
References: <1951@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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[Note: the original Newsgroups: line included "bionet.followup" which, as
far as I know, is not a valid group; I've changed it to bionet.general]

In article <1951@cps3xx.UUCP> cook@frith.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes:
> I posted an article in sci.misc and news.groups about starting a new group
> for chemistry.  I have only seen one reply to that article.

	I would assume, therefore, that nobody is interested.

> I envision four new news.groups for this subject [...] Chem.org, Chem.inorg,
> Chem.phys, Chem.analyt.

	Egad, he can only find one person who is interested in chemistry at
all, and he wants to form 4 new groups all at once!  My suggestion is to just
use the existing sci.misc group for now.  Bionet is "officially" for talk
about biology, but I don't think people would be too worked up if you posted
your chemisty discussions to bionet.general; biologists have been known, on
occassion, to talk about chemistry.

	Maybe the thing to do is to form a mailing list.  If you are trying to
find people who are interested in being on the list, I don't think it would be
a breach of net ettiquette to post a single "mailing list forming, sign up
now" type article to many newsgroups.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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