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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: call for discussion : SCI.PALEONTOLOGY
Summary: A yes vote for sci.paleontology and a comment about the possible charter
Message-ID: <25349@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 15:50:39 GMT
References: <1031@athen.sinix.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <1031@athen.sinix.UUCP>, es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes:
> On behalf of friends having only read access to the net (so far) I want to ask
> for the possibility of creating a group dealing with paleontology.
> ........ 
> I would appreciate comments about the following questions:
> - does  the request for creation seem justified
> - would there be enough traffic to make it worth while

I would be very interested in reading such a group.  I am not
likely to contribute and cannot comment on the likely level of
traffic.  I think a lot of people have a general interest in 
the topic who are not paleontologists, and who have no interest
in other biological topics.

The charter of the group should explicitly exclude creationist discussions,
which will otherwise overwhelm the group.  There is already a talk.
group covering this with a very low signal/noise ratio.

-- 
 I'm not afraid of dying     Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas
 I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,emx,noao}!utastro!ethan
 there when it happens.      (arpanet) ethan@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
    - Woody Allen            (bitnet) ethan%astro.as.utexas.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

These must be my opinions.  Who else would bother?