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From: Kristofferson@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: The Art of Starting Discussions
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Date: 19 May 89 12:04:16 GMT
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>I have been thinking about the concept of an electronic journal for some time.
>Something that could easily be distributed (like e-mail), but that would be 
>complete, like a journal article.  I think that I have a few good ideas, and
>am in the process of getting them going.  My question is this.... do you think
>that something like this would catch on, or would it just not be used, mcuh
>like much of the network facilities we now have.

Keith,

	My hope is that longer term this will indeed happen,
particularly when more people have high speed network connections and
the ability to pass graphics back and forth.  It is not science
fiction at all to envision journals being distributed in electronic
form and being read on high resolution graphics terminals.  I would
wager that we will easily see this in our lifetime.  I have tried on
several occasions to get well known scientists to moderate the current
newsgroups but with only limited success.  However use of the
facilities has been almost doubling for each of the last few years, so
there is still reason for optimism.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIONET Resource Manager

				kristofferson@bionet-20.bio.net

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