In article <1g30tqINNss1 at MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>, smith-una at yale.edu (Una Smith) writes:
>> ... establishing voting rules for the bionet groups last year. I think the
> rules are good and necessary, but they weren't designed with the transfer of
> pre-existing groups in mind.
What's the problem? If you have 40 friends who want a news group, WHAM you
have it very quickly! That's how we started bionet.info-theory so quickly - it
was a group of people with a mailing list already in existence. It's much
better than having all those unused news groups hanging around, like
bionet.bork.bork.swedish.meat.ball (which was still there last time I looked
;-)!
Tom Schneider
National Cancer Institute
Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
toms at ncifcrf.gov
